Background: While the COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally, health systems are overwhelmed by both direct and indirect mortality from other treatable conditions. vaccination was crucial to preventing eliminating disease, so vaccine development for fast-tracked worldwide. Despite fact that is commonly recognized as most effective approach, according World Health Organization (WHO), hesitancy a ...

In 1974, the Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act required reporting of child abuse in all states. Although nurses have since this time been designated as mandated reporters of abuse, only recently have nurses begun to hold positions where they are directly responsible for abuse reporting. This study investigated whether the gender of the victim, the gender of the abusing parent, or...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review the prevalence, incidence, and risks of smoking by American women; to outline services, treatments, and educational options for smoking prevention and cessation; and to present the conceptual link between the epidemiologic and research literature and experiences of one individual in the target population--an adult female former smoker with a 30-year habit who began ...

BACKGROUND: Nurses as health workers at the frontline have major challenges in dealing with COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic can cause risk of psychological changes nurses maintaining quality public services. AIM: This study aims to explore nurses’ experiences through their when giving treatment patients. DESIGN AND METHOD: qualitative research employed a phenomenological approach. Purposive sam...

The absence of ordinary women from histories of science and technology may be partially explained by what has been excluded as science, as well as who have been excluded as women of science. Although the delegation of medical technology to Ontario nurses increased rapidly during the mid-twentieth century, we know very little regarding how these ordinary women engaged in science and medical tech...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the factors associated with the underreporting on the part of nurses within Primary Health Care of abuse against children and adolescents. METHOD cross-sectional study with 616 nurses. A questionnaire addressed socio-demographic data, profession, instrumentation and knowledge on the topic, identification and reporting of abuse cases. Bivariate and multivariate logistic re...

Violence in the workplace refers to any threat, physical and/or psychological in nature, that is directed toward a person while at work. A report by the International Labour Organization concluded that workplace violence has increased dramatically throughout the world in recent decades. Among all occupational groups, health care personnel is a major target or victim of workplace violence. The r...