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Toffoli, Luisa Patrizia. „'Nursing Hours' or 'nursing' hours - a discourse analysis“. Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8367.
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This thesis is about the business of nursing; the making and remaking of nurses’ work in the context of private healthcare. Nurses in Australia, as in other countries around the world, have experienced considerable workplace changes over the past 15 years due to governments and public and private healthcare organisations seeking to reform healthcare service delivery. These reforms have significantly changed not only how private hospitals manage care, but the nursing role in practice. This ethnographic study explores the impact of these reforms on nurses’ work in one Australian acute care private hospital. It critically examines nurses’ organising practices in light of the workload measurement method used to staff the hospital, unit and ward with minimum staffing. Using Foucault’s (1972) archaeological approach and drawing upon governmentality theory as the analytical framework, I will argue that within the political rationality of neo-liberalism, ‘care’ in nursing is a technology of governance. As such, nurses’ ‘care’ transforms contemporary healthcare policy, in particular policy pertaining to private healthcare, from a macro to the micro level of everyday practice. Care is the means of producing a ‘business savvy’ nurse; someone who is not only an expert clinician with transferable skills but who knows the private health market and is able to work within a competitive business environment. Analysis reveals the contradictions and tensions that exist for nurses between the clinical and economic foci, and the economics and business of health as the nursing role is played out within the organisational imperatives of their work. This study illustrates the shifting boundaries of nurses’ work in relation to the ascendancy of business concerns in healthcare delivery. While methods of workload measurement may well represent what counts as the nursing hours in healthcare organisations, the nurses in this study spoke at length of the strategies they used to make the nursing hours ‘work’. Findings indicate that nurses employ specific discursive strategies when talking about ‘nursing hours’. When addressing their workloads, their discourses centred on the business of care delivery, of nurse-to-patient ‘allocations’ and ‘handover’, or the many instances of ‘handing over’ their work. The study challenges nurses’ professional discourses about what nursing is, what nurses actually do and the sophistication with which this is accomplished at work. Conceiving of nurses’ work in terms of ‘nursing’ hours rather than patients in the business of health service delivery provides a different way of thinking about nursing workforce issues at a time when healthcare organisations and systems worldwide grapple with the question of how many nurses and what kind of nurses they need.
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Grant, Bernard. „All Hours“. University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617105424447492.
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Mailloux, Catelyn Jean. „Love Hours“. The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523544897130337.
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Taylor, Douglas E. „Passionate hours /“. Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11605.
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Matera, Regina M. „The effects of job satisfaction : twelve hours vs. eight hours /“. Staten Island, N.Y. : [s.n.], 1988. http://library.wagner.edu/theses/nursing/1988/thesis_nur_1988_mater_effec.pdf.
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Raghubir, Angelina. „A Thematic Analysis of Nurses’ Experiences with Open Visiting Hours on Medical Units“. Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39169.
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Aim: To describe medical nurses’ experiences caring for patients and families within an environment with open visiting hours (OVH).
Background: OVH is an approach where families and friends can visit patients without restrictions. OVH is a strategy used by hospitals to promote patient-and-family-centered care (PFCC). In an OVH environment, the increased presence of family can alter nurses’ working environments. However, research examining nurses’ perspectives on OVH is limited. As OVH becomes more widely implemented, it is essential to understand the influence of OVH on the nurse.
Design: A qualitative descriptive approach was used.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 registered nurses on two medical units in a large urban Canadian hospital. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data inductively. Strategies were used to enhance rigour.
Results: Four main themes resulted which described participants’ experiences with OVH as they related to the processes and philosophy of OVH, the care of patients and family, and the influence families had on patient care and nurses working environments. An overarching theme of Reliance and Resistance reflected participants’ mixed feelings toward OVH. While OVH facilitated PFCC and alleviated nurses’ work, at times it also hindered opportunities for nurses to get to know patients and added to their work. Further, increased family presence created challenges related to space, overcrowding, increased noise levels, and created concerns about safety.
Conclusion: The findings add to an understanding of the clinical realities of OVH from the perspectives of medical nurses, and the potential implications for PFCC and nurses’ working environment.
Relevance to clinical practice: OVH creates an environment to foster PFCC. However, nurses may benefit from training to facilitate communication and engagement with families. Organizations who wish to implement OVH should consider how contextual factors may influence nurses’ environments and their practice.
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Chen, Chun-hung. „Essays on after hours market /“. Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7470.
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Chan, Chi-ho, und 陳志豪. „Sexuality, identity and "The hours"“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29918054.
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Pryce, Joanna. „Working hours, health and behaviour“. Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415020.
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Hedberg, Sandra. „Off-hour support : A feasibility study of support beyond office hours in medical technology“. Thesis, KTH, Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-234260.
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Healthcare demands staff working around-the-clock for their patients. Healthcare staff is increasingly dependent on technology for performing their profession in the most adequate way possible. However, technology fails occasionally, and thus requires service. As medicine is increasingly dependent on technical device, there is also an increasing need for support beyond office hours. The current service-level agreements at Philips imaging systems and patient monitoring systems include service during office hours. In this project, the need of expanding the hours, in which support is offered, is investigated. The project is carried out through interviews with medical technicians and users of the medical device. The respondents include technicians and clinicians working with medical imaging and patient monitoring, respectively. The aim is to map the need for off-hour support, e.g. support during evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. The results show that there is a need for off-hour support. However, the need differs depending on the receiver of the support.
