Bowel problem management among nursing home residents: a mixed methods study

Bowel problem management among nursing home residents: a mixed methods study

BACKGROUND Bowel problems such as constipation, diarrhoea and faecal incontinence (FI) are prevalent conditions among nursing home residents and little is known about nursing management. This study aimed to elucidate how Norwegian registered nurses (RNs) manage bowel problems among nursing home residents. METHODS A mixed methods approach was used combining quantitative data from a population-...

Evaluation of Nursing Management Internship: A Mixed Methods Study

Introduction: Enabling nursing students in clinical skills such as management is only possible through creating enough opportunities for obtaining and practicing such skills in a clinical environment. Therefore, given the importance of this issue and lack of information and backgrounds on the subject, this study aimed to evaluate management internship of nursing students through both qualitativ...

An international study of social engagement among nursing home residents.

METHOD data using the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) from nursing home populations in five countries (Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Japan, USA) were assembled from 396277 residents. The distribution of a new quality of life measure, 'social engagement', embedded in the RAI and found to be reliable and valid in the USA, was examined and compared in the international samples. RESULTS in all fi...

Antipsychotic use among nursing home residents.

in the contemporary era, in a trial of 45 852 patients with acute MI, neither a composite outcome of death, reinfarction, or cardiac arrest nor death was significantly reduced by metoprolol compared with placebo. More recent trials suggest that long-term -blocker use is not a necessity for patients without heart failure. While it is true that many patients were excluded from the propensity scor...

Nursing Home Residents