Current Issue : October - December Volume : 2018 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 5 Articles
Background: The public health nurse should make efforts to keep his/her\nown mental and physical health good, which is the professional responsibility.\nHowever, a variety of challenging issues have been pointed out with regard to\nwell-being of healthcare professionals. Public health nurses are likely to face\nsome difficulties in their habits of leading healthy lifestyles. The purpose of\nthis study was to identify how Japanese public health nurses actually live their\nhealthy lives. Methods: This study covered 1725 public health nurses in the\nChugoku/Shikoku Region. We conducted an anonymous self-completed\nquestionnaire survey. As basic attributes, the following 6 categories were set.\nThe health practice indices used in this research consisted of the 7 practices of\nBreslow�s Health Practice Index (B-HPI), the Morimoto�s 8 practices, and 6\npractices related to lifestyle habits that have been developed independently by\nthe authors of this research (Health Lifestyle Index (HLI)), that is, 16 practices\nin total. The study plan was approved by the Ethics Committee of Okayama\nUniversity. Results: We analyzed the 960 (55.7%) valid responses. This survey\nhas demonstrated that the healthy lifestyle practices of public health nurses\nare generally good. However, there were some practices such as eating between\nmeals, having little physical activity, and not having a good rest/sleep,\nthat need to be improved. None of the assessment tools correlated with the\nlength of experience. Conclusions: This survey has clarified that the healthy\nlifestyle practices of public health nurses did not correlated with their length\nof experience, indicating that the healthy lifestyle practices are not intensified\nby the accumulated career experience as public health nurses....
Background and Aim. Long hospital days in intensive care unit (ICU) due to life-threatening diseases are increasing in the world.\nThe primary goal in ICU is to decrease length of stay in order to improve the quality of medical care and reduce cost. The aim of\nour study is to identify and categorize the factors associated with prolonged stays in ICU. Materials and Method.We retrospectively\nanalyzed 3925 patients. We obtained the patientsâ�� demographic, clinical, diagnostic, and physiologic variables; mortality; lengths\nof stay by examining the intensive care unit database records. Results. The mean age of the study was 61.6 �± 18.9 years. The average\nlength of stay in intensive care unit was 10.2 �± 25.2 days. The most common cause of hospitalization was because of multiple\ndiseases (19.5%). The length of stay was positively correlated with urea, creatinine, and sodium. It was negatively correlated with\nuric acid and hematocrit levels. Length of stay was significantly higher in patients not operated on than in patients operated on\n(...
Objective: To ascertain a method for building good nurse-patient relations\nfrom the narratives of veteran nurses who have accumulated profound nursing\nexperience, and to show these phenomena in model form. Methods:\nSemi-structured interviews were conducted, verbatim records of the contents\nof the interviews produced, and qualitative analysis undertaken. Results of\nanalysis and concepts considered important were shown in model form. Results:\nVeteran nurses, utilizing their nursing specialization, showed ââ?¬Å?Concern\nas humans,ââ?¬Â transcending their professional specialty. This was expressed as\nââ?¬Å?spreading the wings of imaginationââ?¬Â in order to know what is important to\npatients, and ââ?¬Å?protecting soulsââ?¬Â in order to defend, together with patients,\nwhat is most important to the latter. ââ?¬Å?Spreading the wings of imagination to\nprotect patientsââ?¬â?¢ soulsââ?¬Â became the key to build good nurse-patient relations.\nConclusion: Nurses with deep experience expressed building good\nnurse-patient relations as ââ?¬Å?spreading the wings of imagination and protecting\npatientsââ?¬â?¢ souls.ââ?¬Â We were able to ascertain that in nursing practice, using the\nsensitivity of veteran nurses, is one way of manifesting nursing conduct....
Nursing is a career that involves more than taking care of sick patients, especially\nwhen working in health institutions (e.g. Clinics and Hospitals). According\nto the current curriculum guidelines for nurse graduation, it is necessary\nfor this professional to develop different skills to work in several health\ncare environments, including decision-making, communication, leadership,\namong others. Therefore, our objective was to plan a strategy to approximate\nNursing freshmen students to their professional environment already in the\nvery beginning of their graduate course. On that purpose we planned an evaluation\nstrategy for the discipline Biochemistry using an active methodology to\nsimulate a professional experience. Initially the students were divided into\npairs, and had to analyze two different professional situations, both using Biochemical\nconcepts. According to our results, as the evaluation strategy was\napplied, the students showed surprise and curiosity. The analysis of the questionnaire\nabout the strategy revealed that most of the participants enjoyed the\nactivity using positive words. Thus the strategy showed a good acceptance and\npresented the desired characteristic of correlating Biochemistry, a basic discipline,\nwith the nurse professional skills. This strategy may allow they become\nmore aware of their responsibilities sooner, as it allows using earlier\ntheir competence of seeking solutions to solve situations regarding the professional\npractices using biochemical basic concepts. This experience may improve\nthem to a future better attendance of their patients....
Background: This study aimed to clarify the supportive care needs and medical\ncare requests of male patients during their infertility treatment to be able\nto provide them with optimal nursing care. Methods: A self-filled questionnaire\nsurvey was conducted in 411 male patients who were undergoing infertility\ntreatment at 4 human reproductive clinics. The investigation period was\nfrom April to August 2016. This research used across-sectional study design.\nThe submission of the filled questionnaire was taken as an indication of\nagreement and consent to the research. The main contents of the questionnaire\nwere attributions, care needs, and medical care requests of male patients.\nThe care needs were evaluated by descriptive statistics, and the free descriptions\nof the medical care requests were analyzed for their contents qualitatively\nand recursively. The study was performed after the approval of the Research\nEthics Review Committee. Results: The number of valid responses was\n331 (80.5%). The care needs of the male patients were warm care from their\nwives, provision of information on their treatment, daily life information for\nconceiving, and evaluation data. The 6 categories of the open-ended responses\nwere as follows: warm support, improvement of examination environment,\nadjustment of medical examination schedule, information provision, support\nfrom wife, and subsidy for treatment costs. These were extracted from the\nmedical care requests by qualitative inductive analysis. Conclusions: The care\nneeds and medical care requests of male patients undergoing infertility treatment\nwere mainly on being provided information and supporting their wives.\nAs supporting nursing care for these male patients, provision of sufficient in formation regarding the examination results and infertility treatment is recommended,\nand environmental considerations peculiar to male patients are\nnecessary. Consideration from female patients is also an indispensable factor\nsimilarly to the provision of care for male patients....
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