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Pippin, Bradley W. „Allocating flight hours to Army helicopters“. Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA350138.
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Guillory, Bradley P. „"Two Thousand Hours" and Other Essays“. ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1682.
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Webb, Melessia D. „Relaxation Seminars, Ten one-hours sessions“. Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8507.
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Kameník, Josef. „Regulace kaminonové dopravy - hours of service“. Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-76270.
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Thesis is concerned with one of many regulations which affects cargo truck transport, so-called hours of service. It is restriction related to time of drivers' service. Truck transport means important part of economy as connection between companies or between company and final consumers. Aim of the work is compare regulations in European Union, Canada and USA together with their historical evolution. Differences in regulation are then explained in model transport relations. There are also analyzed individual interested groups which are influenced by these regulations. In final part of the work is looked about pro and con of existing restriction and what are the consequences of observance of the rules or even tightening up the rules.
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Williams, Kenneth R. „The De Villers Book of Hours“. DigitalCommons@USU, 1996. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/182.
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Created in France during the late fifteenth century, the illuminations, text, and family genealogy (added by one of many owners) found in De Villers Book of Hours make it an excellent example among other French books of hours from this period. In addition to acting as a repository of the style and iconography of French fifteenth-century illumination, the book's rich decorative program and varied textual content provide a remarkable document of contemporary devotional piety. This thesis provides the first detailed description and analysis of the De Villers Book of Hours. Following a description of books of hours in general, the overall makeup of the De Villers Hours is addressed, including the decorative program with a suggested method and example for description, a sample of textual transcription, comments on the provenance, a brief discussion of the family genealogy, and a concluding section with a sample collection register and worksheet for cataloging.
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Cartmel, Jennifer Leigh. „Outside school hours care and schools“. Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/17810/1/Jennifer_Cartmel_Thesis.pdf.
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Outside school hours programs provide recreation, play and leisure-based programs for children aged 5 to 12 years in before- and after-school settings, and in the vacation periods. Over the past ten years, the number of programs has grown rapidly due to women’s increasing participation in the workforce. At the same time, critical changes for the operation and administration of Queensland outside school hours care services were occurring following the introduction of mandatory standards and quality assurance. This study is a critical ethnography investigating the circumstances for two Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) services located on school sites at this time of change. The services were responding to the introduced legislative and accreditation requirements, the burgeoning numbers of students in the programs, and the requirements by parents for care for their school-aged child. The findings of this study show the complexity of the dualities of purpose and the operational administration of OSHC services, an area that has been little identified and discussed to date. This study illuminated not only aspects of OSHC services, it provided an opportunity for the co-ordinators of the two OSHC services to reflect on the operational structures.
As the majority of OSHC services in Queensland (and other Australian states) are located in school sites, a closer examination of the relationship between OSHC and schools provided insights into some issues concerning the sector. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action was used to investigate the state of affairs and analyse the consensual and coercion meaning-making that occurred in the interactions between the stakeholders, specifically between the OSHC coordinators and school principals. Critical ethnographic research techniques, including participant observations and semi-structured interviews, were used to investigate what appears below the surface of social existence in the OSHC settings.
On the surface, the interactions between the coordinators and principals appeared congenial. However, the study found that the vulnerability of the OSHC services for alienation and marginalisation was linked to the lack of legitimacy and reduced sense of social membership endowed by the ambience of the school setting in which the services were located. The study found that the distorted communicative action that took place within the OSHC settings exhibited the pathologies of alienation, withdrawal of legitimation and lack of collective identity. Examining the relationships of the key stakeholders within the outside school hours care services offers conceptual understandings of existing institutional relationships and practices, This critical ethnography pinpoints sources of power and unease contributing to the concerns for the outside school hours sector and recommends ways to develop these programs.
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Cartmel, Jennifer Leigh. „Outside school hours care and schools“. Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/17810/.
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Outside school hours programs provide recreation, play and leisure-based programs for children aged 5 to 12 years in before- and after-school settings, and in the vacation periods. Over the past ten years, the number of programs has grown rapidly due to women’s increasing participation in the workforce. At the same time, critical changes for the operation and administration of Queensland outside school hours care services were occurring following the introduction of mandatory standards and quality assurance. This study is a critical ethnography investigating the circumstances for two Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) services located on school sites at this time of change. The services were responding to the introduced legislative and accreditation requirements, the burgeoning numbers of students in the programs, and the requirements by parents for care for their school-aged child. The findings of this study show the complexity of the dualities of purpose and the operational administration of OSHC services, an area that has been little identified and discussed to date. This study illuminated not only aspects of OSHC services, it provided an opportunity for the co-ordinators of the two OSHC services to reflect on the operational structures.
As the majority of OSHC services in Queensland (and other Australian states) are located in school sites, a closer examination of the relationship between OSHC and schools provided insights into some issues concerning the sector. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action was used to investigate the state of affairs and analyse the consensual and coercion meaning-making that occurred in the interactions between the stakeholders, specifically between the OSHC coordinators and school principals. Critical ethnographic research techniques, including participant observations and semi-structured interviews, were used to investigate what appears below the surface of social existence in the OSHC settings.
