OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the views of allied health and nursing staff on supporting the communication of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and complex communication needs (CCN) in hospital. METHOD We conducted 12 focus groups with 49 community- and hospital-based allied health professionals and hospital nurses. RESULTS Participants reported having active roles in supporting childre...

OBJECTIVE Analyzing the policy transfer of directly observed treatment of tuberculosis from the perspective of nursing. METHOD This is a descriptive study with qualitative approach, which had 10 nurses of the Family Health Strategy in São Paulo as subjects. The interviews were carried out between May and June 2013, and were adopted the technique of thematic content analysis and the referentia...

This paper explores Community Child Health (CCH) nurses' experience of home visits for new mothers in a health service region of Western Australia. Reported benefits of home visits include improvement in maternal and child health and better parenting skills leading to positive maternal-child interaction. Despite CCH nurses' support for home visits factors such as costs, lack of resources and st...

OBJECTIVE To compare 3 methods of clinical assessment of jaundice in newborns by home health nurses. DESIGN Prospective clinical trial. SETTING Homes of newborns living within 10 miles of a 340-bed community hospital where they were delivered. PARTICIPANTS Home health nurses and newborn patients (< or =2 weeks old). INTERVENTIONS The nurses examined the newborns and documented whether t...

Donna Erickson Wehner, Laurel Highlands Chapter, is Public Health Program Coordinator, Office of Community Health, Memorial Medical Center, Conemaugh Health System, Johnstown, Pa, and Emergency Department Staff Nurse, Windber Medical Center, Conemaugh Health System, Windber, Pa. Lori Sutton is Public Health Analyst, Office of Community Health, Memorial Medical Center, Conemaugh Health System, J...

This was a qualitative study with the purpose of designing a meta-model for the work process of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) team. It was based on the experience of six sample groups, composed of their members (physicians, professional nurses, dentists, dental assistants, licensed technical nurses and community health agents) in a city in São Paulo state, Brazil, totaling 54 subjects. Six t...

The Department of Health (2005) consultation document Best Research for Best Health: A New National Health Service Research Strategy offers both opportunities for the future development of nursing research and threats to its future. Lessons from the history of health research reforms in the UK suggest that it will take time for any benefits to become obvious and that only some members of the re...

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measuring health related quality of life of old people has become an important public health issue with the aging of population in developing countries. the aim of this study was to examine the health related quality of life of old people living in bandar abbas, iran. this was a population-based study in which a random sample of 1000 individuals of the community aged over 60 years were intervie...