Although rich cumulative evidence exists on nursing's effectiveness, few policymakers and healthcare executives apparently are familiar with it. To make such scientific-based knowledge more available so that it can be considered and integrated in healthcare policy and reform, the WHO Collaborating ...
Denise is an RGN and has been teaching specialist nursing for more than eight years. One of the biggest challenges in health today is balancing cost with care. This lesson gives examples of strategies being used to achieve this cost-effectively, including patient profiling, systems thinking, evid...
mosques, temples, and community centers. This is because they are often large enough to accommodate large numbers of people, while also being strong and long-lasting enough to withstand heavy use over time. Some examples of these types of buildings include: ...
UbiCare may also issue alarms to authorized caregivers (e.g., relatives and/or doctors) in the event of fall detection, thereby improving the achievable level of security and ensuring immediate nursing treatment of such incidents; alarms may be implemented by a variety of methods, e.g., ...
(such as further defined in non-limiting fashion to include healthcare facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes and in addition to individual physicians or various general/specialized practice groups) by, in large part, tying compensation to adherence to the best practices standards and ...
This can also be applied to elder people in nursing homes or at their comfortable home [3]. During the current pandemic of COVID-19 as a newly wide spread virus with high infection rate, isolating the patients is a very important step. Due to the increased number of patients with limited...
pp 141–153 Cite this chapter Infection Control in the ICU Environment Marin H. Kollef M.D. Part of the book series:Perspectives on Critical Care Infectious Diseases((CCID,volume 5)) 210Accesses Abstract Nosocomial infections add significant costs to individual hospitalizations. They are estimated ...
In an effort to find alternatives to the current abandonment of the nursing-home patient, a project was started for the purpose of testing the cost effectiveness of other forms of primary care, i.e., care delivered by the nurse practitioner and the social worker. The goal of the three-...
nursing continuityhealth care consumptioncognition disordersactivities of daily livingHip fracture treatment and rehabilitation are often considered as separate issues and generally performed in different locations. The rapidly increasing proportion of patients that is old and very old now calls for a new ...
International Congress on Nursing Informatics.Tu MH, Chang P. Developing a cost-effective home care management support system for small nursing homes in Taiwan. Stud Health Technol Inform 2009;146:703e4.Tu MH, Chang P. Developing a cost-effective home care management support system for small ...