On the surface, the interactions between the coordinators and principals appeared congenial. However, the study found that the vulnerability of the OSHC services for alienation and marginalisation was linked to the lack of legitimacy and reduced sense of social membership endowed by the ambience of the school setting in which the services were located. The study found that the distorted communicative action that took place within the OSHC settings exhibited the pathologies of alienation, withdrawal of legitimation and lack of collective identity. Examining the relationships of the key stakeholders within the outside school hours care services offers conceptual understandings of existing institutional relationships and practices, This critical ethnography pinpoints sources of power and unease contributing to the concerns for the outside school hours sector and recommends ways to develop these programs.
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Eriksson, Susanne. „Den rätta balansen : En kvantitativ studie om sambandet mellan faktisk, önskad arbetstid och hälsa“. Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-96207.
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The purpose of this study is to examine whether there is any connection between working hours, desired working hours and the worker ́s health. The study also aims to investigate if there are any differences over time. Earlier studies have shown that individuals need a balance in their life between worked hours and free time. This balance seems to be important for employees if they want to lead and remain a healthy lifestyle. If the employed doesn’t feel satisfied with his or her working hours then the balance can get disrupted which could lead to a number of health problems. There are a lot of studies that aim to explain the relationship between working hours and health. There is a missing area which examines the relation between desired working hours and the worker`s health. Therefore, this topic is interesting to study more closely. The study is conducted using data from the Swedish survey of living condition panel (ULF). The panels consist of people between 16 to 84 years old. The study started in 1975. Since 1979 the study has been conducted at 8 yearly intervals. The data is administrated by Statistic Sweden (SCB). Three hypotheses have derived from previous research 1; employees who are satisfied with their work hours are least fatigued 2; the relation between working hours and desired working hours has bigger effects on women than men. 3; women who are satisfied with their working hours are less fatigued over time. The results showed that people who are working fulltime or part time with a desire to work less are feeling most fatigued. People who are satisfied with their working hours are least fatigued. The relation between working hours and desired working hours has bigger effects on women then men. Women who are working part time are feeling less fatigued over time.
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Maser, Alexandra. „Investigating Trends in Long Work Hours in the U.S. by Demographic Group, 1979-2017“. Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1967.
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Many studies have found an increase in the percentage of workers working 50 or more weekly hours in the second half of the 20thcentury; however, few studies extend this analysis into the 21stcentury, and few have analyzed these patterns for women in depth. This paper provides an analysis of long work hours for men and women from 1979 to 2017. I investigate how workers who differ in education level, presence and age of children, salary type, and occupation gender-mix classification (for managerial/professional occupations), differ in their likelihood to work long hours. Using a linear probability model, I determine that those most likely to overwork include highly educated men and women, men with children, women without children, salaried workers, and workers in historically male-dominated managerial/professional occupations. Finally, using a Oaxaca decomposition, I find that changes in observable characteristics can account for between 52.28% and 72.62% of the 2 percentage point decrease in long work hours seen for men between the 2000-2002 time period and the 2015-2017 time period.
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Quan, Stuart F. „Interns Shall Not Sleep: The Duty Hours Boomerang“. Arizona Thoracic Society, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623266.
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Steiber, Nadia. „The formation and change of working time preferences in different societal contexts : a comparative analysis of Britain, Germany and Sweden“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670131.
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Bryson, Svartz Kelda. „Non Stop Kids : An all hours kindergarten“. Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-35208.
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Amagasa, Takashi. „Relationship Between Long Working Hours and Depression“. 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/185219.
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Aronsson, Thomas, und David Granlund. „Gender Norms, Work Hours, and Corrective Taxation“. Umeå universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-70300.
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Houpis, George H. „The determination of hours of work and the effects of reductions in hours of work on employment and wages“. Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1995. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1404/.
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This thesis examines the theoretical and empirical predictions of the effects of reductions in hours of work on wages and employment, the economic efficiency arguments for such reductions and the related issue of the determination of hours of work in a bargaining framework. The conventional approach, assumes that workers will want to maintain their incomes in the face of reductions in hours of work per period. This is difficult to justify theoretically, when hours and union/worker utility are taken properly into account. Rather, unions and workers that desire reductions in hours of work are likely to opt for the same or even a reduced hourly wage, leading to a significant employment effect of any such measure. We show that this result is true in labour markets and economies where unions determine or bargain over the wage and in models where firms set the wage because it affects their workers' productivity. It is also true when firms demand positive overtime, when such models account properly for the long-run movement of hours of work. The thesis examines also the determination of hours, employment and wages in a bargaining framework and shows that the employment effects of unionism are likely to be overestimated when no account is taken of the hours determination procedure. This allows us also to provide an economic rationale for union behaviour regarding reductions in hours of work and maximum hours legislation and determine the conditions under which reductions in standard hours of work can increase union utility and firm profits. Finally, empirical evidence is provided with a test of the relationship between the hourly wage and weekly hours of work, using aggregate data. We use a large number of variables and different estimation techniques to avoid simultaneity. Our results suggest, in line with the theoretical predictions, that changes in hours of work have no effect on the hourly wage.
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Mitchell, Dana L. Gallagher Thomas Vincent Taylor Steven E. „Extended working hours in the southeastern logging industry“. Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SUMMER/Forestry_and_Wildlife_Sciences/Dissertation/Mitchell_Dana_20.pdf.
