<div class="WordSection1"><p class="AbstractContent"><strong>Objective:</strong> Early warning system (EWS) is a physiological scoring to observe the patient’s condition not only in hospital wards but also in Emergency Department (ED). At an overcrowded ER that have slow of patient flow, EWS is use as an early detection of patient’s deterioration by observing the vital signs. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between nurses’ knowledge of initial assessment and the application of EWS at emergency department.</p><p class="AbstractContent"><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a quantitative study that used descriptive correlative with cross-sectional design toward 70 emergency nurses.</p><p class="AbstractContent"><strong>Results:</strong> The result showed there was a relationship between nurses’ knowledge of initial assessment and the application of early warning system at emergency room <em>(p</em>=0 .001)<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The higher the level of nurses’ knowledge, their behavior is better. It is recommended to maintain the use of EWS in ED that already good through training regularly (re-certification).</p><p class="AbstractContent"><strong> </strong></p><div><p class="Keywords"><strong>Keywords: </strong>Early warning system; emergency department; initial assessment; nurses’ knowledge.</p></div></div>
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious respiratory disease and still remains a significant health problem in Indonesia. Combating TB is paramount as the drop out and relapse of patients are still high. Generally, there are two types of TB patients, which are: TB patient category I and category II. Someone who never suffered and very first had TB treatment is the characteristic of type 1 whereas relapsed or have second (or several) times of treatment are the characteristic of category II. The aim of this study is to explore the experience of tuberculosis patients who had relapsed; TB patient category II. This research was conducted in Jakarta, Indonesia for seven months (March – October, 2014). The qualitative method with phenomenological approach was conducted in this study. Ten participants, with relapse case that are usually visiting the outpatient of pulmonology department in a respiratory hospital in Jakarta were selected using the purposive sampling and interviewed using semi-structured questions. The data were analysed using conventional content analysis and has been saturated. This study found four themes: the perception of tuberculosis, the impact of tuberculosis on patients, the challenge of TB patients during their treatment and the support from family. These results of this study can be used as the information for the healthcare professional, especially community nurse, to improve TB program such as, increasing health education program, so that the incidence of the relapse in TB patients can be reduced.
<p><strong>Objective</strong>: This study aimed to describe the diethary adherence in outpatient clinic diabetes mellitus type II Doctor Haji Marzoeki Mahdi Bogor hospital based on the schedule, type, and amount of food.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Methods</strong>: The design of this study used cross sectional with consecutive sampling method involving 109 respondents.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Results</strong>: The result of this study shows that most of respondent has non-adherence to diet especially adherence of food amount.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Conclusion</strong>: The recommendation of this study is to conduct further research on the factors that influence non-adherence of food amount.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Medical Nutrition Therapy, Diethary Adherence</p>
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