scholarly journals Knowledge and Utilization of Information Technology Among Health Care Professionals and Students in Ile-Ife, Nigeria: A Case Study of a University Teaching Hospital

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. e45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim S Bello ◽  
Fatiu A Arogundade ◽  
Abubakr A Sanusi ◽  
Ikechi T Ezeoma ◽  
Emmanuel A Abioye-Kuteyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
University Teaching

Managing Change in Health Care: A Case of UTHI

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Ifedapo Adeleye ◽  
Abayomi Sule ◽  
Shola Tobun
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
West African ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
First Choice ◽  
Training Research ◽  
World Class ◽  
The Government

The 1970s saw the establishment of University Teaching Hospital Ibadan (UTHI) as a hospital of eminence with lofty vision: ‘To be the flagship tertiary health care institution in the West African sub-region: offering world-class training, research and services and the first choice hospital’. It indeed kept its promise to emerge as the main teaching hospital of the country. The 1990s witnessed the decline. The Government of Nigeria appointed Vesta Healthcare Partners to advise on transformation and sustainability. A number of suggestions of far-reaching consequences came up. These involved restructuring and the reporting system; motivational initiatives; offer of opportunities to those who showed performance; recognition to performance; installation of performance measurement metrics; remuneration system; and more. The case study describes at length the challenges before Professor Temi, who has recently joined as the Chief Medical Director of UTHI and who has to handle the implementation of the recommendations. Simultaneously, he has to arrive at decisions in areas of conflicts.

Nurses’ Ethical Perceptions of Health Care and of Medical Clinical Research: an audit in a French university teaching hospital

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghislaine Benhamou-Jantelet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Clinical Situation ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Few Data ◽  
Nurses Knowledge

Very few data exist in France on: (1) nurses’ knowledge and behaviour concerning ethical decisions in clinical practice; and (2) their knowledge of ethical rules in clinical research. This questionnaire-based audit tried mainly to assess these questions in a large French university teaching hospital. Of the 257 questionnaires distributed to nurses in 23 clinical units of the hospital, 206 were returned (80% response rate). When responding to the vignette describing a clinical situation requiring an ethical decision to be made, most nurses acted as the patient’s advocate although they have had no formal training in ethics. Indeed, 66% of nurses responding considered that the patients themselves should be the primary decision makers in situations that relate to their health and medical care. For children or comatose patients, the decision should be left to the relatives according to 72% of the responses. The results indicated that the role of health care professionals in ethical decisions made for a given patient should be marginal. Nurses’ knowledge concerning research protocols, particularly their ethical requirements and consequences, is poor at present and information from and communication with doctors should be improved.

Improvements in Web Based ERP Software Architecture as Implemented on the Cloud

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Shruti Makarand Kanade
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
Erp Software

 Cloud computing is the buzz word in today’s Information Technology. It can be used in various fields like banking, health care and education. Some of its major advantages that is pay-per-use and scaling, can be profitably implemented in development of Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP. There are various challenges in implementing an ERP on the cloud. In this paper, we discuss some of them like ERP software architecture by considering a case study of a manufacturing company.

scholarly journals The Patient Experience of Inpatient Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Patient Perceptions, Communication, and Quality of Care at a University Teaching Hospital in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 237437352199774
Author(s):  
Thomas Key ◽  
Avadhut Kulkarni ◽  
Vikram Kandhari ◽  
Zayd Jawad ◽  
Angela Hughes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Inpatient Care ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Health Board ◽  
Experience Of Care

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has necessitated many rapid changes in the provision and delivery of health care in hospital. This study aimed to explore the patient experience of inpatient care during COVID-19 pandemic. An electronic questionnaire was designed and distributed to inpatients treated at a large University Health Board over a 6-week period. It focused on hospital inpatients’ experience of being cared for by health care professionals wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), explored communication, and patients’ perceptions of the quality of care. A total of 704 patients completed the survey. Results demonstrated that patients believe PPE is important to protect the health of both patients and staff and does not negatively impact on their care. In spite of routine use of PPE, patients were still able to identify and communicate with staff. Although visiting restrictions were enforced to limit disease transmission, patients maintained contact with their relatives by using various electronic forms of communication. Overall, patients rated the quality of care they received at 9/10. This single-center study demonstrates a positive patient experience of care at an unprecedented time.

scholarly journals Surveillance, anticipation and firefighting: Perspectives of patient safety from a New Zealand case study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Wailling ◽  
Brian Robinson ◽  
M Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Tertiary Hospital ◽  
Structured Interviews

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: This study explored how doctors, nurses and managers working in a New Zealand tertiary hospital understand patient safety. Background: Despite health care systems implementing proven safety strategies from high reliability organisations, such as aviation and nuclear power, these have not been uniformly adopted by health care professionals with concerns raised about clinician engagement. Design: Instrumental, embedded case study design using qualitative methods. Methods: The study used purposeful sampling, and data was collected using focus groups and semi-structured interviews with doctors (n = 31); registered nurses (n = 19); and senior organisational managers (n = 3) in a New Zealand tertiary hospital. Results: Safety was described as a core organisational value. Clinicians appreciated proactive safety approaches characterized by anticipation and vigilance, where they expertly recognized and adapted to safety risks. Managers trusted evidence-based safety rules and approaches that recorded, categorized and measured safety. Conclusion and Implications for Nursing Management: It is important that nurse managers hold a more refined understanding about safety. Organisations are more likely to support safe patient care if cultural complexity is accounted for. Recognizing how different occupational groups perceive and respond to safety, rather than attempting to reinforce a uniform set of safety actions and responsibilities, is likely to bring together a shared understanding of safety, build trust and nurture safety culture.

Human-Centered Design for Health Information Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 296-318
Author(s):  
Charlotte Tang ◽  
Sheelagh Carpendale
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Human Centered Design ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Care Technology

This chapter presents issues that may arise in human-centered research in health care environments. The authors first discuss why human-centered approach is increasingly employed to study and to design health care technology. They then present some practical concerns that may arise when conducting qualitative research in medical settings, from research design, to data collection and data analysis, and to technology design. Many of these concerns were also experienced in their own human-centered field studies conducted in the last few years. The authors conclude the chapter by illustrating some of these issues using their own research case study that investigated nurses’ information flow in a hospital ward.

Lipid abnormalities: A case study of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
SA Akuyam ◽  
PO Anaja ◽  
HS Isah ◽  
IS Aliyu ◽  
R Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Lipid Abnormalities
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