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FERREIRA, ELOISE PORTO. „24 HOURS AUTHOR: POSSIBLE INTERACTIONS THROUGH VIRTUAL CONTACTS“. PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30023@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRONavegar é preciso, viver não é preciso, evocava o poeta Fernando Pessoa. No início do século XXI, navegar também é o verbo. Porém, navegamos todos nas ondas da internet. Sites aparecem e somem na tela em questão de segundos - basta clicar uma vez. O presente trabalho pretende investigar como a autoria se configura na contemporaneidade, considerando o surgimento das chamadas novas mídias. Serão analisados dois fenômenos: o primeiro é o do descentramento da autoria, com a publicação de experiências de escrita compartilhada em blogs e interferências do mercado editorial sobre o processo de produção da escrita, com sugestão de temas, de formatos ou procedimentos que costumavam ser geridos pelo próprio autor na criação de sua obra. O segundo fenômeno, aparentemente oposto ao primeiro, refere-se ao fortalecimento da figura do autor nos meios virtuais, especialmente nas redes sociais, o que pode nos sugerir uma ressurreição do autor. Esse fortalecimento passa pela criação da persona do autor em ambiente virtual, onde tudo parece ser impreciso, pois um único suporte - a tela do computador - é o espaço tanto da comunicação de informações consideradas reais quanto da ficção. Portanto, pretendemos investigar a presença do autor em dois campos: no campo virtual, com participação e trabalho na internet, e no campo presencial, através da participação em feiras literárias, entrevistas e outros eventos,destacando-se a sua crescente profissionalização. Michel Foucault, na década de 60, pergunta O que é um autor?, e seu questionamento permanece extremamente vívido na volatilidade dos tempos cibernéticos.
Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse - suggested the portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. In the beginning of the 21st century to navigate is a powerful verb, since we all navigate on the internet. At a click - sites come and go in our screens. This dissertation intends to investigate how autorship develops in contemporary times, in the face of the birth of new media. We intend to analyze two phenomena: the first one would be a decentralisation of authorship through the publishing of shared writing in blogs and the interference of the publishing market in the process of writing, with suggestions of themes, formats or procedures that used to be in authors hands in the past. This phenomenon demonstrates the progressive profissionalization of the author. The second one - apparently opposed to the first one - refers to what we might call the strenght of the author s image, especially in cyberspace, that has lead to a kind of resurrection of the author. This phenomena contributes towards the creation of an author s persona in cyberspace, where everything seems to be imprecise, since a single arena - the computer screen - is the place where both fictional and non-fictional communication takes place. Therefore, we intend to investigate the author s presence in two fields: cyberspace, through their participation and work on internet, and in real life, through their participation in literary events and interviews. What is an author? Michel Foucault asked back in the 60s, and his question remains relevant in the volatility of our cyber times.
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Emery, Susan. „Work Hours, Workload, and Fatigue in Nurse Anesthetists“. Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2972.
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Thesis advisor: Patricia TabloskiFatigue is a factor in human error particularly on tasks requiring sustained attention (Dinges, 1995). Work-hour studies of staff nurses have demonstrated that the risks of making an error increased when nurses worked longer shifts (Rogers, Hwang, Scott, Aiken, and Dinges, 2004. Workload in anesthesia care can vary widely with diverse cognitive and physical demands (Gaba and Lee, 1990; Weinger, Herndon, Zornow, Paulus, Gaba, and Dallen, 1994; Weinger, Reddy, and Slagle, 2004; Weinger and Slagle 2001). The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of work hours and workload on fatigue in certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). A predictive, correlational design was employed and utilized an electronic survey of 10,000 active certified and active recertified CRNAs. A total of 928 CRNAs completed the survey which included a self-report of work hours. Workload was measured by the NASA Task Load Index and fatigue by the Checklist Individual Strength (CIS-20). Hierarchical multiple regression analysis was applied to the data to test the hypotheses that 1) after controlling for demographic variables, the number of work hours and workload will positively influence post-shift fatigue in nurse anesthetists and 2) after controlling for demographic variables, there will be an interaction between work hours and workload in nurse anesthetists. Work hours and workload explained 19 % of the variance in fatigue in nurse anesthetists with the greatest contribution being from the number of work hours and the workload dimension of performance satisfaction. The study findings suggest that increasing hours of anesthesia time and increasing workload, particularly dissatisfaction with meeting the goals of the anesthetic (performance dimension) increase fatigue in nurse anesthetists. The implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Connell School of Nursing
Discipline: Nursing
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Blacher, Martin Granville. „Out of hours social work : an exploratory study“. Thesis, University of Leicester, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31353.
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Social work provision outside conventional working hours is an under-researched aspect of practice. This study identifies and explores the nature of out of hours or emergency duty team (EDT) practice, beginning from the proposition that it is qualitatively different from daytime social work provision. The principal perspectives and voices which inform this study are those out of hours social work practitioners and practitioner-managers themselves. The methodology employed involved three distinct elements. These were: semi-structured interviews with a sample of practitioners working in a range of locales throughout England, participant observation of out of hours practice and the inspection and analysis of documentary records. Data analysis combined thematic and narrative approaches. Following a review of related literature and an introduction to the methodology, routes to out of hours work are considered. Specific features of the out of hours practice context are outlined, followed by a focus on the processes of practice and understandings derived from an analysis of records of practice. Practitioner perspectives are then presented and explored in relation to a wide range of issues, allowing new insights to be developed in a variety of areas. These include the interplay between the worlds of work and non-work, the character of relations between out of hours and mainstream social work services and other agencies, how practice is documented and accounted for, the particular significance of narrative in out of hours practice, and the importance of discretion and autonomy in connection with professional social work. Morale as a concept is a previously neglected topic which is also addressed Together these insights allow the nature of our of hours social work to be delineated. The final chapter combines individuals' thoughts about their occupational futures with wider perceptions of the future for out of hours social work services.
