The Socio-Cultural Effects of Banning Traditional Midwives from Attending Homebirth in Romania by Adina Hulubas

“…In hospitals, however, rituals are maintained under the intention of purifying nurses from unclean birth, while granny-midwife became a role, a character usually played by the mother of the woman in parturition. …”
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Real-time seizure detection in paediatric intensive care patients: the RESET child brain protocol by Kristen Gibbons, Andreas Schibler, Anthony Slater, Louise Sparkes, Michaela Waak, Stephen Malone, Jane Harnischfeger, Sandra Gurr

“…Trained bedside clinical nurses will interpret the QEEG. Seizure events will be marked as seizures if >3 QEEG criteria occur. …”
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Equity and efficiency of public health resource allocation in China by Minghua Zhou

“…Results The Theil index of public health resource allocation by population in China ranges from 0.006 to 0.049, and the Theil index contribution rate of the number of beds, health technicians, licensed (assistant) physicians, and registered nurses within region is less than 28.76%. The Theil index of public health resource allocation by geography in China ranges from 0.274 to 0.624, and the Theil index contribution rate of the number of institutions, the number of beds, health technicians, licensed (assistant) physicians, and registered nurses within region is more than 77.05%. …”
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Assessing the application of adapted theory of planned behaviour in predicting postpartum family planning intentions in a pragmatic randomized control trial in Western Kenya. by Morris Senghor Shisanya, Mary Kipmerewo, Everlyne Morema, Collins Ouma

“…Trained nurses and Community Health Workers (CHW) delivered counseling in their respective arms, while the control arm received routine care. …”
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Perceptions of healthcare professionals on the use of a risk prediction model to inform atrial fibrillation screening: qualitative interview study in English primary care by Chris Gale, Jianhua Wu, Ramesh Nadarajah, Catherine Reynolds, Ellen Hamilton, Lydia Shone

“…Data were thematically analysed and synthesised to understand barriers and facilitators to AF screening and guiding screening using risk assessment.Setting Five primary care practices in England taking part in the FIND-AF study.Participants 15 HCPs (doctors, nurses/nurse practitioners, healthcare assistants, receptionists and practice managers).Results Participants knew the health implications of AF and were supportive of the risk prediction models for AF screening. …”
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Diagnosing and managing patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a consensus survey by Christi Deaton, Robin Fox, Ian Wellwood, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Katherine Brown, Sharon Dixon, Thomas Blakeman, Alistair Brown, Julie Smith, Nick Thomas, Adam Jones, Basilio Hernandez-Diaz, Christopher Keast, Heather Rutter, Kyle Knox, Matthew Gaw, Nick Wooding, Christine A'Court, Hannah Swayze, Helen Ashdown, Victoria Glover, Rosalynn Austin, Eva Khair, Muhammad Zakir Hossain, Emma Sowden, Faye Forsyth, Mollika Chakravorty, Sophie Maclachlan, Edward Kane, Jessica Odone, Natasha Thorley, Susana Borja-Boluda, Muhammed Hossain, John Sharpley, Brain Gordon, Joanna Taffe, Aaron Long, Affan Aziz, Chris Schramm, Sine MacDonald, Helena Papworth, Craig Needs, David Cronk, Chris Newark, Duncan Blake, Amman Basuita, Emma Gayton, Jonathan Crawshaw, Rachael Ayerst, Shamila Wanninayake, Elisabetta Angeleri-Rand

“…Opinions differed between GPs (52.3)% and specialists (HFSN 80% and cardiologists 81.3%) for practice nurses to be upskilled and assume HFpEF management. …”
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A Hepatitis C Educational Needs Assessment of Canadian Healthcare Providers by Reza Naghdi, Karen Seto, Carolyn Klassen, Didi Emokpare, Brian Conway, Melissa Kelley, Eric Yoshida, Hemant A. Shah

“…Physicians most frequently screened patients who had abnormal liver enzymes, while nurses tended to screen based on lifestyle factors. …”
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A WeChat-Based Mobile Platform for Perioperative Health Education for Gastrointestinal Surgery by Ying Li, Xiao-hui Cheng, Wen-ting Xu, Li-ping Tan, Xiao-jun Gou

“…Here, we embedded health education information of the perioperative period for gastrointestinal surgery on a WeChat-based mobile platform and evaluated the platform through medical staff evaluation, patient volunteer evaluation, and quantitative grading rubric. Clinicians and nurses believed that the mobile platform was attractively designed and easy to navigate, valuable, and adequate for patient health education. …”
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Willingness to Adopt Telemedicine in Major Iraqi Hospitals: A Pilot Study by Mohd Khanapi Abd Ghani, Mustafa Musa Jaber

“…The Iraqi healthcare services are struggling to regain their lost momentum. Many physicians and nurses left Iraq because of the current situation in the country. …”
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Nouveau métier : enseignant dans le second degré. Récits de changements professionnels by Sylvie Dozolme, Luc Ria

