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V A Lanara

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PubMed1996

Research and the discipline of nursing: a European perspective.

The significance of good health served by high quality health professionals in the United Europe is of paramount importance. Within the framework of the philosophical orientation of Europe, with its trends and visions, university education and research are discussed in this article as cornerstones for the development of the nursing discipline. Special emphasis is put on university basic nursing education for beginning nurse practitioners, along with the cultivation of fundamental human values and ideals inherent in the nursing philosophy.

Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗
PubMed1996

Terms used in Byzantium for nursing personnel.

It has been long recognised that Byzantium was the cradle of hospital care. Most of the hospitals, called Xenones, were annexed to monasteries. The nursing staff were either volunteers or paid personnel. Professional nursing personnel were used for the first time in Byzantium hospitals. Many terms were used to describe the personnel in these hospitals and this paper identifies these nursing personnel from Byzantine sources and provides definitions of their duties: deaconesses (diakonisses), ministers (ypourgoi) and ministresses (ypourgisses), nurses (nosokomoi-nosileftes), auxiliary nurses (paranosokomoi), hoteliers (xenodochoi), excubitors (exkoubitores), phlebotomists (phlebotomoi), parabolani (parabolaneis or parabalaneis), scribones and deputati (skrivones and depotatoi), and midwives (maies). The paper further demonstrates that for the first time hospital personnel were divided into categories; hospital administration was exercised by specialist personnel, the nosokomoi.

Byzantium↗
PubMed1994

Nursing absenteeism--one determining factor for the staffing plan.

The purpose of the present study was to quantify factors which contribute to the absenteeism of nursing personnel and affect staffing patterns. Absenteeism in a general hospital was studied for the period 1975-1990 in relation to the number and level of nursing personnel, the number of discharged patients in the same period, and the existing relevant policy. The variables were analyzed by the multiple regression method having an initial estimator the existing situation in 1990 and what is expected for the year 2000. The results showed that the mean value days of absenteeism for each registered and assistant nurse in 1975 was 22.4 days and in 1990, 51.9 days, sickness raised from 12.6 days in 1975 to 16.6 in 1990, maternity from 9.1 in 1975 to 25.3 in 1990, educational leave for registered nurses was 0.02 in 1975 and 3.8 in 1990 and for assistants 2.1 in 1985 and 17.3 in 1990 due to the new policy, and social fringe benefits raised from 0.71 days in 1975 to 3.65 in 1990. The expected rate of absenteeism by the year 2000 will be 67 to 83 days per person, an increase by 56% in relation to 1990 data.

Absenteeism↗