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The therapist in inpatient psychotherapy
Der Fokus dieser Dissertation lag auf der Untersuchung von Therapeutenvariablen in der stationären Psychotherapie. Die Dissertation ist in vier separate empirische Studien aufgeteilt. In der ersten Studie wurde die Unterscheide zwischen Therapeuten in stationärer Therapie getestet. Die Ergebnisse …
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Alcohol Use In Inpatient Psychiatric Clinicians
… prevalence of self-reported alcohol use in 59 inpatient psychiatric clinicians. Results indicated that 66.1% report current alcohol use, 30.5% report binge drinking episodes, 11.9% report harmful or hazardous alcohol use, and 10.2% report a history of an alcohol problem. In adjusted logistic …
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Fall Prevention in the Inpatient Setting
<p>Fall Prevention in the Inpatient Setting Abstract</p> <p>This project focuses on patient and family fall prevention education through an educational brochure. 4South is a mixed medical/surgical and medical/surgical-telemetry unit, specializing in dialysis and stroke patients. Since January 2017, …
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Improving Management of Inpatient Blood Glucose
… stay (AACE, 2015). This project aims to improve inpatient management of blood glucose levels by facilitating MD-RN communication through a reduction in the current reportable blood glucose level. This project took place on a 17 bed adult medical-surgical unit at a large academic hospital in the …
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Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes for Patients with Debility
Background: Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) goals are to optimize functional independence and discharge patients to community living. Debility, or deconditioning associated with hospitalization, is the fourth most common impairment group, accounting for about 10% of IRF cases. Objectives …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… on improving early sepsis identification on inpatient units.</p> <p>Nurse practices, knowledge, understanding related to sepsis was assessed, along with the hospital’s well-developed sepsis protocol. A microsystem assessment was performed on the inpatient units to identify the units' purpose, …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… sepsis screening and discrepancies with the inpatient units’ sepsis algorithm and the hospital’s protocol. The CNL students collaborated with the Director of the Sepsis Screening Committee to develop a “Sepsis Screening Observation Checklist” to ensure nurses were documenting the sepsis …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
<p>Sepsis is a serious complication, which is initiated by the body’s extreme response to an infection. If sepsis is not identified and treated promptly, it can rapidly lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. In order to reduce the number of patients who decline to sepsis in hospital, an …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… were ages 18-years-old and older from five inpatient units. The professionals in this hospital consisted of a multidisciplinary approach that included, but not limited to, a team of physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, nursing assistants and …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
<p>Sepsis is a medical emergency resulting from an infection. Its systemic effects can quickly lead to death if it is left untreated. The condition is extremely costly in regard to human life and national healthcare costs. In an effort to combat rising rates of sepsis effective protocols must be …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
<p>Sepsis is a life threatening medical emergency that if left untreated could ultimately lead to death. It is defined as the body’s extreme response to infection which can rapidly worsen if not identified and managed quickly. As sepsis worsens, it leads to extended hospital stays, poor patient …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong>Sepsis is a potential life-threatening emergency that can become fatal if left unidentified and treated. The body immediately initiates an inflammatory response cascade throughout the body. If sepsis is left untreated, it can rapidly lead to …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… hospital. The observations on different inpatient units and chart review conducted at the large metropolitan hospital led to increased awareness of gaps that prolong the identification of sepsis among patients; also to the creation of a sepsis protocol badge for nurses to use as a quick …
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Emergency Preparedness on an Inpatient Hospital Unit
… Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) student on an inpatient cardiac unit, Unit H, at an urban teaching hospital in Northern California, Hospital B. An assessment of the current state of emergency preparedness, a diagnosis of Unit H’s area of greatest needs, the details of planning and implementing …
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Recovery-Oriented Care and Inpatient Psychiatric Nursing Practice
<p>For the past 15 years, major organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and U.S. federal government have been committed to shifting mental health services from the medical model of care to the recovery-oriented …
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Admission Handoff Between Emergency Department and Inpatient Units
… patient from the emergency department (ED) to an inpatient unit, a handoff report is conducted. There are many ways the ED nurse can go about delivering this report to the inpatient or floor nurse. Each ED nurse tends to this task in their own way, providing the information they deem important. …
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Chronic Pain Management in the Inpatient Care Setting
… with nursing pain interventions on an inpatient medical surgical unit with a high population of patients with chronic pain (as much as 30%). Nurses and patients were surveyed using a brief survey to determine the baseline comfort levels of comfort with chronic pain management. The …
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Opening the Black Box: Understanding Adult Inpatient Falls
… period and included 24 participants: eight adult inpatients experiencing a fall event and sixteen registered nurses with direct knowledge about the adult inpatient fall event. Observation, participation, and ethnographic interviews were used to collect data in the research context of the …
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Recovery from psychosis: A mental health inpatient perspective
Background: Within the recovery literature there has been a drive towards obtaining service users' conceptualisations of recovery as opposed to medicalised conceptualisations, in order to inform service provision. The focus remains on community populations who have described recovery from psychosis …
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An outcomes study: Outpatient versus inpatient hernia repairs
… is no difference in infection rates between inpatient and outpatient hernia repair patients.
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