This study aims to analyze the effect of clinical leadership (quality self, collaboration, managing services, improving service quality and setting goals) on nursing services at University Hospital North Sumatra. The method used is a cross-sectional survey 94 respondents. results showed that p-value for self-quality variable was 0.000, 0.001 improved 0.004 services. In conclusion, there an self...

Margaret E.A. Black, RN, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at McMaster University and a public health consultant at the Healthy Lifestyles and Youth Branch of the City of Hamilton Public Health Services, Angela Frisina, RN, MHSc, is a public health nurse at the Healthy Lifestyles and Youth Branch of the City of Hamilton Public Health Services, Trisha Hack, RN, BScN, is a p...

This paper describes a nursing robot system that is called DO-U-MI developed for helping elderly and disabled people. For that purpose, the nursing robot system has a capability to assist elderly and disabled people to move independently in indoor environments such as a nursing home. It also provides a convenient man-machine interface for easy usage and various entertainment services for users....

BACKGROUND Professionalism in nursing means the provision of medical and nursing services based on the best knowledge and skills, as well as on great responsibility for the undertaken actions. The opinions of patients and their families concerning professionalism, reflected in the level of satisfaction, contribute to the improvement of the quality of services offered. MATERIAL AND METHODS The...

The focus of this article is the impact of nursing home care on total Medicare and Medicaid expenditures for the aged population entitled to both programs. To determine these costs for 1981, data in the Health Care Financing Administration's Medicare Statistical System were linked, for the first time, to data in the Medicaid system for four States. Also examined are expenditure patterns for sur...

When I mention to people that I work full time in a nursing home, I often see reflected on their faces a measure of thedistaste that society has for nursing homes. I suspect tax collectors experience a similar phenomenon. As a geriatrician, I recognize that nursing homes are a necessity for some, but that nursing home placement implies a series of trade-offs of cost and institutional environmen...

Niam Yaraghi is a Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation. He is an expert on the economics of health information technologies. Nearly two million Americans spend an average of 835 days of their lives in one of the 15,700 nursing home facilities in the United States (National Center for Health Statistics 2009). The Department of Health and Human Services estimates...

PURPOSE This paper is a report of the results of a literature review conducted with the goal of identifying the nursing process components: assessment, diagnoses, interventions and outcomes related to health promotion in adults with hypertension in primary settings. METHODS A search of MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PantherCat Online Catalogue of UWM database, PsycInfo, Cochrane Database, and Social Se...