Publications by authors named "Tung-Hsu Hou"
In nursing education, the diversity of clinical scenarios is complex and dynamic, and it is a challenge for nursing students to learn this clinical knowledge in conventional teaching mechanisms. However, integrating information technology into teaching can promote diversity of learning environment. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of teaching mechanisms which combined clinical simulation scenario and Information Technology Integrated Instruction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: To determine the impact of combining clinical simulation scenario training and Information Technology Integrated Instruction (ITII) on the teaching of nursing skills.
Methods: 120 4th-year students in a nursing program who were enrolled in medical and surgical nursing courses. 61 received innovative instruction (experimental group) and 59 received conventional instruction (control group).
Background: Most operating room (OR) scheduling is done by scheduling personnel based on experience or heuristics. Such often results in excessive overtime for medical personnel and poor resource-use efficiencies.
Purpose: This study was designed to employ an integrated OR scheduling performance evaluation model (IOSPEM), which integrates quantitative and qualitative multiple objectives, to the improvement of OR scheduling quality.
Background: Understanding the interactive relationships between demographics and work-related variables, job stress, job stress coping strategies, and job satisfaction for operating room (OR) nurses is important.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the stressors, the stress coping strategies, and the job satisfaction of nursing staff who worked in the OR and to evaluate influence of demographic characteristics on job stress, stress coping strategies, and job satisfaction.
Methods: A cross-sectional research design was used to collect data.