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Chen, Yu-Hsia. „Youth labor supply and the minimum hours constraint“. The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1271776069.
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Chen, Yu-hsia. „Youth labor supply and the minimum hours constraint /“. The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266691096011.
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Nyland, Chris. „Worktime and the rationalisation of the capitalist production process /“. Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phn995.pdf.
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Meyer, Linda M. „Discovering the Nuances in the Book of Hours of the Virgin: A Book of Hours in the Toledo Museum of Art (1955.28)“. University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1305040445.
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Böckerman, Petri. „Empirical studies on working hours and labour market flows /“. Helsinki : Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy044/2004373935.html.
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Bech-Moen, Ole Christian. „Intra-family allocation of hours : who's calling the shots? /“. Oslo : Unipub, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/560019335.pdf.
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Yebba, Anthony R. „Voice Mail: A Way To Enhance Faculty Office Hours“. NSUWorks, 1989. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/940.
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Voice Mail: A way to enhance faculty office hours. Yebba, Anthony R. 1989: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in computer education at Nova University.
Descriptors: Voice Mail / Voice Messaging / PhoneMail Faculty Voice Mail / Faculty Office Hours and Voice Mail / Voice Mail Faculty Office Hours the writer addressed the problem of limited faculty office hours available for student help. Based on interviews with several faculty members and students, the writer determined that students found it difficult to meet with the faculty because of either limited faculty office hours or time conflicts.
The writer used a project planning model as the means of reaching a solution to the problem. The goal of the project was to provide an alternative method of faculty office hours by using a voice mail procedure. The writer used the college's voice messaging technology to develop a voice mail procedure that allowed students to send messages to the faculty. The faculty could call voice mail at any time to listen to and respond to student questions. The students could periodically check for answers to their questions and retrieve them. The system was defined by a systems definition team and implemented by the voice Mail Systems Administrator. The systems definition team completely tested the new voice mail procedure and corrected any errors encountered.
A training guide was developed and a faculty test group was trained on the procedure. The system was operational during a four week period to ascertain its success or failure. On completion of the test period, the faculty and the students were provided with survey forms to record their evaluation and comments. Based on the analysis of the faculty and student surveys, the Director of Information Services recommended that the new procedure be made available to the entire faculty.
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Sila, Urban. „Working hours, childcare support, wage inequality and windfall gains“. Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2769/.
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This work analyses working hours, childcare support, wage inequality and windfall gains. In Chapter I, I test whether family-support policies play a role in explaining variation in working hours across countries. I analyse childcare subsidies and family cash benefits and I distinguish between people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these effects should differ between parents and nonparents. I test this using household data for a set of European countries and the US. Empirical analysis, however, does not support the family-policy explanation. The effects of the policies on working hours are weak and insignificant. Furthermore, I do not find evidence for the expected differences between parents and nonparents. I conclude that family policies are not helpful in explaining the variation in working hours across countries. In Chapter II, I argue that rising inequality in offered wages lowers average working hours. If the labour supply is concave in wages, the aggregate effect of the decrease in working hours of low- paid workers is greater than the increase in working hours of high-paid workers. Furthermore, due to low market opportunities, some of the low-paid workers may leave the labour force and become inactive. Using the CPS-MORG data for prime-age men I find evidence in support of this explanation. After controlling for the average wage, wage inequality has a negative effect on the labour supply. In Chapter III, I investigate whether workers adjust hours of work in response to windfall gains using data from the European Household Panel. The results suggest that unexpected variation in income has a small negative effect on working hours. Furthermore, the empirical findings show that the impact of windfall gains is more important for young and old individuals, is most negative for married individuals with young children, but can be positive for single individuals at the age of 40.
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Jennings, Adrienne Douglas. „Variables associated with the hours worked by Iowa dentists“. Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2720.
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There are many factors that affect the hours worked by various professions. The literature discusses some of these factors in professions such as management and various fields of medicine. However, no information has been gathered on factors that affect the practice of dentists. A survey was disseminated to all Iowa dentists inquiring about various factors that may affect the number of hours they spend at work. The survey inquired about demographics, educational indebtedness, caregiving responsibilities of both children and dependent adults, contribution to household income, relationship status, domestic responsibilities, busyness and type of practice. The data was collected and analyzed. It was hypothesized that there was no difference in the number of hours worked between male and female Iowa dentists and there was no difference in the number of hours worked between female Iowa dentists with minor children (18 years old or younger) and female dentists without minor children. When hypotheses were statistically analyzed, the data showed there was no difference between male and female dentists' working hours in the bivariate analysis. In the multiple logistic regression model, while controlling for various factors such as age and busyness, gender was statistically significant in the number of hours worked. When evaluating the hours worked between female dentists with and without minors, there was a statistically significant difference in the number of hours worked between women with minor children and women without minors. However, in the multiple logistic regression model, presence of minors was not statistically significant. This lack of statistical significance is likely attributed to the small sample size of women dentists. As such, there was not enough power to have more than 2 variables and minor children was not included. The data suggests that young male dentists, who are responsible for 61% or more of their household income and are solo practitioners are the most likely to work full-time (32+ hours/week).
