AIMS This paper is based on a review of the Australian and International literature relating to the nursing-medical division of labour. It also explores how the division of labour affects patient access to emergency care in small rural health services in Victoria, Australia. BACKGROUND The paper describes the future Australian health workforce and the implications for rural Victoria. The conc...

In 1989 the Catholic Health Association, in conjunction with the University of Iowa Center for Health Services Research, surveyed chief executive officers (CEOs) of rural hospitals regarding their hospital's viability and strategic behaviors and orientations. An extensive questionnaire was sent to the CEOs of all Catholic, all other religious not-for-profit, and all investor-owned rural hospita...

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) implemented a swing-bed demonstration and evaluation program for rural communities in the 1970's. The demonstration substantiated the cost effectiveness of providing long-term care in small, rural, acute care hospitals. As a result, Section 904 of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-499) authorized the national swing-bed program,...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate effect of access to health facilities on the health status of rural households at Kermanshah Province. Statistical pupation of this study consisted of all heads of rural households at Bisotoun district in Harsin Township, Kermanshah Province, Iran (N=1020), that 278 of them were selected by the cluster random sampling method. The main instrument...

introduction: rapid urbanization and reduction of rural population are common problems among developing countries. unemployment and rural migration are mentioned as main reasons for these problems. according to the 2011 census in iran, the rural population decreased to less than one-third, or about 29 percent of total population. demographic change of the country and the need for jobs will exac...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to describe policies on early elective delivery (EED) and vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) in rural US maternity hospitals and to measure whether hospital policies differ by staffing, facilities, or birth volume. METHODS Data came from a telephone survey, conducted among all rural maternity hospitals in nine US states from November 2013 to March 2...

AIM To re-examine and expand understanding of the concept 'lack of anonymity' as a component of rural nursing theory. BACKGROUND Early healthcare literature reports lack of anonymity as part of social and working environments, particularly rural nursing. Rural nursing theory included the first published concept analysis on lack of anonymity but lacked empirical referents. Workforce, societal ...

The paper chronicles exploratory research in the domain of hospital electronic health records (EHR) adoption with a view to establishing a foundation for additional research. After reviewing the literature on technology integration within hospitals and health information exchange, the paper includes a review of the adoption and use of EHR by hospitals in southern US states to determine if anoma...