Smoking Habits Of Health Care Professionals In A District General Hospital (DGH) Two Years After Smoking Ban

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed M.H. Kazmi ◽  
Sagar Patel ◽  
Laura Watkins ◽  
Gurinder Tack ◽  
Robert J. Stead ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Smoking Habits ◽  
Smoking Ban

Investigating the Attitudes of Health-Care Professionals towards the Use of Integrated Care Pathways in a District General Hospital: A Thematic Analysis of Focus Group Discussion

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Claridge ◽  
Dianne Parker ◽  
Gary Cook
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussion ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Integrated Care Pathways

Context: Integrated care pathways (ICPs) are an increasingly common approach to the standardization and integration of health-care practice in the NHS. They delineate interdisciplinary critical decision points and evidence-based daily treatment regimens for patients in specific disease groups. ICP champions assert that they have the potential to decrease medical errors, increase the accuracy of data capture, increase the efficiency of personnel and ultimately improve the quality of patient care. Despite the theoretical benefits of ICP use, there was anecdotal evidence of staff unease and audit evidence of variable compliance with ICPs at a district general hospital (DGH). Objective: This focus group study was one of the three interdependent methodologies used to investigate the attitudes of health-care professionals towards ICPs in a DGH. It was anticipated that thematic analysis of the focus group discussion would facilitate further the interpretation of qualitative data already analysed in a previous phase of the project, and inform the development of a survey questionnaire investigating the attitudes of the health-care professionals towards ICPs. Design: Ten focus groups comprising on average, six health-care professionals were conducted. The staff involved included doctors, nurses, professions allied to medicine, a member of the Community Health Council and non-clinical managers. The focus groups included staff with a range of seniority and speciality. Results: Analysis of the data achieved facilitated the confirmation and identification of themes underpinning the focus group discussion. These are reported here and illustrated by representative quotations. Conclusion: The focus group study provided a valuable insight into the attitudes regarding ICPs of over 60 health-care professionals. The themes identified were used to facilitate the development of a survey questionnaire to explore them in a quantifiable way. Focus group methodology proved to be a useful way to explore emerging issues in depth, and to observe areas of disagreement among staff.

scholarly journals Knowledge and attitude of health care professional’s towards clinical pharmacy services in Nedjo General Hospital, Western Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginenus Fekadu ◽  
Busha Gamachu ◽  
Teklie Mengie ◽  
Mudasir Maqbool
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Clinical Pharmacy ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Clinical Pharmacy Service ◽  
Pharmacy Services ◽  
Clinical Pharmacy Services ◽  
Significant Difference

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Clinical pharmacy service (CPS) is an expanding patient-oriented, hospital role with the potential for encroachment on the physician's role. In large part, the success of CPS will depend on the degree to which other health professionals accept the concept and are willing to cooperate with its disciples. Unfortunately, our information about the degree of knowledge regarding acceptance and reaction toward clinical pharmacy by other health workers is meager.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> A cross sectional study design was carried out by using self–administered questionnaires on 110 health care professionals (HCP) in Nedjo General Hospital 10th March to 10th April, 2018.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> From the total respondents 91 (82.7%) were males and majority of them were nurses 46 (41.8%) followed by midwifes 23 (20.9%). This study showed that 67 (60.9%) of the HCPs had a good knowledge and 67.3% of the HCPs had a positive attitude about CPS. There was no significant difference between the HCPs knowledge of clinical pharmacy services in relation to their sex (p=0.744), age (p=0.313), profession (p=0.997), level of education (p=0.509), and experience (p=0.553). Regarding HCPs’ attitude of CPs role, there was no significant difference in relation to their sex (p=0.588), age (p=0.144), profession (p=0.059) and experience (p=0.394). However, the study revealed that there was a significant difference (p=0.009) between HCPs attitude and level education of HCPs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Majority of the HCPs had a good knowledge and a positive attitude towards CPS. Attention should focus to hospitals to implement ward based CPS and increasing inter-professional relationships between HCPs and pharmacists. </p>

Kidney organ donation knowledge and attitudes among health care professionals: Findings from a Greek general hospital

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanouil K. Symvoulakis ◽  
Zoi Tsimtsiou ◽  
Stamatis Papaharitou ◽  
Dimitra Palitzika ◽  
Adelais Markaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Organ Donation ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes

scholarly journals Psychogeriatric Liaison: A Service to a District General Hospital

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 312-314
Author(s):  
R. M. Fraser ◽  
Rosemary Healy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Liaison Psychiatry ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Health Care Institutions

Liaison psychiatry has been an influential element in hospital psychiatric practice for over a decade now. It is concerned with the ‘diagnosis, treatment, study, and prevention of psychiatric disorders among patients in non-psychiatric health care institutions, especially in general hospitals’. This paper describes and evaluates a project in which the principles of liaison psychiatry were incorporated into a psychogeriatric service.

scholarly journals Triage Knowledge of Emergency Rooms Nurses at Dr Soetomo Regional General Hospital

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Fariza Nur Aini Widyani ◽  
April Poerwanto Basuki ◽  
Djohar Nuswantoro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Room ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Referral Hospital ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Emergency Room Nurses

Introduction: Triage is a system to sort patients based on their urgency for care during an emergency. In addition, to determine patient’s severity, triage reduces time wasted and overcrowding in the emergency room.1 Triage errors such as over-triage or under-triage must not exceed 35% and 5% of the total numbers of patients respectively. Dr. Soetomo General Hospital of Surabaya with its status as one of type “A” hospital in Indonesia that has good amenities, facilities, and infrastructures which is also the main referral hospital from Primary or Secondary Health Care, is prone to patients overcrowding. The high number of patients and the demands for high-quality service as the main referral hospital require higher qualification from health care professionals in term of cognitive, skills, and attitude. Objective: This study conducted to evaluate the level of knowledge of the ER (Emergency Room) nurses at Dr. Soetomo General Hospital in 2019 towards triage. Methods and Materials: This study is a quantitative descriptive study using a validated questionnaire with 32 nurses as the samples. Results and Discussion: Demographic profile showed that majority of nurses are: female (52%), age 26 – 35 years old (46 %), graduated from D3 (61%), have been working in this field for >15 years (46%), attended Basic Life Support Training (33%), and have moderate knowledge in triage (61%). Conclusion: Emergency room nurses of Dr Soetomo General Hospital had adequate knowledge in triage. The researcher considers there might be some factors influencing nurse’s knowledge in triage.

scholarly journals Implementation of integration strategies between primary care units and a regional general hospital in Brazil to update and connect health care professionals: a quasi-experimental study protocol

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Maia Bracco ◽  
Ana Carolina Cintra Nunes Mafra ◽  
Alexandre Hannud Abdo ◽  
Fernando Antonio Basile Colugnati ◽  
Marcello Dala Bernardina Dalla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Study Protocol ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Integration Strategies
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