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Flutter, Chlöe. „A regional perspective on the French 35 hour week policy : tracing policy-making and implementation from nord-Pas-de-Calais to Paris“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1f981bd7-5f74-487c-be60-e8c481dcae4b.
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In 1998, the French Socialist Government reduced the statutory workweek to 35 hours. This work time reduction policy was implemented in response to the country's chronic unemployment problem, which had seen unemployment average over 10% during the previous decade. The 35 hour week sought to reduce unemployment by spreading the existing stock of jobs more widely and by stimulating job creation. This policy choice was received with considerable scepticism from commentators outside of France. Critics argued that the 35 hour week diverged too greatly from the international orthodoxy of a flexible and deregulated labour market and, given the convergence pressures caused by contemporary globalisation, would reduce French competitiveness. The implication was that governments no longer had the freedom to implement employment policy that diverged from the international norm. In this thesis, I reconsider this argument. I undertake a political economy analysis of the use of work time reduction policy in France from the perspective of the regional labour market of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. In doing so, I focus on the implementation of the 35 hour week policy in this high unemployment region. In addition, I focus on the regional work time reduction policy implemented in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, which predated the national 35 hour week policy and was the source of several of its key features. Thus, I provide a regional perspective on the French 35 hour week policy, an alternative to the 'top down' perspective taken by its critics. Throughout this research, I concentrate on three key issues: (1) the logic of work time reduction policy within the local labour market in France, using Nord-Pas-de-Calais as my case study; (2) the method of policy-making and the importance of geographic scale; and (3) the viability of France's work time reduction policy in the face of globalisation. My aim is to understand the policy process that led to this policy choice, to appreciate how traditions of economic governance influenced its formation and implementation in the local labour market, and to study how these traditions influenced the ability of work time reduction policy to reduce unemployment. I show, first, that French traditions of labour market governance, on which work time reduction policy is based, continue to have meaning in the local labour market, with the public continuing to demand policy consistent with its ideals. Second, I show that scale contributes to policy outcomes and policy innovation, suggesting the importance of geographic factors in the policy, process, such as the spatial match between the policy and policy problem, the transfer of policy between scales, and issues such as proximity and homogeneity. Third, I show that the success of work time reduction policy is largely dependent upon socially determined factors including effective negotiation, preferences between work and leisure, and empathy for the unemployed. Fourth, I show that the 35 hour week policy was not incompatible with international demands for labour market flexibility because it provided significant scope for productivity gains via its design and increased flexibility in the use of work time, albeit within constraints. Therefore, by examining the making and implementation of work time reduction policy in France from a regional perspective, I show that while globalisation places genuine exogenous constraints on the policy choices of government, there nonetheless remains considerable scope within these constraints, especially when implementing policy that is compatible with traditions of governance that continue to resonate in the local labour market.
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Anger, Silke. „Overtime work in Germany : the investment character of unpaid hours /“. Aachen : Shaker, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014789095&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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McKee, Clifford Martin. „The appropriateness of out-of-hours work by junior doctors“. Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335316.
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Enomoto, K. „Psychological factors associated with pain 24 hours post-tooth extraction“. Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1356884/.
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Background: There is a considerable variation in dental patients’ post-operative pain experience and analgesic requirements following identical surgical procedures. This has been related to a variety of psychological factors. Pain is one of the most commonly cited factors that is strongly associated with dental fear. Surgical removal of a third molar, the most common procedure in oral surgery and generally associated with dread, has received limited research attention. It is, therefore, essential to understand factors likely to influence the pain experience of patients in such a stressful setting. Such an understanding will not only help patients cope with fear and pain, but also will assist clinicians create a less stressful environment. This study investigated psychological factors predicting heightened pain perception in tooth extraction: dental anxiety; dental control; pain catastrophizing; expectation of pain; social desirability (defensiveness); trait anxiety and monitor-blunter style coping. Methods: The sample consisted of 306 participants (144 male and 162 female aged between 18 and 62 years with the mean age of 31.82) who were referred by their local dental practitioners for the surgical removal of tooth/teeth under local anaesthetic at the unit of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery at UCL Eastman Dental Institute. The tooth/teeth which needed extraction were not limited to the third molars. The variables were measured at four different time points: on recruitment (baseline: T0), before (T1), after (T2) and the following day (T3) of the dental surgery. The variables assessed were: dental anxiety; dental control; pain catastrophizing; social desirability; trait anxiety; monitor-blunter style coping; sensory intensity of pain, affective quality of pain, state anxiety and mood states. After the surgery, the dental surgeons rated the complexity of the surgical procedure and the perception of their patients’ distress levels. Results: It was found that pain 24 hours post-tooth extraction was best predicted by the levels of expected sensory pain together with post-surgery state anxiety, trait anxiety and expected affective pain. Expected sensory pain, in turn, was predicted by dental anxiety, monitoring and felt (perceived) control (i.e., the dental pain predictors). Moreover, dental anxiety was found to be a precursor to all the dental pain predictors. Furthermore, pain catastrophizing did not make to the primary dental pain predictors. Nevertheless, it contributed to heightened levels of trait anxiety and expected affective pain which sequentially helped to intensify perception of dental pain. In addition, it was revealed that dental surgeons underevaluated their patients’ treatment pain.
