Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510113
Health Coaching and Motivational Interventions for Diabetes and Hypertension Care
Thomas TH Wan, Waleed Kattan and Amanda Terry
Article Type: Review Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
A systematic review on diabetes care was centered in their modifying effects of coaching and motivational interventions on diabetes and hypertension care. Critical issues pertaining to the dose-response relationship between the intervention program and outcomes, the cost-effectiveness evaluation, and the lengths of observation were noted. A positive impact of health coaching (HC) and motivational intervension (MI) was noted in this review of randomized controlled studies. However, successful res...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510111
Correlation between Alcohol-Based Handrub Consumption and Adherence to Hand Hygiene Protocols in Individual Nurses
Yoko Yamamoto, Kiyomi Harada, Masako Murota, Yukie Takishita, Yoko Iwawaki, Tomoko Matsuoka, Yukari Nishiuchi, Toshie Ibayashi and Kenya Matsumoto
Article Type: Brief Report | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
Hand hygiene helps prevent health care-associated infections. Prior studies have investigated methods to measure adherence to hand hygiene protocols and have attempted to determine the correlation between alcohol-based handrub consumption and hand hygiene adherence via direct observation in healthcare facilities or wards, but there remains need for methods measuring hand hygiene adherence in individual health care workers. The failure of even one worker to adhere to the hand hygiene protocols ca...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510110
Cognitive Impairment and Associated Factors in Patients Hospitalized in Neurology Services
Emel Bahadir-Yilmaz and Elvan E ATA
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
Cognitive impairments commonly occur due to neurological diseases and elderly. Cognitive impairments in many elderly patients is thought to be related only to neurological disease. However, it is necessary to investigate whether this impairment is due to age. Because cognitive impairment may adversely affect the treatment and care needs of elderly patients; therefore, it is important to assess their cognitive functions. This was a descriptive study conducted to identify cognitive impairment and ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510107
Qualitative Study of Supervisor Feedback on Nurse Managers' Reflective Journals
Yumiko Kuraoka
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
A total of 63 nurse managers participated in an experiential learning-based program that included writing entries in a reflective journal and supervisor feedback. The Experiential Learning Inventory on the Job (ELI) was administered before and after the program. Overall, 10 nurse managers showed apparent changes in their Experiential Learning Inventory scores after completing the program. We qualitatively analyzed the data from 41 reflective journal entries written by these 10 nurses along with ...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510105
Marital Adjustment of Women Living in Two Different Provinces of Turkey and their Attitudes towards Violence against Women
Betül Aktas, Hasret Yalcinoz Baysal and Medine Yilmaz
Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
The study is a descriptive and cross-sectional one. The population of the study included 18-49 year old married women residing in the eastern (Erzurum) and the western (İzmir) part of Turkey. Of these women, 303 who presented to the Family Health Center for any reason and volunteered to participate in the study comprised the study sample. To collect the study data, the Sociodemographic Characteristics Questionnaire, the Attitudes towards Violence against Women Scale and the Marital Adjustment S...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510104
Training of French Nursing Students on Drawing Blood Culture: Results from a Broad Electronic Survey
Barbara Alves and Romain Jouffroy
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
Early implementation of appropriate treatments reduces mortality of sepsis, but before starting antibiotherapy, drawing blood culture is essential to identify the source of sepsis and to adapt treatment. Suboptimal practices result in blood culture contamination from patient's skin at the venepuncture site. As blood culture is the standard method to diagnose a bacteraemia, appropriate training of nursing students can promote good clinical practice. This study aims to evaluate the teaching and th...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510103
Risk Factors for Postoperative Delirium after Cardiac Surgery
Yutaka Matsuura, Mitsuki Kamidaira and Akiko Tamura
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
Postoperative delirium affects prognosis and the probability of survival. It is important for medical professionals to predict and prevent delirium, as well as implement appropriate interventions, early in the course of care. This study sought to reveal the risk factors for postoperative delirium based on general characteristics such as circulatory dynamics in patients admitted to the ICU after cardiac surgery. Patients who underwent cardiac surgery were included in this study (n = 149). Trained...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510102
Set Up of Longitudinal Care Paradigm in Contemporary Family Medicine and Community Nursing
Manuel Ortega-Calvo and Manuel Angel Calvo-Calvo
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
The paradigm constitutes the development of what is called "normal science". On the other hand, one of the essential characteristics of medical and nursing practices in primary health care (PHC) is the longitudinal heed of human beings. William Rathbone VI was a merchant and businessman noted for his philanthropic work. In 1859 his appreciation for the services of a nurse, Mary Robinson, engaged to care for his dying wife, prompted him to campaign for a system of district nursing to enable the p...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510101
Hierarchical Linear Modeling Application in Analyzing Occupational Injuries Related Factors for Nurses in Taiwan
Min-Hui Li, Yu-Lung Wu, Fu-I Hou and Wan-Yun Huang
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 4
Nurses are prone to occupational injuries due to the nature of their roles in the medical care environment. To narrow the gap in literature, this research analyzes the relevant individual- and hospital-level factors of occupational injuries suffered by nursing personnel in Taiwan by targeting those with occupational injury records in the 2013 National Health Insurance Research Database. A two-level research model consisting of the individual demographic data, hospital category and types, and ind...
