Spanish Nursing Students' Practical Experience of Computer Applications in Nursing

This study aimed to determine the level of computer practical experience in a sample of Spanish nursing students. Each student was given a Spanish language questionnaire, modified from an original used previously with medical students at the Medical School of North Carolina University (USA) and also at the Education Unit of Hospital General Universitario del Mar (Spain). The 10-item self-report questionnaire probed for information about practical experience with computers. A total of 126 students made up the sample. The majority were female (80.2%; n=101). The results showed that just over half (57.1%, n=72) of the students had used a computer game (three or more times before), and that only one third (37.3%, n=47) had the experience of using a word processing package. Moreover, other applications and IT-based facilities (e.g. statistical packages, e-mail, databases, CD-ROM searches, programming languages and computer-assisted learning) had never been used by the majority of students. The student nurses' practical experience was less than that reported for medical students in previous studies.

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Incluye: De la epidemia de viruela observada en el Hospital General de Madrid desde el 1ª de Abril de 1866 hasta 31 de Marzo de 1867.

Ocaso de las formas aristotélicas ... : que pretendió ilustrar a la luz de la razon ... Juan Martin de Lesaca /

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Cuerpos perfectibles. Imágenes y discursos circulantes en torno a la obesidad

El objetivo de este trabajo es comprender determinados elementos operantes dentro del proceso de construcción del cuerpo legítimo en Argentina. Para acercarnos a este constructo teórico tomamos la problemática de la obesidad como caso que permite entender, por la negativa, esa elaboración social. Empíricamente hemos seleccionado a hombres y mujeres desde 18 hasta 60 años que consultan en un hospital público. Esta decisión se explica en que consideramos a la obesidad como un rasgo subjetivo, no determinado únicamente por la imagen exterior o el peso que acusa la balanza. En la génesis de este estudio radica el intento por entender cómo la clínica médica se nutre de las imágenes corporales deterioradas o tergiversadas para sustentar el tratamiento de la obesidad y el sobrepeso. En pos de ello, realizamos una estadía etnográfica en el servicio de Nutrición y Diabetes del Hospital General de Agudos Carlos G. Durand (ubicado en el barrio de Almagro en la Ciudad Autónoma de Bs. As.). Este nosocomio cuenta con un equipo de médicos nutricionistas, psicólogos, psiquiatras y endocrinólogos abocados a trabajar coordinadamente con aquellos pacientes cuyos diagnósticos lo ameriten. A partir de nuestro paso por cada instancia del tratamiento hemos elaborado, inductiva y provisoriamente, una serie de categorías orientadas a comprender diversas situaciones resultantes de la interacción entre médicos, pacientes, acompañantes y demás personas involucradas dentro de aquel espacio

Cuerpos perfectibles. Imágenes y discursos circulantes en torno a la obesidad

El objetivo de este trabajo es comprender determinados elementos operantes dentro del proceso de construcción del cuerpo legítimo en Argentina. Para acercarnos a este constructo teórico tomamos la problemática de la obesidad como caso que permite entender, por la negativa, esa elaboración social. Empíricamente hemos seleccionado a hombres y mujeres desde 18 hasta 60 años que consultan en un hospital público. Esta decisión se explica en que consideramos a la obesidad como un rasgo subjetivo, no determinado únicamente por la imagen exterior o el peso que acusa la balanza. En la génesis de este estudio radica el intento por entender cómo la clínica médica se nutre de las imágenes corporales deterioradas o tergiversadas para sustentar el tratamiento de la obesidad y el sobrepeso. En pos de ello, realizamos una estadía etnográfica en el servicio de Nutrición y Diabetes del Hospital General de Agudos Carlos G. Durand (ubicado en el barrio de Almagro en la Ciudad Autónoma de Bs. As.). Este nosocomio cuenta con un equipo de médicos nutricionistas, psicólogos, psiquiatras y endocrinólogos abocados a trabajar coordinadamente con aquellos pacientes cuyos diagnósticos lo ameriten. A partir de nuestro paso por cada instancia del tratamiento hemos elaborado, inductiva y provisoriamente, una serie de categorías orientadas a comprender diversas situaciones resultantes de la interacción entre médicos, pacientes, acompañantes y demás personas involucradas dentro de aquel espacio