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Egger, Matthias. „Intermittent, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring during twentyfour hours in children /“. [S.l : s.n.], 1987. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Ask, Frida, und Sara Fransson. „Hundra år med åtta timmars arbetsdag : En kvalitativ studie om arbetstidsförkortning och framtidens arbetstid“. Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85582.
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Denna studies syfte är att identifiera arbetsgivares attityder kring arbetstidsförkortning, samt finna svar på om de ser det som ett realistiskt alternativ inför framtiden. För att lyckas uppnå vårt syfte har vi utgått från en kvalitativ metod med ett induktivt synsätt. Vi har intervjuat fem representanter från olika företag för att undersöka hur de ser på arbetstidsförkortning som fenomen. Resultatet visar att arbetsgivare både ser för- och nackdelar med arbetstidsförkortning. De största hindren mot att införa arbetstidsförkortning som våra informanter ser är företagens okunskap, känsla av osäkerhet samt risken för ekonomiska förluster. Fördelarna som de ser är framförallt att arbetstidsförkortning kan öka balansen mellan arbete och fritid, gynna jämställdheten i samhället samt att det är ett sätt att orka arbeta högre upp i åldrarna när pensionsåldern höjs. Resultatet visar även att arbetsgivare ser ännu mer flexibilitet i framtiden och att de idag inte ser tillräckligt stort behov av kortare arbetsdagar för att det ska bli en prioriterad fråga för deras företag. Om sjuktalen däremot ökar kan de se arbetstidsförkortning som ett alternativ även i deras organisationer.The purpose of this study is to identify the employers' attitudes concerning working time reduction, and find answers to whether they see it as a realistic alternative for the future. In order to succeed in achieving our goal, we have used a qualitative method with an inductive approach. We have interviewed five representatives from different companies in order to investigate what they think about work time reduction as a phenomenon. The result shows that employers see both advantages and disadvantages of working hours reduction. The biggest obstacles to the implement of working hours reduction that our informants see are the companies' lack of knowledge, a sense of uncertainty and the risk of financial losses. The advantages that they see are especially that working hours reduction can increase the balance between work and leisure, benefit gender equality in society and that it is a way for employees to be able to work all the way to retirement, even when the retirement age increases. The result also shows that employers see even more flexibility in the future and that they do not currently see sufficient need for shorter working days in order for it to be a priority issue for their company. On the other hand, if the sickness rate increases, they can see reduction of working hours as an alternative even in their organizations.
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Bratthammar, Per-Olof. „From 24 hours traffic to 1 hour traffic - Conversion of Göteborgs Stad Trafikkontorets static traffic model with support of Emme/2“. Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-96185.
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Syftet med examensarbetet har varit att konvertera Göteborg Stad Trafikkontorets statiska trafikmodell för dygnstrafik till en timtrafikmodell. Trafikmodellen har använts av Trafikkontoret för att göra analyser och prognoser av Göteborgstrafiken. Trafikkontoret har i detta arbete haft önskningar om att framöver även kunna genomföra analyser runt morgonens maxflödestimma, då belastningen på stadens vägnät är som störst. Arbetet med att utveckla Trafikkontorets trafikmodell har gjorts i Emme/2. Då Trafikkontoret använt sig av VISUM, har dygnsmodellen först fått konverterats till Emme/2-format. Modellen har sedan testats och jämförts med Trafikkontorets VISUM- modell. Det har funnits vissa avvikelser, men i sin helhet har konverteringen till Emme/2-formatet varit lyckad, och har kunnat ligga till grund för en timmodell. För att kunna omvandla dygnsmodellen till en timtrafikmodell har O/D-matrisen anpassas till timtrafik, och som nya V/D-funktioner har Vägverkets TU71-familj valts. Vid anpassningen av modellen till de nya förutsättningarna har Emme/2:s möjligheter till att använda makro utnyttjas. En genomgång av nätverket i kvalitetshöjande syfte har därför genomförts. Resultatet av konverteringen har blivit en medeltimtrafikmodell som motsvaras av den trafikmängd som ges under morgonens maxflödestimma. För att simulera morgonens maxflödestimma måste först ärendematriser införas i modellen, något som inte varit möjligt under projektet. Nätutläggningar med timtrafikmodellen har genomförts och resultaten har jämförts med nätutläggningsresultat från Trafikkontorets VISUM-modell. Detta har gjorts genom att timtrafikmodellens värden justerats upp på ett sätt som möjliggjort jämförelser. Resultaten visar en O/D-matris motsvarande 8 procent av dygnsflödet bäst efterliknar morgonens maxflödestimma. Modellen har bedömts vara värd att arbeta vidare med. I första hand behövs ärendematriser införas, modellen behöver sedan kalibreras och nya V/D-funktionerna från TU06-familjen införas i modellen. Metoder för kalibrering och tips för att arbeta vidare med modellen tas upp i diskussionsavsnittet.
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Anand, Alagamanna Aravindh, und Simarjit Singh Juneja. „Man-Hour Estimations in ETO : A case study involving the use of regression to estimate man-hours in an ETO environment“. Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-422186.
