"You Think We are in the Stone Age, but We Have Already Made Progress-Where are You?": A Qualitative Study of Ultra-orthodox Women's Telemedicine Service Usage in Israel.

This study explores Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women's attitudes toward video-consultation usage in Israeli primary care settings. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-two women from diverse Ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Despite traditionally limited digital tool usage, participants showed readiness for video-consultations' adoption through dedicated 'kosher' medical devices.

A country's efforts toward creating an advanced practice nurse in public health.

Aim: The study goal was to inform the creation of a blueprint for an advanced practice nurse (APN) in public health.

Background: No internationally accepted standard for an APN in public health exists. Activities of public health nurses (PHN) traditionally have centered on health promotion and disease prevention, but many have added other population-based activities such as chronic and acute disease treatment.

Organizational commitment and quality of life at work among public health nurses in Israel.

Objective: To test the relationship between job satisfaction, professional self-image, work environment, organizational commitment (OC), and quality of life at work (QoLW) among public health nurses in Israel. To determine which variables can predict OC and QoLW among public health nurses.

Design And Sample: One hundred and thirty-two public health nurses participated in this cross-sectional study with a structured self-administered questionnaire that examined OC, professional self-image, job satisfaction, nursing work environment, and QoLW.

Family Health Clinics as a Source of Social Capital.

Purpose: To examine the extent to which Family Health Clinics (FHCs) contribute to the formation of social capital among mothers, and determine whether it is influenced by socioeconomic factors. In FHCs, social capital can be gained by relationships between mothers (bonding social capital), by relationships between mothers and FHCs team, or between mothers of different origins/culture (bridging social capital) and health services institutional bodies (linking social capital).

Design: This is a mixed method study.

Public Health Nurses in Israel: A Case Study on a Quality Improvement Project of Nurse's Work Life.

Public health nurses (PHNs) working in Well Baby Clinic in Israel's Haifa district were voicing great distress to inspectors-the impossibility of meeting their workload, feeling overwhelmed, poor physical, and technological conditions. They were feeling tired and frustrated and burn-out was rising. The district's nursing management took the decision, together with Tel Aviv University's nursing research unit, to conduct a quality improvement project based on issues that arose from meetings with focus groups on the nurses' difficulties.

Trust and the demand for autonomy may explain the low rates of immunizations among nurses.

Rates of vaccinations of healthcare workers with recommended vaccines are generally low in the developed countries. Our goals were to identify attitudes associated with self-reported vaccinations against pertussis and seasonal influenza among Israeli nurses in Mother and Child Healthcare Centers (MCHC) in the Haifa District. Over 100 nurses answered a self-administered questionnaire.