Effect of Clinical Supervision Program for Head Nurses on Quality Nursing Care

1. Introduction Position of head Nurses is a vital at each unit and one of the most difficult, demanding, and challenging jobs in any organization, where assess, evaluate the work performance of nurses, review completed medical forms to assess record keeping abilities and inspect work areas for organization. So most of his/her functions are concerned … Read more

Thalassemia

INTRODUCTION Thalassemia is a hereditary hemoglobinopathy and transfusion-dependence is one essential factor in distinguishing the various thalassemia phenotypes and their severity.1 The ”-thalassemias are a group of recessively inherited hemoglobin synthesis disorders resulting from mutations in the ”-globin gene and consequently in defective ”-chain production which lead to an imbalance in ”/”-globin chain synthesis, ineffective … Read more

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS RELATION TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS

Introduction The nursing profession demands that the nurse in the process of care has to interact with the patients, the medical fraternity and the health care workers constantly. Hence, “Nurse-Patient Interaction” is the pulse of the nursing practice. This interaction is not just conversation. It is a complex process that involves nurse perception, understanding of … Read more

Development of sustainable health-care system

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Background Health systems around the world are facing increasing challenges: this is how to improve the medical services accessibility, improving quality and controlling health care costs and expenses. Required by the public and policy makers is good value for money, there are coordination and attach great importance to health and disease prevention … Read more

Assessing HIV/AIDS Survival in Nigerian Population

Contextual Project Concept A. Education has made survival and assessment of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria possible. Sex education has helped in preventing HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and increasing the participation of community leaders in the planning and implementation of HIV/AIDS programmes. In 2009, 23% of schools were provided life-skills based HIV education while 25% of men and … Read more

Predictors of health outcomes among patients with Type II Diabetes mellitus

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter presents related literature and studies relevant to the study on the predictors of health outcomes among patients with Type II Diabetes Mellitus. Related literatures are provided information taken from the reliable resources such as journals, books, and government and non-government organizations website. Related studies are the previous … Read more

Determination of Factors Impacting on Smoking Habits of University Students

An Empirical Analysis from TurkeyABSTRACT The aim of this study is to determine the main factors impacting on cigarette smoking habits of university students. In order to achieve this aim, the primary data obtained from face to face questionnaire conducted with 260 university students were used for Zero Altered Poisson Regression Model. The results of … Read more

Shellfish poisoning

This, in turn, activates mechanisms as a result of which the cell expels Na+ ions and absorbs calcium. Although a considerable increase in calcium concentration is buffered by sarcoplasmic reticulum, a local increase in calcium concentrations leads to an increase in the force of myocardium contraction. A similar mechanism of inducing an intracellular inflow of … Read more

Health Insurance plan for University Students

ABSTRACT The study was conducted to develop a new Health Insurance plan for university students in Pakistan. Quantitative research was conducted by collecting raw data from the sample of 500 university students from the age of 17 to 26, which gave the results of students’ exposure towards health issues and accidents. Different components of insurance … Read more

Proteins

INTRODUCTION Proteins are one the most common and important cellular macromolecules, which controls almost all biological processes. The functionality of a polypeptide chain depends on the attainment of a three- dimensional compact structure after its synthesis at the ribosome (Dobson 2003 nature 426: 884-890). Globular proteins can interact with their molecular targets only when it … Read more

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD)

Introduction In many countries of the world Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most communal disease among the young adults nowadays. Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that can develop as a complication of inadequately treated streptococcus throat or scarlet fever. An infection with group A streptococcus bacteria causes streptococcus throat and scarlet fever. This … Read more

Oral administration of drugs

1.0 INTRODUCTION Today various routs available for the administration of drugs but the oral route is the simplest and most preferable route for the administration of dosage forms. Different dosage forms are available for the administration orally. 1. Tablets 2. Capsules 3. Emulsion suspensions 4. Solutions etc But the problems is there in the recently … Read more

Antibiotic resistance to medicine

I. Introduction A. General problem of antibiotic resistance to medicine 1. Statistics Antibiotics are chemical substances utilize to prevent and treat infections caused by microorganisms, such as bacteria, parasites and fungi. Medications play a role by suppressing or inhibiting the growth of microorganisms (Sanders et al. 2011). There are more than 150 antibiotics currently available, … Read more

Scoliosis physical therapy

Scoliosis physical therapy refers to the part of physical therapy that deals with scoliosis. First, you should know what scoliosis is, who suffers from it and how it is acquired. Then you will find out about the ways to treat it and, especially about scoliosis physical therapy. Scoliosis is a condition of the spine in … Read more