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The competition in the manufacturing industry has never been higher. Owing to the technological changes and advancements in the market, readily available data is no longer a thing of the past. Numerous studies have discussed the impact of industry 4.0, digital transformation as well as better production planning methods in the manufacturing industry. The Mass-Manufacturing industry, in specific, has gained efficiency levels in production that were previously unimaginable. Industry 4.0 has been discussed as the ‘next big thing’ in the manufacturing context. In fact, it is seen as a necessity for manufacturing companies to stay competitive. However, efficient production planning methodologies are a preliminary requirement in order to successfully adopt the new manufacturing paradigms. The Engineering-to-order (ETO) industry is still widely unexplored by the academia ETO industries, barely have any production planning methodologies to rely on owing to their complex production processes and high reliance on manual-labour. Regression techniques have repeatedly been used in the production planning context. Considering its statistical prowess, it is no surprise that even the newer machine-learning techniques are based on regression. Considering its success in the mass-manufacturing industry for production planning, is it possible that its usage in the ETO industry might lead to the same results? This thesis involves a case study that was performed at an electrical transformer manufacturing plant in Sweden. After understanding the several operations that are performed in the production process, regression techniques are employed to estimate man-hours. The results from the study reconfirm the statistical prowess of regression and show the possibility of using regression in order to estimate man-hours in the ETO industry. In addition, several factors that can affect successful adoption of this tool in the production planning context are discussed. It is hoped that this study will lay the foundation for better production planning methodologies for the ETO industries in the future which might subsequently result in more data-driven decision making rather than instincts.
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Morey, Nick, und Kathryn Matthias. „Appropriateness of Antibiotic Therapy During the First 72 Hours of a Hospital Visit in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia“. The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614253.
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Class of 2013 AbstractSpecific Aims: The objectives of this project were to determine the time to appropriate antibiotic therapy for community-acquired pneumonia, evaluate the appropriateness of antibiotic changes within a 72 hour period, and to determine the rate of re-admissions for pneumonia. Methods: A retrospective chart review of patients admitted to an academic medical center in March 2012 with a diagnosis of pneumonia was performed. Subjects under the age of 18 years or who were not treated for infectious pneumonia were excluded. Relevant data were extracted from the subjects’ electronic charts and recorded onto a data collection form. Data collected included antibiotics given within the first 72 hours and times of administration, laboratory results, culture and susceptibility results, radiology results, testing for coccidiodomycosis, reason for readmissions within 30 days if applicable, and demographic information. A descriptive analysis of these data was performed. Main Results: A total 100 subjects were included in the final data analysis with a mean age of 64 years. During the first 48 hours, patients were prescribed vancomycin (52%), azithromycin (48%), ceftriaxone (41%), moxifloxacin (30%), piperacillin-tazobactam (25%), meropenem (22%), and other antibiotics (26%). The mean (+SD) number of antibiotics prescribed within the first 24 hours was 2.5 (1.1). Either azithromycin, azithromycin plus ceftriaxone, or moxifloxacin only were prescibed in 21% of subjects within the first 24 hours. Within the first day, combinations of broadspectrum antibiotics (meropenem, piperacillin-tazobactam, cefepime) or a combination of ceftrixone plus either meropenem or piperacillin-tazobactam were prescribed in 6% and 12% of subjects, respectively. The appropriateness of empiric therapy and antibiotic changes is currently in progress. A total of 53% of subjects were discharged with prescriptions for extended course oral or intravenous antibiotics. While 27% of subjects were readmitted within a 30-day period, 9% of subjects were readmitted with either a diagnosis of pneumonia or related respiratory condition. One subject was readmitted within 30 days with Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea. During the initial admission, coccidioidomycosis testing was performed in 38% of subjects. Conclusion: A variety of combinations of antibiotic agents were prescribed to subjects diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia. Changes to antibiotic therapies were frequent and often without explanation. Readmission rates for a respiratory related illness within 30-days was approximately 9% and less than 40% of subjects were tested for coccidioidomycosis.
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Lee, Chi-kwan Anita. „From Mrs. Dalloway to The hours : bisexuality/bitextuality and ècriture fèminine /“. View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3160268X.
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Lee, Chi-kwan Anita. „From Mrs. Dalloway to The Hours bisexuality/bitextuality and écriture féminine /“. Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38628764.
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Cazares, Robert. „Pneumonia antibiotic timing within six hours after arrival and mortality rates“. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523080.
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Pneumonia is a serious clinical problem with associated high mortality and morbidity. It can be potentially life threatening in the elderly and in patients with other comorbid diseases. Its clinical spectrum ranges from rapid resolution of symptoms to severe medical complications and death.
At least 1.2 million people are admitted to the hospital with pneumonia each year in the United States, and approximately 10% of these patients will die within 30 days of admission. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, the majority of pneumonias respond well to treatment, but the infection kills 40,000–70,000 people each year. Given its public health significance, pneumonia has been the target of quality improvement activities for nearly 2 decades. This began with the publication of clinical practice guidelines in the early 1990s, was followed by a series of statewide and national quality improvement initiatives, and more recently has included public reporting and pay-for-performance programs led by the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other payers. The aim of the study was to examine the association of antibiotic timing and reduced mortality. Data from a retrospective cohort of 550 patients hospitalized and discharged with a diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia was collected from a community hospital located in Southern California. It was hypothesized that antibiotics administered within the first six hours of hospital arrival for patients discharged with a principal diagnosis of pneumonia is associated with decreased inpatient mortality. It was noted that this association was not supported.