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Factors Influencing Provision of Care to Hospitalized Peadiatrics Burn Patients: A Qualitative Study Among Nurses in Muhimbili National Hospital Dar es salaam, Tanzania
No full textThe increase number of burn patients‘ admission in Muhimbili National Hospital indicated that burn injury is still a problem in our setting. In July 2011 up to June 2012 a total of 6135 paediatrics patients were admitted in MNH due to various diseases of which 319 patients were admitted due to burn injury. This is equal to 5.2% of all paediatrics admission (unpublished report). However hospital management made good coordination and availability of working equipments in order to archive optimal care for paediatric burn patients. Even though Health care providers especially nurse were facing some difficulties in provision of burn care. The main objective of this study was to explore nurses‘ perceptions on factors influencing provision of care to pediatric burn patients among nurses at Muhimbili National Hospital. Five in depth interviews were conducted in order to explore nurses‘ perception on factors that may influence provision of nursing care to hospitalized pediatric burn patients. This study was conducted from May 2012 to June 2012 in MNH. Simple observation method was used to complement data obtained through in-depth interviews. The study informants were sampled by using purposive sampling procedure. Data was analyzed by using content analysis approach. Findings The present study revealed two major categories which include motivating factors and barriers in provision of burn care. Participants described the use of closed method of wound dressing as an important skill that accelerates healing, decrease risk of wound contamination and decreased number of contractures. Presence of team work in burn care, facilitated patients recovery through reviewed and discussed management of patients as a team. Availability of equipments helped nurses to perform nursing care smoothly. Furthermore, participants felt gratified and increased work performance when they saw patients who sustained very severe burn injury recovering and going back home. Despite the fact that burn care was found somehow successfully in Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), participants revealed several factors that hindered provision of care. These factors include limited resources, patient workload, and lack of standard skills. Participants described that there were limited human and non human resources, such as shortage of staffing which resulted into overworking, physical and emotional exhaustion among nurses, lack of water which is the mainstay of infection prevention control, lack of specimen equipment like pus swab. Since burn patient are at risk of infection therefore they need to take pus swab frequently. Nevertheless, participants expressed that they lack standard skills on burn care since there was no special training on burn care. Instead they were teaching themselves in the sense that experienced nurses in burn unit were teaching new nurses who came to work in burn unit. The finding of this study revealed that there are both positively and negatively factors that influence provision of burn care. Positive factor (motivation) needed to be maintained but action is required to be taken in order to reduce negative factors. More public health enlightenment is needed on prevention and initial intervention for burns in children. Community need to be aware that prevention of burn should be a priority since caring for burnt patient is very expensive. Further studies are needed in large population since this information is not conclusive to factors influence burn care in Tanzania.\ud
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Author, Geraldine Brooks at the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author, Geraldine Brooks during her visit to the National Library of Australia for the 2009 Ray Mathew Lecture, Canberra, 23 October 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Ventriloquism Days: In Conversation with David Mathew
No full textDavid Mathew is the author of three novels – O My Days, Creature Feature, and most recently Ventriloquists – and a volume of short stories entitled Paranoid Landscapes. His wide areas of interest include psychoanalysis, linguistics, distance learning, prisons and online anxiety. With approximately 600 published pieces to his name, including a novel based on his time working in the education department of a maximum security prison (O My Days), he has published widely in academic, journalistic and fiction outlets. In addition to his writing, he co-edits The Journal of Pedagogic Development (at the University of Bedfordshire, UK), teaches academic writing, and he particularly enjoys lecturing in foreign countries and learning about wine. He is a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and Allied Professionals, Evidence Informed Policy and Practice in Education in Europe (EIPPEE), and the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing. He was also a member of The Health Technology Assessment programme (www.hta.ac.uk), as part of the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre at the University of Southampton (2009-2013). We met at his home in the south-east of England in November 2014 to discuss his approaches to writing and his new novel, Ventriloquists
Fifty Forensic Fables
No full textThis book does for the legal profession in England what George Ade's fables do more broadly. These are enjoyable tales with pleasing caricatures. All the actors are humans. A funny appendix follows The Story of an Ancient Line through twelve generations. The book shows what fable meant earlier in this century.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)O (Theo Mathew
Testing rainwater collected in tanks using the H2S method
No full textRainwater harvesting is common practice in many places throughout the world. It is often the only source of drinking water for many remote areas of the developed and developing countries. Rainwater thus collected was found to be susceptible to bacterial contamination and maintaining the quality of rainwater is the interest of the householder. Only an on-site method that is affordable to the householders enables regular checking of this drinking water source.
