AN IOT TROLLEY FOR LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES TO PROVIDE EFFICIENCY AND REDUCE RISKS

One of challenges facing the long-term care facilities in Taiwan is the burden of the paperwork affecting nurses, which limits their time to look after the residents. Nurses usually estimate spending one quarter of their shifts with paperwork. The aim of this study is to develop a mobile care information system - Jubo IoT Trolley: a trolley with IoT vital-sign devices collecting and delivering timely care information to care professionals. Based on user-centered design (i.e., discover-define-develop-delivery), we conducted stakeholder interviews and rapid prototypes to zero in on the communication problem, and designed the IoT Trolley to support nurses in their daily workflow, facilitate vital-sign measurements at the bedsides, and collect the measured values to the cloud database automatically. Through design iterations, we have validated usability of the system in multiple care facilities. The result shows, with the IoT Trolley, the nurses can receive the senior’s critical vital status from the caregivers more promptly, provide instructions remotely and therefore, reduce potential care risks. Furthermore, the cloud analyzes the collected residents’ health data, the vital sign alerts can be sent to the nursing directors, so they can coordinate and intervene instantly. At last, this work demonstrates that through the technology, care qualities are improved, and care professionals can spend more valuable time with residents in the long-term care facilities.

Nursing documentation practice and associated factors among nurses in public hospitals, Tigray, Ethiopia

Objective The objective of this study was to investigate documentation practice and factors affecting documentation practice among nurses working in public hospital of Tigray region, Ethiopia. Results In this study, there were 317 participants with 99.7% response rate. The result of this study shows that practice nursing care documentation was inadequate (47.8%). Inadequacy of documenting sheets AOR = 3.271, 95% CI (1.125, 23.704), inadequacy of time AOR = 2.205, 95% CI (1.101, 3.413) and with operational standard of nursing documentation AOR = 2.015, 95% CI (1.205, 3.70) were significantly associated with practice of nursing care documentation. To conclude, more than half of nurses were not documented their nursing care. Employing institutions should provide training on documentation of nursing care to enhance knowledge and create awareness on nurses’ documentation to nursing directors and chief executive officer to access adequate documenting supplies besides employing more nurses.

Leadership styles of the Nursing Directors at the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Background: The need to define the leadership styles of the nursing directors is imperative as it gives the organization an insight of what to achieve. This study determines the leadership styles of the nursing directors in the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This research aims to assess the association of the age, gender and year of employment of the nursing directors to their identified leadership styles. Methods: This research employed the correlational approach in probing the leadership styles of the nursing directors in the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. There were 22 nursing directors (100 % response rate) participated in the study. The researcher used the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, Form 6-S (MLQ- 6S) by Bass and Avolio. Results: The data suggests that nursing directors employed transactional leadership style in leading their subordinates. It is found out that age has a significant difference in the transactional leadership styles (.037>.05). However, gender and year of employment revealed no significant difference to transformational leadership (.792), transactional leadership (.857), and the laissez-faire (.346). Conclusion: Demystifying the leadership styles of the nursing directors and its variables can contribute to the understanding of the leadership needs to carry out towards organizational outcomes. The study implies a clear demarcation between an expectation of the leaders and the employees of how leadership and work shall be carried out in the organization. Keywords: Laissez-Faire, Leadership Styles, Transformational, Transactional, Nursing Directors

Addressing Quality Management System Obstacles in Jordanian Hospitals

<p>Quality Management System (QMS) enhances management, allows more effective organisation, improves quality of services, increases staff satisfaction and commitment to the organisation, enhances co-operation among employees and management, and improve patients’ satisfaction. Therefore, all hospitals make consistent efforts to address obstacles that face their QMS.</p><p>This study aimed to explore Hospital managers’ views about how to address QMS obstacles in Jordanian hospitals. The results from semi-structure interviews with 30 managers consisting of general directors, medical directors, administrative directors, quality directors, and nursing directors showed that hospitals can address QMS obstacles through a range of measures including but not limited to rewarding talented employees, providing good salaries and benefits, and recruiting qualified and efficient hospital managers. Recommendations for improving the implementation of QMS in Jordanian hospitals are provided.</p>