Peer Group Support Effectivity Toward the Quality of Life Among Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Chronic Disease Client : a Literature Review

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major infectious diseases in the world. There were 10.4 million new tuberculosis cases in 2015 and the number of deaths reached 1.4 million. This literature review described the effectiveness of peer group support to improve the quality of life of clients especially with pulmonary tuberculosis and other chronic diseases. This literature review used 25 electronic journals from over 100 International and national electronic journals published between 2006 and 2016, with the inclusion criteria of studies using peer group support treatment, tuberculosis disease and other chronic diseases treated with peer group support.The exclusion criteria is research using group method, but there was no resemblance due to illnes among client that follow the group method. Keywords used to find the journals were peer group support for pulmonary tuberculosis and “dukungan sebaya terhadap klien dengan tuberkulosis paru”. Search engines of this study were Google search, PNRI (Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia) and Master journals. Twenty five journals used in this literature review concluded that peer group support can improve quality of life of clients with pulmonary tuberculosis and other chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and HIV-AIDS, but some conditions need additional therapy to be more optimal. Peer group support can improve quality of life of TB clients and can be recommended as a variety of nursing interventions in controlling pulmonary tuberculosi

Bedside Nursing Handover: Patient's Perspective

Bedside handover is one of nursing care activities which involve patient during nurse-patient interaction a side of patient's bed between change shift. Patient may inquire all they want to know about their health condition, complaining and request for nursing care. However, the bedside handover often ineffectively run when a group of nurse hand in the nursing care plan for the following nurses shift. This study aimed to describe bedside handover activities based on patient's perspective in inpatient ward at one military hospital at Jember. This research used a quantitative approach with a descriptive survey design. There were 100 respondents recruited in this study using purposive sampling technique with criteria the patients had received nursing care at least two days in the inpatient ward. Data were collected using bedside report item survey questionnaire to measure bedside handover based on patient perception. The results showed the median of bedside handover was 33 (min-max = 10-40), indicated that the bedside handover from patient's point of view was in good category. Basically, the nurses have implemented the bedside handover, however there are problems occurred during its' implementation such as, high burden of nurse's work, limited time, lack of understanding and awareness regarding bedside handover. Patients have right to receive holistic nursing care, and it is the responsibility of nurses to provide excellent service including the action of bedside handover. Nursing manager should evaluate and supervise the bedside handover for all nurses routinely

Utilization of Agricultural Products for the Management and Prevention Stunting Through Empowering Health Cadres in Jember District

Background: Stunting is a problem that cannot be considered ordinary. Short toddlers (stunting) can occur due to poor nutrition and nutritional intake and lack of knowledge about stunting. Purpose: Transferring knowledge about how to prevent and manage stunting or short toddlers. Method: counseling and empowering health cadres by using tools such as LCD projectors and using leaflets and interactive discussions. Results: The implementation of this activity included advice and health cadre assistance in conducting health education to the community. Counseling for health cadres was done first to increase cadre knowledge. After that, support was given to health cadres to lead health education to the community around the village. Conclusion: After conducting mentoring activities on health cadres, which was a village program under the guidance of the University of Jember, it could increase the knowledge and motivation of cadres in conducting health education in the context of preventing and managing stunting infants