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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE PERCEPTION AND PRACTICE OF SELECTED CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS AMONG TARGET POPULATION IN  THE SELECTED AREAS OF MUMBAI. OBJECTIVES: To assess the perception of the ...

Abstract    Introduction: Children have the highest influenza infection rates of all population groups. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends annual universal influenza vaccination of all persons ≥ 6 months of age. Many school-aged children do not receive recommended vaccinations and experience influenza, which results in poor health, absences from school, and transmission of infection to family and community members. Aims and Objectives: The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the effectiveness of a school located influenza vaccination program planned and operated by public health nurses. Materials and Methods: A descriptive, case study approach was used. A convenience sample included 58 schools located in urban and rural settings with a total enrollment of 13,356 children aged 5-18 years in 2010-11 school year. Program evaluation methods included analysis of program data, survey of public health and school personnel, public health nursing grand rounds, and benchmarking. Measures included vaccination rates, operational and financial factors, survey results and benchmarks.   Results and Discussion: The baseline influenza vaccination rate was 21% in 2010-11 school year. Results of clinics operated during school hours was 30.38% (SD=7.02) and after school hours clinics was 16.27% (SD=7.47), t(56)=7.0, p Conclusion: Pragmatic interpretation of evaluation findings supported improvements, decision making, and knowledge discovery. Though not reaching the goal of 50% coverage, the program progressed toward the goal. Key words:  public health nursing, influenza; vaccination; schools; child; population health, evaluation....

The Readiness Estimate & Deployability Index (READI) measures the level of individual deployment readiness among military and civilian nurses to deploy to austere environments during conflicts or natural disasters.  The ...

Introduction. Aims/Objectives. The purpose of this review is to explore the barriers and interventions for successful NP integration to healthcare teams. Research aims are to study the evidence related to autonomy, ...

Purpose: The purpose of this evidence based practice project is to improve usability of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to demonstrate consistent compliance with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and heart failure (HF) Core ...

Approximately 7.8 million patients over age 20 are diagnosed every year with Type Two Diabetes (DMII) in the United States. Eighty-six million Americans aged 20 and over are at risk for developing DMII due to pre-diabetic ...

Background/Hypothesis:  A unique caregiver burden and quality of life for the caregivers of CTCL patients exists, and as such, there may be unidentified, and thus unmet, caregiver needs.   Objectives: The purpose of this ...

Interprofessional teamwork is recognized as a major contributing factor to safe patient care and improved patient outcomes.  Healthcare professionals’ attitudes impact successful teamwork.  A large, not-for-profit healthcare organization in the southwestern United States conducted a new employee orientation that included content on interprofessional teamwork, and collected quality improvement data that included responses to the TeamSTEPPS® Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ).  This retrospective, non-experimental, before-after, comparative study analyzed this quality improvement data to determine if there was a significant impact of the interprofessional teamwork-focused orientation on individual team member’s attitudes regarding teamwork as measured by the T-TAQ.  The principles of Adult Learning Theory guided this study.  The results of the paired-samples t-test (N= 81) showed a significant increase in mean scores between the pre-orientation T-TAQ (M = 4.44, SD = .328) and the post-orientation T-TAQ (M = 4.64, SD = .326; t (80) = -6.35, p CI: -.262 to -.137, d =.34).  Recommendations include that healthcare organizations consider: the addition of teamwork content to their new employee orientations with the goal of improving new employee attitudes regarding teamwork, utilizing the TeamSTEPPS® tools and materials provided by the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality in the education that they provide to their staff to improve the teamwork within their organizations, use of the T-TAQ to evaluate teamwork attitudes within their organization, and evaluation of attitudes regarding teamwork prior to hire of new employees.  ...

Population health as defined by Nash, Reifsnyder, Fabius & Pracilio (2011) is the “distribution of health outcomes within a population, the health determinants that influence distribution, and the policies and interventions ...