Intensive Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Routine Dyspnea Assessment
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Routine dyspnea assessment and documentation: Nurses’ experience yields wide acceptance
BACKGROUND Dyspnea (breathing discomfort) is a common and distressing symptom. Routine assessment and documentation can improve management and relieve suffering. A major barrier to routine dyspnea documentation is the concern that it will have a deleterious effect on nursing workflow and that it will not be readily accepted by nurses. Nurses at our institution recently began to assess and docum...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Critical Care
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1062-3264,1937-710X
DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2020711