Qualitative methods including in-depth interviews (with COs, nurses, doctors, hospital management, and policymakers, among others), participant observation and document analysis were used.
Six FGDs were carried out with altogether 37 participants comprising groups of AMOs, COs, nursing staff and medical attendants in the public health facilities.
The composition of interviewed HWs included clinical officers (COs), nursing officers (NOs) and other cadres of nurses such as public health nurses (PHNs) and midwives; maternal and child health aides (MCHA), health assistants and medical attendants, previously known as nurse auxiliaries [ 29].
A provincial hospital-based, high-level HIV/ART clinic used a team of one MD, 0.5 CO, one nurse, 0.5 nurse assistant, one counsellor and three PLWHAs to care for 800 individuals, implying 3.1 medical and 9.4 total staff to serve 1000.
As for the subscale on co-workers, nurses with an intent to leave the hospital were less satisfied than nurses who wanted to leave the country.
Co-workers nurse crushes for each other, fall in and out of love, and generally exist within the second-family dynamic that propels nearly every workplace sitcom.
As a resident, I have found it to truly be exactly that and have delved deeper into understanding this art, through the guidance of all providers: attendings, co-residents, nurses, and all staff.
Former classmate Paul Castree (that other redhead) recalls watching, during one of the first tech rehearsals for "9 to 5," Greenblatt, Mantello and Linda Wallem (the waitress at the Last Straw who is now co-writing "Nurse Jackie" for Showtime) and feeling 30 years disappear.
This affected both COs and nursing cadres.
How to ensure a qualified and co-ordinated nursing staff may be an interesting subject of research.
This model has been used elsewhere in the UK where patients with minor problems are redirected from an ED to a co-located nurse-led walk-in centre.
