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Modelling Medical-Surgical Nurse Workload and Care Quality During COVID-19: Implications for Building Healthy Work Environments
Discrete event simulation (DES) was used to measure the effects of varying COVID-19 nurse-patient ratios on nurse workload and quality of care in a Canadian medical-surgical context. As nurses were assigned to more COVID-19 ... -
Moderate-intensity risk reduction counseling and acquisition of sexually transmitted infection
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a public health problem in the United States, with adolescents and young adults to age 25 bearing a disproportionate burden of infection. Risk reduction counseling (RRC) as a ... -
The moderating effect of religion on death distress and quality of life among Christian cancer patients in the United States with Muslim cancer patients in Saudi Arabia
Cancer is an illness that knows no international boundaries. There are more than eight million global cancer deaths each year. A life-threatening diagnosis generates significant emotional problems for many patients across ... -
Moderating effects of cognitive adaptability on expressive writing outcomes among persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus
This study explored the effects of expressive writing on psychological well-being, health status, and adherence among persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. It further explored the moderating effects ... -
Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in the early adolescent period
The purpose of this study is to describe patterns and relationships among the modifiable cardiovascular risk factors of smoking behavior, overweight, physical inactivity and poor dietary behaviors within a ninth grade ... -
Modified early warning score tool kit: Multi-disciplinary implications for practice
US incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest exceeded over 200,000 events in 2016 with survival rates of less than 25%. As much as 66% of in-hospital cardiac arrests are determined to be preventable with early warning signs ... -
Modified Fresno Test - Acute care nursing
Background: Few objective measures of evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge/skill exist. The Fresno Test, one objective method, has only been validated with medicine, physical/ occupational/speech therapy, pediatric ... -
Modified pectoral nerve block for unilateral mastectomy
General anesthesia combined with opioid therapy is the most common anesthetic technique used for patients undergoing breast cancer surgery; however, inhaled anesthetics and opioids are notorious offenders of a fragile ... -
Mom-to-mom: A program to mentor and support pregnant women whose spouses are deployed to the combat zone
(2012-9-12)Purpose: For all women, maternal psychosocial adaptation occurs throughout pregnancy and into the postpartum period. Researchers studying non-military pregnant women have demonstrated that support from a role model provides ... -
Monitored anesthesia care for transcatheter aortic valve replacements
Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) is prevalent in 2-4% of the population greater than age 75. Historically, the definitive treatment for patients diagnosed with AVS involved a high-risk open-heart surgery for replacement of the ... -
Monitoring and Assessment of Critically Ill Patients' Nutritional Support By Nurses in East London Hospitals
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016: Introduction: Critical illness places tremendous stress on the body, leading to a series of metabolic changes and resultant malnutrition, complications ensue, with morbidity ... -
Monitoring of magnesium sulphate to improve quality: A case study at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital Gogo Chatinkha maternity wing, high dependence unit, Blantyre, Malawi
(2017-05-18)In Malawi severe preeclampsia and eclampsia rank among the leading causes of maternal mortality. Magnesium sulfate is a drug of choice for treatment. Proper monitoring of clients on the drug may promote safe motherhood. ... -
Monitoring, meals, and medications: A pilot study to improve the coordination of inpatient diabetes care
The purpose of this presentation is to describe a quality improvement project aimed at improving the coordination of diabetes care in the hospital. Implementation strategies, staff perceptions, and resulting clinical ... -
Monk volunteer health advocacy project: A multidisciplinary collaboration for training and capacity-building for Buddhist monks
The aim of this article is to describe our experience in operating a multidisciplinary collaboration for training and capacity-building among Buddhist monks to raise monks' awareness of NCDs and become Buddhist monk volunteer ... -
The moral certainty or uncertainty of nurses regarding end-of-life treatment decisions
Much has been written about the importance of decision-making in nursing ethics, but few research studies have been completed which examine nurses' ethical decision-making. In order to address this absence of research, two ... -
Moral decision making by neonatal intensive care nurses
Purpose. The purpose of this research was to gain information about the perspective neonatal intensive care nurses use to make moral decisions. Previous research in nursing has assumed ... -
Moral development and moral distress through the baccalaureate healthcare student lens
How millennial health-care baccalaureate health-care students were impacted by moral development and moral distress was explored. Study demonstrated that participants were morally developed AND had experienced moral distress ... -
Moral development and public health nursing
Public health nurses (PHNs) have the opportunity and professional obligation to be at the forefront of the fight to eliminate health disparities based on the practice principle of social justice. The overall purpose of ... -
Moral distress experienced by Level One Trauma Nurses: A phenomenological study
Presenting original research by principal researcher, a phenomenological descriptive study on moral distress as experienced by level one trauma nurses. Colaizzis' data analysis resulted in 320 extracted statements, placed ... -
Moral distress in neonatal intensive care nurses who care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome
(2012-01-04)Moral distress has been defined as being the painful psychological disequilibrium that results from recognizing the appropriate action, yet not taking it because of some obstacle or constraint. Neonatal intensive care unit ...