October 31, 2011 Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, PhD
Introduction
Encounters with healthcare situations are generally characterized by fear, anxiety, stress, and uncertainty (Mitchell, 2003; Pearson, Maddern, & Fitridge, 2005). Most hospitalized patients undergo a certain amount of physical discomfort; they feel vulnerable, they may be in pain,...
October 31, 2011 Steven Rubino, Kathleen Kracht, MSNc, RN, CNOR, Lori Burnell, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, CNS, FCCM, Joseph Carney, RN, Cynthia VanWyk, MSN, RN, CCRN, and Zubair Nadiri
Background
The utilization of wireless telemetry monitoring with hospitalized patients is a concept that has been explored recently in hospitals (Freeman, 2009). The majority of hospitals in the United States, however, have not yet used this wireless technology to its fullest potential. This...
February 15, 2011 Linda Guarascio-Howard, MA, MS, PhD
Introduction
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August 31, 2010 Sue Hignett, PhD
Acknowledgments: Many of the ideas for this theory paper were formulated during an EPSRC Travel Grant (EP/GO40400/1) to the United States in 2009. Dr. Hignett was welcomed by academic, professional, and clinical colleagues in St. Louis, MO; Houston, TX; Raleigh/Durham, NC; and Ithaca, NY. She would...
May 31, 2010 Sanja Durmisevic, PhD and Özer Ciftcioglu, PhD
Introduction
Designing a hospital using evidence-based design (EBD) should be an attainable goal. More and more such information is becoming available, and designers should be able to find essential answers. Yet there remain numerous open questions regarding the most effective design solutions. The...
September 30, 2008 Carrie R. Rich, MS Candidate and Tama Duffy Day, FASID, IIDA, LEED
Purpose
The Need for Appropriate Hardware
Computers and information exchange play prominent roles in the delivery of healthcare services, and they are merging in a revolutionary way in the form of EHRs (Garrison, Bernard, & Rasmussen, 2002; Margalit, Roter, Dunevant, Larson, & Reis, 2006)....
