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Abstract:

Employee empowerment is a valuable management tool used by organizations to improve and enhance performance. Whilst majority of the empowerment literatures concentrate on linear empowerment approach, the emerging multilevel (cross-level) empowerment has hardly gained research attention so far. Hence, this study used a multilevel model to examine employee empowerment in the health sector in Papua New Guinea and its link with perceived service quality. The study has adopted cross-sectional survey of 327 clinicians including nurses in four major hospitals in the country particularly Port Moresby, Kerema and Popondetta Genera Hospitals including Laloki Psychiatric Hospital between April and May, 2018. Multivariate regression and correlation analyses using EViews (statistical tool) show that structural empowerment and empowering leadership have a statistically significant influence on the employees’ psychology both at the individual and team (unit) levels, and in turn these have a significant influence on perceived service quality. Additional analysis of 22 dimensions of all five study variables (structural empowerment, empowering leadership, unit empowerment, psychological empowerment, and perceived service quality) indicate a generally weak to moderate empowering leadership practice in leading by example, participative decision-making, coaching, informing, and team interactive with an average of 3.5 on a 5-point rating. Furthermore, structural empowerment reveals that hospital employees have limited access to opportunity, information, support, and resources required to perform their roles with an average of 3.3 on a 5-point rating. Also, a reliable workforce was rated 3.7 whilst the appearance of employees and facilities including performance of equipment/materials rated 3.0 on a 5 point scale. The study outcome suggests implications for improvement by adopting multilevel empowerment frameworks to add value to the existing systems particularly within complex and dynamic hospital systems. 

Biography:

Patricia Catlin is nursing faculty at a rural Tennessee BSN program.  She also manages the campus health clinic and oversees a nursing van health education outreach through the college.  She has an interest in improving health through lifestyle changes. During her ten years in rural primary care, she has conducted weight loss and lifestyle improvement sessions to improve the health status of the rural population. As an Army Reserve medical officer, she educated soldiers in weight management through lifestyle changes.  She completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice implementing a healthy behavior program in a rural primary care clinic

Abstract:

Adult obesity in the United States contributes to several chronic health conditions and two billion dollars in health care expenditures.  Health disparities related to obesity is even greater in rural areas.  Objective:  Implement a patient-centered health promotion program in a rural primary care office to reduce weight-related health conditions.  Methods:  A convenience sample of 7 participants, age 1860 with a BMI ≥ 28, volunteered and completed the 14-week project.  Monthly group sessions and weekly individual sessions provided nutritional education, goal setting, and physical activity measures. Participants received a pedometer, food logs, and a journal.  Weight, physical activity level, fat intake, fruit, vegetable, and fiber intake and self-efficacy were measured pre and post intervention.  Results: Six had a 25% increase in their fruit, vegetable, & fiber intake and a 50% increase in physical activity level, a mean decrease in fat intake of 22% and weight loss of seven pounds.  Conclusions: Interventions combining goal setting and accountability with education on dietary choices and physical activity result in healthier lifestyle choices.  Implications: The findings support education on dietary choices and physical activity conducted in a primary care office can lead to lifestyle changes that will reduce some health disparities

Biography:

Monisola Yetunde Jane OMISHAKIN is an assertive and very dynamic goal getter with core competence in Nursing as a Nursing Administration Specialist and a Midwife Educator. She has her expertise in improving health and wellbeing and the progression of nursing profession. She is passionate about women’s health care and contributes to the training of nurses that take up these responsibilities. As a nurse administrator, her sub-specialty is Nursing Leadership and Quality assurance with focus on nurses’ capacity building and quality care delivery. Her exposure in teaching, research, administration and mentoring students has enabled her to  acquire knowledge and skills that will be useful in managing staff, students, clients and research activities irrespective of culture and other environmental factors.

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Satisfaction is one of the most important findings that service providers will enquire about from an individual consumer. The need for evaluation of consumer satisfaction with maternity care is increasingly important due to population explosion, rapidly advancing technology and expansion of healthcare services, discovery of new and complex complications as well as rising cost of healthcare. Patient’s satisfaction has been linked to quality of services given and the extent to which specific needs are not met. The purpose of the study was to assess clients’ satisfaction with maternity care and services/facilities among newly delivered women. Methodology: A descriptive study of 132 respondents who had utilized the antenatal care/services, intranatal care/services and postnatal care/services from the State Specialist Hospital, Osogbo. The respondents were selected randomly from the Child Welfare clinic. A self-structured questionnaire/ interview guide was used to elicit responses from the respondents. Findings: A reasonable number (65.1%) of the respondents rated the care received as “good” while less than average were satisfied with the maternity facilities available in the hospital. The aspects of care/services liked most were health education on diet, exercise, personal hygiene; level of expertise of the caregiver and opportunity to clarify doubts while the aspects of care/services disliked most were pain management in labour, implementation of birth plans and involvement of relatives in their care and sanitary facilities in the ward. Age of client, parity, educational background, pain management and cost of services were factors identified to affect client satisfaction.  In conclusion, ward managers should set standards of a level of care to be attained taking into consideration aspects of pain management in labour and encouragement at delivery, birth preparedness and complication readiness, postnatal care and sanitary facilities. Recommendations: Quality assurance/ control units should be established and functional in health facilities to maintain quality care

Biography:

Bisrat Zeleke Shiferaw is a senior Lecturer and researcher in department of nursing college of medicine and health sciences Wolkite University. He played a significant role in launching nursing department in the university and worked as a head department of Nursing (From Oct. 01-2015-Oct. 01-2016); for his contribution he won an award under the title of best department head of the year from the university. In addition to being a lecturer and researcher   he is appointed   as college registrar (i.e. College of Medicine and Health Sciences) since, Nov, 2016.  During all these time, he have gained and developed upon already solid clinical and teaching skills, and found the most successful means of educating to be in lecturer, researcher and participation session with students.

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Statement of the Problem: Gender based violence frequently occurs in institutions assumed to be ‘safe’, such as schools, where perpetrators include peers and teachers. School-related gender-based violence includes but is not limited to rape, unwanted sexual touching, unwanted sexual comments, corporal punishment, bullying and verbal harassment that is based on gender stereotypes which targets female students on the basis of their sex. It is a widespread barrier to girls’ attaining educational equity, which also brings with it many health risks. The study aimed to assess the correlates of sexual and physical violence among female preparatory students in Garage zone, Ethiopia.

Methodology: Institution based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on March 2017. A multi-stage stratified sampling with simple random sampling technique was applied. Data were collected using a pre-tested structured self-administered questionnaire. The collected data was cleaned and entered in to Epidata3.1 then exported to SPSS version 20:00 for analysis. Finally, a multivariate logistic regression model was created predict the correlates of sexual and physical violence among female students.

Findings: A total of 686 female preparatory students participated in the study, giving a response rate of 90.3 %. The finding showed that the prevalence of sexual and physical violence were 15.9% and 47.5% respectively. Forceful/ unwilling sex accounts 42(38.5%) from sexually active female students. Age group (i.e. Age<18 years); and monthly received pocket money were statistically significant predictors of sexual violence. Whereas, substance uses were statistically significant determinants of sexual and physical violence.

Conclusion & Significance: The study has shown that the prevalence of both sexual and physical violence among female students is found to be relatively higher. Thus, designing specific strategic activates towards early detection, identification and prevention of school related gender based violence through provision of different regular information and communication and empowerment of female students is implicated.