Essays about: "Next-of-kin"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the word Next-of-kin.

  1. 6. Quality Improvement in a Maternity Ward and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. What are staff and patients' experiences of Experience-based Co-design? : Part 1: A qualitative study

    University essay from HHJ. Kvalitetsförbättring och ledarskap inom hälsa och välfärd

    Author : Carolina Bergerum; [2012]
    Keywords : Quality Improvement; Maternity Care; Neonatal Intensive Care; Experience-based Co-design;

    Abstract : Background: Recent focus on quality and patient safety has underlined the need to involve patients in improving healthcare. “Experience-based Co-design” (EBCD) is an approach to capture and understand patient and staff (i. e. users) experiences, identifying so called “touch points” and then working together equally in improvement efforts. READ MORE

  3. 7. A Need for Supportive Structure for Next-of-Kin Caregivers in Botswana

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Leah Dahlgren; [2012]
    Keywords : poverty; social roles; home-based care; caregivers; Supportive structures; Botswana; feminist standpoints.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Abstract Author: Leah Dahlgren Title: A Need for Supportive Structures for Next-of-kin Caregivers SIMV07, Master's Thesis (Two Years) in Social Studies of Gender Supervisor: Bodil Rasmunsson Lund University Department of Social Work Spring Term 2012 Botswana is one of the countries struggling with the control of HIV/AIDS pandemic. Due to the increase in numbers of sick people weighing financially on the health system, the government has introduced home-based care policy. READ MORE

  4. 8. Nursing panorama of patients with musculoskeletal injuries in Uganda using NANDA and NIC : An observational study

    University essay from Röda Korsets Högskola

    Author : Niklas Ergardt; Clara Stenström-Kyobe; [2012]
    Keywords : Nursing care; Next-of-kin; Uganda; NANDA; NIC;

    Abstract : Background: Road traffic accidents are on the rise in low income countries and have a large socioeconomic impact on Uganda. In Uganda, the nurse-patient ratio is 50-100 patients per nurse which is higher than in Sweden, and the patients’ next-of-kin are involved to assist with nursing care. READ MORE

  5. 9. Quality Improvement in a Maternity Ward and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit : What are staff and patients´ experiences of Experience-based Co-design? Part 1: A qualitative study

    University essay from HHJ. Kvalitetsförbättring och ledarskap inom hälsa och välfärd

    Author : Carolina Bergerum; [2012]
    Keywords : Quality Improvement; Maternity Care; Neonatal Intensive Care; Experience-based Co-design;

    Abstract : Background: Recent focus on quality and patient safety has underlined the need to involve patients in improving healthcare. “Experience-based Co-design” (EBCD) is an approach to capture and understand patient and staff (i. e. users) experiences, identifying so called “touch points” and then working together equally in improvement efforts. READ MORE

  6. 10. Symptoms and distress among patients with colorectal cancer: - the next of kin experiences

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Hälsoakademin

    Author : Karolina Ekholm; Carolin Grönberg; [2011]
    Keywords : colorectal cancer; next of kin; influences on life; symptoms; barriers; qualitative content analysis;

    Abstract : Abstract Purpose. To identify symptoms/distress among patients with colorectal cancer, from the viewpoint of the next of kin, before and after chemotherapy, and to establish whether there are any barriers to reporting these.   Methods. Individual face-to-face interviews with fourteen next of kin were conducted. READ MORE