In order to test the efficiency of the H2S method, an affordable and convenient on-site method, rainwater samples were tested from a total of 221 tanks from the households around the city of Perth, capital of, and Collie, a mining town in Western Australia. The general condition and the maintenance pattern of the tanks were assessed through a questionnaire. The efficiency of the H2S method was tested against the presence of total coliform and faecal coliform bacteria, determined by the standard membrane filtration method. The agreement of the results from the H2S method and the standard methods was greater at a coliform count of >10CFU/100mL, which indicated that the H2S method is a suitable method for remote communities and countries where coliform counts greater than 10CFU/100mL is considered as standard for microbial contamination
The Psalter in the Description of Jesus’ Passion from the Gospel of St. Mathew
No full textThe author focuses on the quotations from the psalms that we find in the description of Jesus’ Passion in the Gospel of St. Mathew. It turns out that almost all the quotations from the psalms (with the exception of 26, 64: Ps 109, 1 LXX) stress the human nature of Jesus, i.e. they are anthropologically oriented. The author discusses each of the seven quotations in the context of the psalm, and then in the context of Jesus’ Passion. Following partly the Gos¬pel of St. Mark, St. Mathew enhances in the reader a belief that Jesus in His Passion is the Suffering Just and the suffering poor Jehovah
Further Forensic Fables
No full textI had earlier found Fifty Forensic Fables, though in a republication by the original publisher in 1949. See my comments there. Again, these stories had all appeared in the Law Journal. Before the thirty fables, this volume, like the first, offers a table of cases cited and a table of statutes. Again, each story has an enjoyable newspaper-like caricature. One can get a good sense of these stories, I believe, by trying the second and third of them. In The Industrious Youth and the Stout Stranger (5), a con man looking like W.C. Fields hires the industrious youth and then borrows a sum of money from him. Of course the industrious youth never sees him again. In Mr. Whitewig and the Rash Question (9), the young Mr. Whitewig has established a very strong case when he asks one question too many of the Police Inspector, i.e., why he arrested the defendant. That question produces the records of nine previous convictions. There are twenty-six pages given to an index starting on 107. The covers are heavy boards with titles pasted on.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)By O (Theo Mathew
A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia [electronic resource] : with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States. By Mathew Carey.
No full textAlso issued as the fifth title in: Select pamphlets: viz. 1. Lessons to a young prince .. Philadelphia : Published by Mathew Carey, 1796 (Evans 31172).Two states noted. In one, the last word on p. 61 is "un-". In the other, the last word is "'till".Partial list of those who died in Philadelphia between August and November, 1793, p. 100-103.Statistics gathered in Philadelphia, August to November, 1793, including meteorological observations compiled by David Rittenhouse, [9] p. at end.Signatures: [A]p4s B-Np4s Op2s Pp2sEvans,Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
[Freeman Hunt, half-length portrait, slightly to the left]
No full textJournalist, author, publisher.Manuscript label on cover glass: Mr. Hunt.Scratched on back of plate: 399.Edges trimmed.Original served by appointment only.Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153).Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
Author Correction: Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants (Nature Microbiology, (2019), 4, 7, (1183-1195), 10.1038/s41564-019-0426-5)
No full textIn the version of this Article originally published, the name of the author ‘Mathew Robert Brown’ was incorrectly written as ‘Mathew Brown’ in the main author list and as ‘Matthew Brown’ in the Global Water Microbiome Consortium list. In addition, in the Global Water Microbiome Consortium list, the names of the authors ‘Kevin F. Boehnke’, ‘Janeth Sanabria’ and ‘Adalberto Noyola’ were incorrectly written as ‘Kevin Boehnke’, ‘Janeth Sanabria Gómez’ and ‘Adalberto Noyola Robles’, respectively. The names have now been corrected and the author initials in the author contributions section updated accordingly
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