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Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-120). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

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Mixade vårdsalar, det vill säga där man blandar män och kvinnor, är något som förkommer på sjukhusen runt om i landet och bör uppmärksammas utifrån patientens perspektiv då denne är i beroendeställning av sjukvården och dess vårdmiljö. Det blir allt vanligare att sjukhusen idag har mixade vårdsalar, detta oftast på grund av tids- och platsbrist. Studiens syfte var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av att vårdas på mixad vårdsal på en akut sjukvårdsavdelning inom nedre kirurgi. Studien var kvalitativ med fenomenologisk ansats. En intervjustudie med femton patienter som hade vårdats på mixad vårdsal genomfördes och i resultatet framkom att majoriteten av patienterna upplevde det positivt att vårdas på mixad vårdsal. Patienterna upplevde en bättre stämning, mjukare jargong och en lugnare atmosfär. Det visade sig också att några inte hade reflekterat över den mixade vårdsalen. De menade att det var någonting helt normalt och att alla strävade mot samma mål, att bli friska. Dock var det några få som kände sig chockade av upplevelsen och upplevde det som integritetskränkande. Sammanfattningsvis påvisade studiens resultat att mixade vårdsalar sågs som en positiv upplevelse och något som flera patienter kunde tänka sig i fortsättningen. / Mixed sex-wards, where you mix men and women, occur in hospitals around Sweden and should be recognized by the patient´s perspective when they are in a position of the medical and healthcare environment. Today it is becoming increasingly common for hospitals to have mixed sex-wards, this is usually because the lack of time and space. The study's purpose was to describe patients' experiences of care in a mixed sex-ward on an acute medical department of the lower surgery. The study was qualitative with a phenomenological approach. An interview study with fifthteen patients who had been cared for in a mixed sex-ward was conducted. The result showed that most patients felt positive when cared for in mixed sex ward. It turned out that they experienced a better atmosphere, softer jargon and a calmer ambience. It also emerged that some had not reflected on the mixed sex ward. They argued that there was something quite normal and that all patients towards the same goal, to get well. However, it was a few who felt traumatized by the experience and felt a violation of integrity. In conclusion, the study´s results showed that the mixed sex-wards were seen as a positive experience and something that many patients would consider in the future.

Thesis (M. Nurs.)--Victoria University (Melbourne, Vic.), 2008.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-05-18T14:51:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 julianasimilideoliveira.pdf: 14473428 bytes, checksum: f7d4af1f39396806e0f20249a29253af (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-01T18:48:48Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 julianasimilideoliveira.pdf: 14473428 bytes, checksum: f7d4af1f39396806e0f20249a29253af (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-01T18:48:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 julianasimilideoliveira.pdf: 14473428 bytes, checksum: f7d4af1f39396806e0f20249a29253af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-07 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Os espaços contemporâneos da saúde apontam para um novo desenho, baseado na relação mais humana com o usuário, em que todos os envolvidos no cuidado com a saúde são valorizados durante a concepção arquitetônica do edifício. Neste sentido, a arquitetura dos espaços de saúde ultrapassa a composição técnica, simples e formal dos ambientes, uma vez que a Humanização passa a considerar as situações não construídas, delimitadas por um espaço e tempo e vivenciadas por uma grupalidade, com seus valores culturais e relações sociais. No caso particular das enfermarias pediátricas, há de se compreender que as crianças e os adolescentes hospitalizados apresentam outras necessidades, não médicas, que precisam ser atendidas com igual relevância. Tendo estes dados como pressupostos, o trabalho objetiva investigar como o ambiente construído pode contribuir para a humanização de espaços de saúde, em particular de enfermarias pediátricas, gerando diretrizes para projetos futuros. Esta dissertação caracteriza-se como sendo uma Pesquisa Exploratória, com uma abordagem interdisciplinar e qualitativa. Apoiou-se na literatura multidisciplinar do tema e nos estudos de campo, tendo como referência as técnicas e instrumentos da Avaliação Pós-Ocupação. O estudo foi realizado em duas enfermarias pediátricas de hospitais gerais de Juiz de Fora, com atendimento público ou filantrópico e investigou três tipos de usuários: pacientes, acompanhantes e funcionários. Analisou-se a arquitetura enquanto elemento colaborador para a qualidade da vivência de seus usuários e foram levantadas opiniões sobre o local ideal para o cuidado, apontando os novos desafios perante a abordagem mais humana. Concluiu-se então que para efetivar a humanização em ambientes de saúde é preciso esforços multidisciplinares. Aponta-se ainda para a necessidade de os projetos de arquitetura considerarem, antes de tudo, os indivíduos que neles habitarão, orientando e planejando espaços que facilitem sua vivência, em todos os aspectos, respeitando a individualidade e as particularidades de cada tipo de usuário envolvido no processo de produção da saúde. / The contemporary spaces of health that points to a new design are based on a more human relationship with the user, in which all those involved in health care are valued during the architectural design of the building. In this sense, the architecture of health areas goes beyond the technical simple and formal composition, of these environments, once the Humanization aims to consider situations which are not built, delimited by a space and time experienced by groups taking their cultural values and social relations into consideration. In the particular case of the pediatric wards, one has to understand that children and adolescents hospitalized have needs other than simply medical, which must be met with equal importance. Taking these data as assumptions, this paper aims to investigate how the built environment can contribute to the humanization of health areas, particularly pediatric wards, creating guidelines for future projects. This work is characterized as an Exploratory Research, with an interdisciplinary as well as a qualitative approach. It leans on the multidisciplinary literature on the subject and field studies, with reference to the techniques and tools of Post-Occupancy Evaluation. The study was conducted in two pediatric wards of general hospitals in Juiz de Fora, with public or charitable service where the three following types of users were investigated: patients, caregivers and staff. The architecture as an element contributing to the quality of the experience of its users was analyzed as well as opinions have been raised about the ideal place for such care, pointing to new challenges facing a most humane approach. It was concluded then that for effective humanization of healthcare environments multidisciplinary efforts will be needed. This study also points to the need for architectural designs to be considered, first of all the individuals who inhabit them, guiding and planning spaces that facilitate their experience in all aspects, respecting the individuality and particularities of each type of user involved in the production process of healthcare.

This thesis investigates how a closure of a maternity ward affects the moves intoand out of a municipality. The policy focus of a centralization of maternal care in Sweden may bring unseen consequences that matter for society in a larger sense than only births. By treating closeness to a maternity ward as a positive amenity for a municipality, these closures introduce an exogenous variation that is used to estimate how moves change over time. With the lack of data availability, utilizing Sweden’s administrative areas, the lack of data over amenities as well as other factors such as employment possibilities are compensated for, revealing the possibility of using similar areas as potential substitutes for amenities. The results indicate that closures are likely to introduce a lower mobility for the regions as both fewer moves in and fewer moves out are revealed in the estimates. The results are strongly significant, a one minute increase of travel time would be associated with a decrease of around 3 moves in and 2.7 moves out. These results are mostly robust, and findings suggest north and south of Sweden are fundamentally different.

No / This research aims to develop a better understanding of how cardiology patients experience the care provided by community pharmacy after discharge from hospital. • Contact with community pharmacists is infrequent and can be via a proxy. Patients’ experiences of community pharmacy care are limited and many patients have unmet medicines use support needs. • Community pharmacy misses opportunities to support patients in their medicines use after hospital discharge