Publications by authors named "Shu-Fen Ong"
Aim: The aim of this work is to explore home-based care nurses' practice experiences in order to understand their competency and needs.
Background: The demand for home-based care is increasing in many countries. Nurses perform a broader range of competencies with a significant degree of independence in home-based care.
Aims And Objectives: To identify and consolidate the available evidence about nursing-related competencies for home-based care.
Background: Over recent years, the demand for home-based nursing care has increased because of the need to meet the increasing need for chronic disease care to be delivered in patients' homes. However, knowledge is lacking about the expected competencies for home-based care nurses.
Background: Compare antimicrobial efficacy of a quarternary ammonium silane (QAS)/k21 as an intracanal medicament against E. faecalis and C. albicans biofilms formed on root dentin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Studies are needed to inform the preparation of community nurses to address patient behavioral and social factors contributing to unnecessary readmissions to hospital. This study uses nurses' input to understand challenges faced during home care, to derive a framework to address the challenges.
Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted to saturation with 16 community nurses in Singapore.
Background: Understanding the learning needs of patients with heart failure (HF) is important in reducing the incidence of HF-related hospital readmissions. Sociocultural differences are known to influence patient learning needs. However, most HF learning needs studies have been conducted on Western populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: to explore first-time mothers' postnatal experiences and support needs after hospital discharge in Singapore.
Design And Setting: a descriptive qualitative study was adopted in this study. Participants were recruited from a public tertiary hospital in Singapore.