Hospitals, General

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Hospitals, General* ; Humans ; Outpatients*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of nursing work environment and job stress on health problems of hospital nurses. METHODS: The subjects were 200 nurses working in S general hospital in Gyeongnam, and the data were collected using organized questionnaire from Jan 10 to 25, 2015. The Korean version of the practice environment scale of nursing work index, the instrument for job stress, and the Korean version of Todie Health Index for health problem were used for measurement. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression. RESULTS: The nursing work environment was found to be slightly negative, and the job stress was found to be high. There were significant correlation among nursing work environment, job stress, and health problems. In addition, it showed that the nursing work environment and job stress of nurses were factors affecting their health problems. CONCLUSION: The nursing work environment and job stress are influencing factors on the health problems of hospital nurses. Multi-faceted efforts to create a positive nursing work environment are required. Further researches related to association between the nursing work environment and health problem of nurses are needed.
Hospitals, General ; Nursing*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between upper-scale general hospital nurses' experience of verbal abuse and job stress. METHODS: Subjects were 245 nurses working at 3 upper-scale general hospitals in B city and the data were collected by convenience samples using self-reported questionnaires consist of general characteristics, verbal abuse and job stress. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test and Pearson's correlation coefficients. RESULTS: The mean score of verbal abuse level was 2.2 points and job stress level was 2.5 points. Experience of verbal abuse and job stress among the subjects had a positive correlation, and verbal abuse against nurses especially showed a strong correlation with job stress. CONCLUSION: Results of this study show that nurses' experience of verbal abuse increases their job stress. Therefore, continuous education and training programs that are based on the case studies with coping method according to clinical careers and working areas are required to reduce upper-scale general hospital nurses' experience of verbal abuse and decrease their job stress.
Education ; Hospitals, General*

PURPOSE: This study was performed to identify the effects of self-leadership and job involvement on clinical competence in general hospital nurses. METHODS: The participants in this study were 443 staff nurses working in general hospitals and having more than 6 months of nursing experience. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. RESULTS: There were significant positive correlations between nurses' self-leadership and job involvement, and between nurses' self-leadership and clinical competence. In the multiple regression analysis, clinical career, type of department and self-leadership were significant predictors in explaining nurses' clinical competence and accounted for 28% of the variance in nurses' clinical competence. CONCLUSION: Study findings suggest that nurses' self-leadership is defined as having an important influence on nurses' clinical competence. In order to strengthen nurses' clinical competence, there is a need to develop education programs to increase nurses' self-leadership.
Clinical Competence ; Hospitals, General

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Hospitals, General* ; Humans

Hospitals, General ; Cataract Extraction

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of professional self-concept, job overload, and perceived organizational support on job involvement in clinical nurses. METHODS: The participants in this study were 232 nurses who were working in five general hospitals in city D. Data was collected using self-reported questionnaires from August 16 to September 15, 2016. The data was analyzed using the IBM SPSS 19.0 program. RESULTS: Job involvement of clinical nurses was influenced by professional self-concept, perceived organizational support, turnover intention, age, and monthly income. These variables explained 47.6% of job involvement of clinical nurses, and professional self-concept was the most significant factor in job involvement. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate that the job involvement of clinical nurses is influenced by professional self-concept and perceived organizational support. Consequently, it is necessary to increase professional self-concept and perceived organizational support for nurses' job involvement.
Hospitals, General ; Intention

Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Singapore

Hiroshima General Hospital dates back to 1947. Initially it was known as the Saiki Hospital affiliated with the Agricultural Association of Hiroshima Prefecture. It had 60 sickbeds and four departments-internal medicine, surgery, otolaryngology and dentistry. In those days, there were a large number of atomic bomb survivors in this medically underserved province of Saiki, so that the hospital was extremely busy treating these hibakushas. With the increase in the number of patients, the hospital kept expanding. It was not until 1979 when the number of beds increased to 270 that the hospital was reorganized and assumed the present name. Since then, it has continued to expand and its medical facilities improved. Having been accredited with the type B general hospital by Japan Council for Quality Health Care, it has now become the nucleus of the health care system in the western part of Hiroshima Prefecture, with 570 beds.By way of illustrating how our hospital has been involved in community health care, we will take a look at the trend of the number of emergency cases admitted at night or on holidays. Up until 1998, the annual number of such cases had stood at somewhere around 4,000 but in 2003 the figure exceeded 10,000. For routine physical checkups, electrocardiograms are used. In 1975, 1,800 patients underwent ECG tests and in 2000 the number leapt to 27,000. This author has taken it upon himself to interpret all these ECG records.The Department of Cardiology in our hospital had made it a rule to conduct noninvasive testing in diagnosis. In 1984, the x-ray examination system to make a diagnosis of circulatory troubles was introduced. In 1988 when the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery was set up, it started employing percutancous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) procedures and other interventional techniques. At first, coronary artery imaging was preformed on not more than 40 cases annually, but now the number of such cases surpasses 500. Interventional treatment is given to well over 130 cases, 85% of which have stents implanted. The initial success rate of intervention is 90.3% and the rate of restenosis was 35.8%. The cases of A-C bypass grafting performed at the department of cardiovascular surgery are increasing in number. Now the use of skeletonized artery bypass graft surgery with extracorporeal circulation at normal temperature has become standard procedure. By the use of the multi-detector row helical CT (MDCT), we are now studying coronary bypass patency and imaging quality. Except for some cases, it has become possible to obtain three-dimensional reconstruction images comparable to angiocardiographic images in terms of quality. We expect that MDCT will replace catheterization and become a standard noninvasive diagnostic procedure in the foreseeable future.We will adopt new thechniques and new therapeutic methods positively but not blindly placing too much confidence in state-of-the-art technology. Based on the fundamental principles of our hospital, we will devote ourselves to medical care, putting the needs of patients before everything else.
Hospitals ; Hospitals, General ; seconds ; Surgical aspects ; Electrocardiogram