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Factors affecting provision of oral care by nurses in the intensive care unit at the Kenyatta national hospital
(University of Nairobi,, 2007)
Background: Intensive care unit (leU) patients have complex oral care needs.
Inadequate oral care may predispose ICU patients to nosocomial infections.
Recentinitiatives have sought to improve the qua1ityand evidence ...
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of registered nurses on scientific nursing research at the Kenyatta National Hospital
(2006)
Scientific Nursing Research is defined as the systematic process of investigating phenomena
related to nursing with the aim or adding to the nursing body of knov, ledge, to improve practice
and for better health care ...
Development of Orthopaedics in Kenya
(2007)
It is difficult to say at what point Orthopaedics in
Kenya broke away from general surgery. All over
the world, orthopaedics has developed as an off
shoot of general surgery. There are various forms
of practice of ...
Knowledge And Practice Of Basic Anaesthetic Techniques Amongst Medical Officers In Kenya
(University of Nairobi., 2003-04)
This was a descriptive cross-sectional study on knowledge and practice of basic anaesthetic
techniques amongst medical officers in Kenya. The study was undertaken following
approval by the Ethical Research Committee of ...
Experience with breast cancer in a single oncology clinic in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Combinations of anthracyclines and cyclophosphamide ± 5-FU are widely used in treatment of breast cancer (BC) in the adjuvant setting. Addition of taxanes is beneficial. For Her2-positive tumours addition of herceptin may ...
Epidemiologic investigation of a cluster of workplace HIV infections in the adult film industry: Los Angeles, California, 2004.
(2007)
The article is a controversial new finding. It provides evidence that a change in strategy is needed. in that preventive and targeted HIV counselling
should be given to adult film makers before and after monthly polymerase ...
Effects of use of latex rubber gloves by dental students at the dental school, faculty of dental sciences
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
Introduction: Latex is the material that rubber gloves are made of. The powder inside gloves and even the latex itself may elicit a latex reaction on the handler of the gloves or the patient. Latex reactions have become ...
Epidemiological characteristics of microbiological results on patients with infectious corneal ulcers: a 13-year survey in Paraguay.
(2004)
BACKGROUND:
This is a retrospective, chart-reviewed study of patients diagnosed with infectious corneal ulcers at the Ophthalmology Department of the National University of Asunción in Paraguay. The microbiological culture ...