“…Coming from a wide range of different professions (warehouseman, secretary, nurse, engineer, salesman…), they undergo a fairly radical adjustment period. …”
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Prevalence and exposure variables of latent infection by mycobacterium tuberculosis in healthcare workers by Raphael Sampaio dos Santos, Katerine Moraes dos Santos, Angela Maria Mendes Abreu, Cristiane Cardoso de Paula, Regina Célia Gollner Zeitoune

“…Results: Being a physician or nurse, being older, and being male were generally associated with higher prevalences. …”
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Composer avec l’expectation actorielle dans la relation chercheur-acteurs by Julien de Miribel

“…It states a self-analysis of the researcher’s posture while he has to deal with an expectation expressed by some actors of the field, psychiatric nurse-tutors. The reaction to these expectations led him to take part in working days bringing together these tutors and to give them back some research data concerning them. …”
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Who calls the shots in Naomi's life? Reading the Naomi-Ruth story within the African religio-cultural context

“…Such a worldview, in which the Sacred Other, the living and the (living) dead formed an integral whole, can also be observed at critical points in Naomi’s life: when Naomi bid farewell to her daughters-in-law (Rt 1:8-9); Naomi’s confession about Yahweh’s faithfulness to both the living and the dead (Rt 2:20); Naomi’s plan to seek security for Ruth through “levirate” marriage (Rt 3:1), and when she acted as a nurse to Mahlon’s son (Rt 4:5, 16). Basing one’s arguments on the apparent resemblances between the world view in which the narrative of Ruth is embedded and the African (Northern Sotho) world view, how may it be far-fetched to argue that the dead (males) called the shots in Naomi’s life? …”
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Research progress of assessment tool and prevention of incontinence-associated dermatitis (失禁相关性皮炎评估工具和预防的研究进展) by MIAO Wenjing (苗文静), GUO Fengjuan (郭凤娟), CHEN Liuwen (陈柳文)

“…Based on the reviewing the relevant studies, this paper summarized the research progress of assessment tool and prevention of incontinence-associated dermatitis, in order to provide reference for clinical nurse to improve the accuracy in diagnosis and early intervention on IAD. …”
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A randomized controlled trial to study the efficacy of 1% vs. 2% lignocaine in topical airway anesthesia in routine bronchoscopy procedures by Danny Prasad, Prince James, Richa Gupta

“…The cough VAS scores evaluated by the bronchoscopist (31.4 vs. 34.5 [p − 0.116]), respiratory nurse (31.3 vs. 34.3 [p − 0.182]), and therapist (31.7 vs. 34.3 [p − 0.209]) were slightly higher in the 1% arm. …”
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Health professionals’ willingness to share responsibility and strengthen interprofessional collaboration: a cross-sectional survey by Sophie Karoline Brandt, Stefan Essig, Andreas Balthasar

“…Medical practice assistants (52.3%) and nurses (46.8%) were highly willing to relinquish responsibility, less so pharmacists (34.2%) and physiotherapists (37.8%); doctors were torn between high (49.2%) and neither high nor low willingness (38%). …”
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A pilot program to improve TB care with primary and specialty care coordination in TB public health clinic by P. Jadhav, G. Boudoin, R. Miles, S. Seymour, J. Parham, A. Wolfe, J. Ali

“…METHODS: Data collection involved categorizing patients based on their PC status: Group I (regular PC), Group II (intermittent PC), and Group III (no PC), with on-site Nurse Practitioner-based Bridge Care (NPBC) provided as needed. …”
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Iatrogenic Hypotension Induced by the Improper Treatment of Normal Grief by Kyle E. Robinson

“…After developing symptoms of chest pain, intermittent tachycardia, and widespread pain when he would think of his children in the weeks following their loss, he was prescribed gabapentin, lisinopril, and metoprolol by a general practice nurse. He subsequently developed dizziness, lightheadedness, and fatigue. …”
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Fatigue Status in Relation to Lifestyle in Healthy Japanese Adolescents by Ning Zou, Masaru Kubota, Eriko Kuruma, Chiaki Kojima, Ayako Nagai

“…After adjusting for age and gender, multiple regression analysis showed that physical and mental fatigue scores were associated with sleeping hours, extracurricular sports activity, food balance, the frequencies of snacks between regular meals, intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, and visits to the nurse's room. This paper is the first large cross-sectional study on fatigue in healthy adolescents in Japan, albeit there were numerous such studies in Western countries.…”
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A Client-Server and Web-Based Graphical User Interface Design for the Mathematical Model of Cardiovascular-Respiratory System by Theogene Bizimungu, Domonique Harelimana, Jean Marie Ntaganda

“…Those parameters are computerized to generate automatic results in a graphic representation, which is an effective way used in medicine to allow physicians, nurses, and other experienced health personnel to analyze and discuss results. …”
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