INTRODUCTION The boarding of admitted patients in the emergency department (ED) is a major cause of crowding and access block. One solution is boarding admitted patients in inpatient ward (W) hallways. This study queried and compared ED and W nurses' opinions toward ED and W boarding. It also assessed their preferred boarding location if they were patients. METHODS A survey administered to a ...

Currently more than half the population of Uganda is under 18 years - a demographic dispensation caused by civil war, poverty, high fertility rates, and the AIDS epidemic. Drawing upon ethnographic research in south-eastern Uganda, the study analyses the difficulties of integrating increasing numbers of adolescent orphans and other vulnerable children into Ugandan society. Aid workers and resea...

The story is not new. America’s emergency departments (EDs) are frequently overcrowded, their ability to provide high quality emergency care compromised by lack of space and required attention to admitted patients boarding in the ED, awaiting a hospital bed upstairs. We first experienced ED boarding as residents where signouts were along the lines of: “Sixty-year-old male, sign-out of a sign-ou...

BACKGROUND Although 10% of Israeli youth live in boarding schools, few studies, except for those focusing on mental health, have examined the well-being of this population subgroup. Thus, the aims of this study were to explore: (1) the prevalence rates of five aspects of well-being (i.e., healthy habits, avoidance of risky behaviors, peer relationships, adult relationships, and school environme...

  Background: The employees of welfare centers, due to the special conditions of their work, may be exposed to excessive occupational stress and workload . Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of workload and occupational stress on the general health of female employees of public welfare centers.   Materials and Methods: This was a correlational research on 63 fe...

Executive Summary After mathematically analyzing the aircraft boarding problem, our modeling group would like to present our conclusions, strategies, and recommendations to the airline industry. We examined the mathematical effects of waiting in line to board, sending in different groupings of seat assignments, and the interaction between various components of the boarding process to determine ...

Wakaf is a Maliyah worship that have tight relation with development of umat welfare. It in the form social economy. The potential wakaf huge nowadays however it does not use optimally yet because some factors so cannot give maximum role bringing welfare for society and empowering society’s only support science but also prepare all facilities needed by students university or society. Modern Boa...

Optimizing the boarding process is one way for the airline industry to reduce the cost of the total air plane turn time i.e. the time between landing and take off. For this aim, boarding strategies that control when a passenger is allowed to board the plane are developed in order to reduce the overall boarding time. These strategies should be passenger friendly and robust to all kinds of distur...