RFP Journal of Hospital Administration

Statistics can be useful in every stage of practice. It may be with regard to materials being used, patients treated and for research purpose testing the efficacy of a certain treatment method. Statistical tests are not universal. Specific statistical test should be applied for specific purpose. This article discusses about what is statistics and various statistical tests used in dentistry.

Keywords: Biostatistics; PValue; Tests. 

Suture material is an artificial fiber used to keep wound together. Sutures are generally classified into four main categories absorbable or nonabsorbable, monofilament or multifilament. The size of suture material is measured by its width or diameter and is vital to proper wound closure. Suture removal timings vary from 3 days to 21 days.

Keywords: Suture; Absorbale; NonAbsorbable; Monofilament; Multifilament and Suture Size. 

Background: Hospitals are complex organizations that provide services to the patients seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Doctors and nurses are the human resources that spend a significant part of their time at the hospitals. They have to do regular work and overnight duty in emergency situations, with an extensive workload and stress which can negatively affect their performance and quality of working life (QWL). The quality of service provided by the hospitals is of utmost importance for improving its inpatient rate. So in order to improve the quality of its service and organizational effectiveness hospitals must ensure high commitment from its patientcare personnel which is derived if they experience a sense of job satisfaction that is directly affected by their quality of work life. This study was an effort to assess the quality of work life of nurses in the selected hospital. Materials and Methods: This crosssectional study was conducted among 85 nurses working in the selected tertiary care hospital recruited using simple random technique. The datagathering instrument consisted of two parts. The first part consisted of questions on demographic information and the second part had questions on quality of work life. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 20 software. Result: The study revealed that the overall quality of work life of nurses in the selected hospital was 3.27±0.49.When dimension wise quality of life was analyzed, the quality of work context, coworkers, development opportunities work environment were found to be good while that quality of work life/ home life, work design, and work world were found to be poor. Conclusion: It is indisputable that quality of work life plays an important role in bringing job satisfaction in employees. This study has explored the factors that are important for quality of work life for employees in a hospital set up. These QWL factors are family needs of nurses, working hours, nursing staffing, and autonomy of practice, management and supervision, working environment, attitudes of public towards nursing, and salary factors.

Keywords: Quality of Work Life; Quality of Nursing Work Life; Job Satisfaction. 

Police personnel had to perform overtime and shift work, suffer from disrupted sleep patterns, stress and may have high rates of tobacco and alcohol consumption than the general population forced to live physically inactive lifestyle, have irregular diet while on duty raising serious risk to their health. A study was conducted in Gaziabad District of Uttar Pradesh among to assess the lifestyle pattern with respect to dietary habit, physical activity and their knowledge, attitude and practices regarding non communicable diseases amongst the randomly selected 100 police personnel of Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary. Study found prevalence of high rates of hypertension (34.7%) and Diabetes (15.8%) were found among them. It was found that the daily vegetable, fruits intake in the personnel was less than five servings was seen among 74.3%. According to the analysis 71.9% of the police personnel were not doing the recommended 150 minutes of physical exercise in a week. According to the analysis 68.5% were either over weight/obese. The unfavorable trends for most major risk factors pose an enormous challenge and call for additional and timely action and policies, especially those of a legislative and regulatory nature and those providing costeffective chronic care for individuals affected by NCDs. Recommendations: Orientation during induction training of police personnel regarding reduction in alcohol use, increase in fruit servings along with other lifestyle modification measures may help in prevention and control of hypertension and other NCDS. Policemen also require periodic counseling and medical examination to remain healthy. Government to budget for private gymnasium memberships for officers and constables or build fitness stations within an area of the police department. The Police Departments may evolve wellness programme offer incentives, such as additional vacation days, for officers who pass a rigorous wellness test and may also to link fitness for next promotion. There is a need for nationwide multicentric studies to be conducted on the prevalence of diabetes and its complications amongst the police personnel.

Keywords: CHD; KAP; NCD; NHM; NFHS. 

Caring is the essential element of nursing. It maintains human dignity in health care systems as a moral principle and measure of intervention and treatment. In other words, a high quality caring is the right of all patients and a responsibility of all caregiver nurses. As patients are the recipients of care, it is important to identify their perceptions of caring. This was a descriptive, comparative, cross-sectional study to examine the relationships between patient’s perceptions of nurse caring behaviors and nurse’s perceptions of nurse caring behaviors in cardiothoracic setting. Data was collected using 24item caring behaviors inventory from twenty eight nurse patient dyads. Findings showed that, no significant differences exist in patient’s and nurse’s perceptions of nurse caring behaviors. Patients rated assurance dimension as highest while nurses rated knowledge skill dimension as highest. Both patients and nurses rated connectedness dimension as lowest. The results are useful in their own and in similar settings because they can be used by staff nurses to improve nursing care by refining the way they provide care to patients, and encourage nurses to ask patients about their expectations of care while in the hospital.

Keywords: Caring; Nurse Caring; Caring Behaviors; Patient Perspective. 

Introduction: Linen and laundry services are an integral part of the hospital support services and an indicative of the quality of Patient care. Service, Quality, Economy and timely delivery are the main aspects which have to be considered from an administrative point of view. Objectives: Keeping the same in view, the study was conducted with the aim to critically analyze the organization and functioning of laundry services at a tertiary care Government Hospital with the scope of outsourcing the laundry services. Conclusions: The constraints and the problems faced in the laundry were analyzed and the recommendations were given to improve the efficiency of laundry service. The authors conclude that the cost cutting measures should be taken instead of outsourcing the Laundry Services.

Keywords: Laundry; Hospital Linen; Hospital Infection; Outsourcing; Hospital Services.