Controlled trial of multidisciplinary care teams for acutely ill medical inpatients: enhanced multidisciplinary care

Background: Acute hospital general medicine services care for ageing complex patients, using the skills of a range of health-care providers. Evidence suggests that comprehensive early assessment and discharge planning may improve efficiency and outcomes of care in older medical patients. Aim: To enhance assessment, communication, care and discharge planning by restructuring consistent, patient-centred multidisciplinary teams in a general medicine service. Methods: Prospective controlled trial enrolling 1538 consecutive medical inpatients. Intervention units with additional allied health staff formed consistent multidisciplinary teams aligned with inpatient admitting units rather than wards; implemented improved communication processes for early information collection and sharing between disciplines; and specified shared explicit discharge goals. Control units continued traditional, referral-based multidisciplinary models with existing staffing levels. Results: Access to allied health services was significantly enhanced. There was a trend to reduced index length of stay in the intervention units (7.3 days vs 7.8 days in control units, P = 0.18), with no change in 6-month readmissions. in-hospital mortality was reduced from 6.4 to 3.9% (P = 0.03); less patients experienced functional decline in hospital (P = 0.04) and patients' ratings of health status improved (P = 0.02). Additional staffing costs were balanced by potential bed-day savings. Conclusion: This model of enhanced multidisciplinary inpatient care has provided sustainable efficiency gains for the hospital and improved patient outcomes.

Evaluación de la calidad de un servicio de voluntariado en oncología: un Análisis Importancia-Valoración (IPA)

Objective: Using an Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA), this paper examined a Radiotherapy and Oncological Patient and Non-patient perceived importance and performance of ten Humanization Volunteer Program selection factors in the General Hospital in Spain.Methods: The authors identified a list of seven items from the Health-marketing literature reviews, and each item was rated using a 5-point Likert scale. Responses were obtained of 148 usable interviews.Results: The importance-performance patient grid was corrected with literature recommendations and, in the patient sample, shows three items fall in the “Keep up the good work” quadrant, four items fall into the “Low priority” quadrant, zero items fall into the “Possible overkill” quadrant, and no items fall in the “Concentrate here” quadrant. Non-patient (n=80) factors means shows statistical differences with patient (n=68) means in catering (t=-2.38; df.=146; p<0.05), and information (t=2.16; df146; p<0,05).Conclusions: The results are useful in identifying areas for strategic focus to help Health Services managers develop humanization programs with volunteer workers and different program users. Implication to volunteer programs managers and researchers were discussed.

Bienestar psicológico, optimismo y resiliencia en mujeres con cáncer de mama

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between Perceived Psychological well-being, Optimism and Resilience in women survivors of breast cancer.Method: The sample was composed of 30 women diagnosed with breast cancer who were undergoing adjuvant treatment in Oncology Units General Hospital of Jerez de la Frontera and the University Hospital Puerta del Mar (Cadiz). The average age was 47.47 years (SD = 6,356) and the average of months from diagnosis of the disease was 9.93 (SD = 8,541). Scale of Psychological Well-being administered Perceived Ryff (1989), the Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT-R) Scheier, Carver and Bridges (1994) and the Scale of Resilience Wagnild and Young (1993) to assess psychological well-being the dispositional optimism and resilience respectivelyResults: Descriptive analyzes show that women diagnosed with breast cancer have levels of psychological well-being, dispositional optimism and higher than the average values provided by Resilience scales. On the other hand, regression analyses revealed that only some of the dimensions of resilience allowed to explain and predict some dimensions of psychological wellbeing, not dispositional optimism.Conclusions: The results seem to confirm the idea that if the capacity of women with breast moderate negative affect generated by the diagnosis itself and the consequences of their cancer treatment works and to promote their adaptation to the new situation we can contribute to increasing psychological well-being.