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@#<p style="text-align: justify;">Performance in the eight Nurse Licensure Examinations from December 2006 to December 2010 was analyzed to describe how graduates of colleges of nursing nationwide performed in the tests and to determine the factors that correlate with the examinees' scores. The study included all the graduates of colleges of nursing who participated in the eight Nurse Licensure Examinations. Data were collected through a review of secondary data from the Professional Regulation Commission - the passing percentage and average rating of schools, testing centers in the subjects tested and type of examinees. The variables from each NLE were categorized into Examinee variables, Institutional variables, and Program and Other variables. Based on the NLE results, the study concluded that those who took the examination for the first time (first timers) performed better, had higher passing percentage and significantly higher average rating than repeaters in all the NLEs. Among the repeaters, those who took the examination for at most two times showed higher passing percentage and average rating. Examinees from accredited schools also had higher passing percentage and average rating than examinees from non-accredited schools. Those from government-owned schools showed higher passing percentage in all NLEs and significantly higher average ratings in six (6) out of the eight (8) NLEs than examinees from non-government-owned schools. The study found that the accredited and government-owned schools had higher passing percentage and average rating compared to non-accredited and non-government-owned schools. Significant differences were found in the passing percentage and average rating of the examinees across regions and testing centers. Of the five subjects tested, the examinees performed best in Nursing Practice I and III. Their lowest passing percentage and average rating was in Nursing Practice IV. Number of examinees per school appeared not to have affected nor influenced either the passing percentage or average rating of schools in the eight (8) NLEs. The study reveals significant findings that correlate the performance of graduates of Philippine colleges of nursing in the 8 NLEs with selected variables and these findings may provide a better understanding of the issues and problems concerning the performance of examinees in the NLE.</p>
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Humans , Male , Female , Nursing , Nurses , Licensure, Nursing , AccreditationABSTRACT
Os acidentes escorpiônicos vêm se tornando cada vez mais frequentes, no Estado de São Paulo. Propiciados por condições ecológicas que lhe são favoráveis vão adquirindo paulatinamente um caráter urbano. Objetivou-se com esse estudo, caracterizar os acidentes por escorpiões no Estado de São Paulo, no período de 1998 a 2002, sob o enfoque da vigilância à saúde, correlacionando as regiões onde as ocorrências foram registradas, com o grau de desenvolvimento das mesmas, buscando, com isso, sensibilizar os serviços de saúde responsáveis pelos registros e pela intervenção sobre esses agravos, para a utilização de abordagens que incorporem os condicionantes do processo saúde-doença e novas tecnologias no desenvolvimento de seu processo de trabalho. Os dados de acidentes escorpiônicos, ocorridos no período sob estudo, atingiram todas as faixas etárias, porém a faixa mais expressiva foi a de 20 a 29 anos. O coeficiente de letalidade foi de 0,65%. A frequência foi de 3,5 vezes maior na área urbana que na área rural. Os dados revelaram que esses acidentes apresentam um padrão de sazonalidade, com maior frequência nos meses de outubro a abril. Tityus serrulatus foi o principal agente causador dos acidentes. A degradação ambiental consequente da ocupação desordenada do solo favorece a instalação de espécies que são dotadas de reprodução partenogenética. A distribuição espacial dos acidentes escorpiônicos revelou a existência de áreas onde a ocorrência é maior, assim como também as desigualdades sociais. Verificou-se a necessidade de mudança na forma de captação da realidade pela vigilância epidemiológica vinculada à superação dos saberes multicausais, que embasam as práticas de vigilância epidemiológica.
Scorpion accidents have gradually become more frequent in the State of São Paulo. Favored by ecological conditions, they have slowly acquired an urban character. The objective of this study was to point out the accidents caused by scorpions in the State of São Paulo in the period of 1998 to 2002, focusing on health vigilance, establishing a relationship with the regions where the occurrences have been registered and the degree of development between them. It aimed at sensitizing the health services, responsible for the registers and for the intervention on the injuries, to the use of approaches that incorporate the conditions related to the health-disease process and technologies in their work process. The data of accidents caused by scorpions, occurred in the period of this study, reached all age ranges, although the most significant group was found between 20 to 29 years of age. The coefficient of lethality was 0.65%. The frequency was 3.5 times higher in the urban area than the rural area. The data showed that those accidents occurred according to the time of year, most frequently from October to April. Tityus serrulatus was the main agent to cause the accidents. Ecological degradation, due to disorderly land occupation, promotes the installation of species endowed with partenogenic reproduction. The spatial distribution of accidents through scorpions revealed the existence of areas where the occurrence is higher, especially where there are social differences. The study confirmed the need for change in approaching to reality by epidemiological vigilance services, which is related to overcoming multi-causal knowledge paradigms which underlie epidemiological vigilance practices.
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Public Health Nursing , Scorpions , Epidemiological Monitoring , Animals, PoisonousABSTRACT
PURPOSE: This study is used to investigate the correlation among a stroke patient family's health, burden and quality of life. METHOD: Data was collected from one hundred twenty family care-givers registered at K and H Hospital in Seoul. Questionnaire data was drawn up by personal interviews aided by the staff nurses. The analyses of collected data are based on the rate of 100 percentage to the average, t-test, ANOVA, DMR, Pearson Correlation. Result: (1) The influential factors on physical health proved to be age, sex, academic career, matrimonial status, present occupation, economic situation, the relationship with the patient, the patient-caring term, and the family-formation. The psychological health issues were age, final academic career, matrimonial status, the relation with patient and the family-formation. Burdens were shown to be age, matrimonial status, the relation with patient, and the patient-caring term. The quality of life was determined by age, final academic career, matrimonial status, and the relationship with the patient, the patient- caring term, and the family-formation. (2) The rate of the physical condition was 2.87, the psychological condition 2.43, the sense of burden 3.08, and the quality of life was 2.42. (3) The rate of correlation between the burden and the quality of life was (r= -.547), the psychological health and the burden was (r= -.531), the physical health and the burden was (r= -.263), physical health and quality of life was (r= .301), psychological health, and quality of life was (r= .413). CONCLUSION: It follows from this study that there is a very close correlation among the stroke patient family's health, the burden, and quality of life. Therefore it is necessary that we should find various nursing intervention ways in order to mitigate the burden of family when caring for the stroke patients.