(n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-six patients with nasolabial cysts were treated at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1969 to 1986.
(2) Figures for the Royal Infirmary, Perth, the main referral hospital for the county, are also given for comparison.
(3) Investigations are under way at 13 hospital trusts – including Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville and Leeds General Infirmary – but Jeremy Hunt said new inquiries could be launched after the Metropolitan police found "further relevant information" about Savile.
(4) A series of 155 patients who underwent nephrectomy for renal carcinoma between 1965 and 1985 at Manchester Royal Infirmary were analysed for survival in relationship to presenting features, surgical staging and histopathology.
(5) The implementation of resource management at the Radcliffe Infirmary made clinical managers responsible for their ward budgets.
(6) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(7) All 197 patients admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary during the 16 year period 1970-1985, and diagnosed as having Dukes' A colorectal cancers, were studied.
(8) A clinico-pathological review of 520 patients with hepatic cirrhosis coming to necropsy at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow over the period 1900-69 is reported.
(9) We encountered three such lesions over 2 years in the Massachusetts Eye Ear Infirmary, and another was retrieved from the recent files.
(10) Simon Bailey, professor of paediatric neuro-oncology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, said: "To make real progress in treatment there needs to be urgent, significant funding.
(11) Looking back through old copies of 'NATNews' of twenty years ago we found an article by W. D. Mackennan, then Consultant Dental Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
(12) Knowledge of HIV and knowledge of, attitudes to and use of the condom were assessed by a survey of a sample of 778 heterosexual patients attending the genito-urinary medicine clinic at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
(13) Data was collected prospectively on all patients from one health district attending the Hand Unit at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary to determine the needs for hand surgery and the resources utilised to meet them.
(14) Leicester Royal Infirmary bosses admitted the failure after Lydia Spilner was admitted in January last year with a suspected chest infection and dehydration.
(15) Fifteen years after a partial maxillectomy and radiation therapy for left antral carcinoma, a 53-year-old woman presented to the Eye Plastics and Orbit Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, with phthisis and a large, black corneal lesion in the left eye.
(16) The suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds general infirmary and the subsequent battle to restart operations is a foretaste of what will become a familiar chain of events in the NHS post Mid-Staffordshire.
(17) In response to a previous study of GPs' and consultants' satisfaction with orthopaedic outpatient referrals, orthopaedic surgeons at Doncaster Royal Infirmary made themselves available for telephone consultations with general practitioners (GPs) at advertised times.
(18) We have examined the prevalence and nature of chronic liver disease among 538 patients with functioning renal allografts managed at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, between 1980 and 1989.
(19) Three investigations were launched at Stoke Mandeville, Leeds general infirmary and Broadmoor hospital after details emerged about cases of alleged abuse by Savile in hospitals.
(20) "However, the fact that we have dealt with other cases against the same hospital in similar circumstances is of great concern and we are urging the trust to prove to the local community it serves that real improvements have since been made to elderly patient care at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
Nursing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurse
(a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(2) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(4) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(5) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(6) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(8) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
(9) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(10) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.
(11) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
(12) The nurse is in an optimal position to plan and deliver a program and determine its effectiveness.
(13) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(14) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(15) The findings reported here suggest that if women nurse exclusively for the 1st half year, maintaining night nursing after introducing supplements is important.
(16) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(17) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
(18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(19) Of the 88 evening-shift cardiac arrests during this time, one specific nurse (Nurse 14) was the care giver for 57 (65%).
(20) Information from nurses differs from that provided by attending physicians.