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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Acute Care setting"”.
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Fall Prevention Protocol in Acute Care Setting
… as many insurance companies will not reimburse care when a patient falls. As a hospital organization it is important to ensure funds are going to the appropriate places. Currently the metropolitan hospital had an increase of 6 falls from 2016 fiscal year to 2017 fiscal year. Through data …
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Patient Falls in the Acute Care Setting: An Institutional Analysis
<p>An index of falls risk characteristics was designed and applied in a retrospective review of the medical charts of 106 patients who fell and 109 patients who did not fall during the first six months of 1989 in a large, upper midwestem hospital. The index was used to obtain information described …
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Optimizing Engagement in the Acute Care Setting: A Nurse Driven Staffing Model
<p>Health care is on the threshold of major reform. Central to this reform will be the ability to maximize patient outcomes and resource allocation. The delivery of nursing care is essential to these concepts. Nursing care delivery impacts both patient outcomes and labor costs. Every aspect of care …
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The Inpatient Palliative Care Consult: Description of the Target Population in the Acute Care Setting
<p>Palliative Care is a new specialty that is evolving and developing an identity within the healthcare delivery system. Palliative Care encompasses a broader definition of the terminally ill then does the definition of hospice. Palliative care patients face life- threatening illnesses, may have 12 …
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Interprofessional Collaboration Between Occupational Therapists and Nurses in an Acute Care Setting: An Exploratory Study
… occupational therapists and registered nurses in acute care settings.</p> <p><strong>Purpose.</strong> To examine interprofessional collaboration between registered nurses and occupational therapy in an acute care setting.</p> <p><strong> Methods.</strong> A phenomenological, qualitative design …
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Examining Nursing Presence in the Acute Care Setting as an Indicator of Patient Satisfaction with Nursing Care
… would be useful in examination of nursing care outcomes, quality management and research. The Presence of Nursing Scale, PONS (Kostovich, 2002) was used in this study to test its reliability and determine its validity against a single-item measure of patient satisfaction with the care given …
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Association Between Nurse Staffing Indicators, Patient Falls, and Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers in the Acute Care Setting
… between nurse staffing indicators, direct care nurses' perceptions of staffing and resources adequacy, patient falls, and hospital acquired pressure ulcers.</p> <p><strong>Design:</strong> A non-experimental, descriptive, correlational design using secondary data was used.</p> …
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Factors contributing to falls in a tertiary acute care setting in Cape Town, South Africa: a descriptive study
… Patient falls occur frequently in the acute hospital setting and are one of the most common adverse events experienced by hospitalised patients. In-hospital falls have negative outcomes for patients, causing injuries in up to half of those who fall. Falls in hospital create additional …
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The lived experiences of registered nurses in the acute care setting who are intending to leave their hospital organizations
… the lived experience of registered nurses in the acute hospital setting who experience Intent to Leave their hospital organizations. This is important to study since professional turnover may lead to an inadequate supply of nurses. A qualitative descriptive approach was used based on phenomenology …
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Exploring the key elements required for midwives to develop a new model of postnatal care within an acute care setting
… key elements to improve the quality of postnatal care provided to women in a public hospital postnatal ward in Sydney and to attempt to implement a new model of postnatal care. Background Reports, internationally and nationally, indicate that women are least satisfied with hospital-based postnatal …
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The use of personalized whiteboards in the inpatient acute care setting and their effect on patient and nurses perception of communication
… patient to be active participants in their healthcare. </p>
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Fall risk assessment : A prospective investigation of nurses' clinical judgement and risk assessment tools in predicting patient falls in an acute care setting
Falls are a significant problem in acute care, hospital settings, and can have serious consequences, especially for older patients. Fall prevention has therefore been recognised as an important area for research and intervention. In order to target interventions and use resources effectively, a …
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Moral Distress: The Importance Of Support For Black And Brown Nurses After Encountering Racism From Patients And Peers In The Acute Care Setting
… and Brown nurses’ post-racism encounters in the acute care inpatient setting. Background: Nationally, it is estimated that 25% of nurses experience mistreatment by patients each year, but many fail to report these episodes (Campbell, 2016). The retention of Black and Brown nurses is essential, as …
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Transorbital ultrasound measurement of the optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) as a screening tool for raised intracranial pressure in an acute care setting in children
Background: Acute care management of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be challenging. Early and reliable diagnosis of intracranial pressure (ICP) in children following TBI is vital in optimizing outcome. Clinical findings of raised ICP can be non-specific and are often missed in minor …
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Patient Care Technology and the Nurse-Patient Relationship
… devices are increasingly used in healthcare and their proliferation has providers questioning the impact on the patient-provider relationship. Technological device integration has been studied in the primary care setting, less extensively in the acute care setting. The impact of device …
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A Systems Approach to Moral Distress in Long Term Care
… issues of moral distress within the Long-Term Care setting. Because moral distress has largely been understood as a phenomenon of the individual, efforts to address and reduce incidents of moral distress have focused almost entirely on the individual and his or her reaction to specific …
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Delirium: A CNL-Led Protocol to Clear Up the Confusion
… is a form of organ failure defined as an acute change in cognition, evidenced by altered consciousness and impaired attention that fluctuates over time, and is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare services utilization. In the hospital where this evidence-based …
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How To Provide Effective Pain Management After Cardiac Surgery In The Geriatric Patient
… on the elderly. The American College of Critical Care Medicine indicated that 82% of cardiac patients reported pain as the most common traumatic memory of their ICU stay. Pain is an important stressor in critical care settings. The lack of effective postoperative pain management impedes early …
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Quality Improvement Project on Patient Falls in a Medical-Telemetry Unit
… Nurse Leader (CNL) students. Falls in the acute care setting are a major issue in the current health care system and are a main topic of interest for CNL students to address in order to demonstrate their competency in risk reduction, health promotion, and evidence-based practice. A large, …
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