Leicester Royal Infirmary

Audit of operational noise at the leicester royal infirmary aicu

Introduction Ambient noise and its impact on sleep is an important factor in the development of delirium [1]. Noise is a problem on intensive care units, being one of the main environmental stress inducing factors amongst patients [2]. A key source of noise is the signalling of alarms. As part of plans to decrease noise, we investigated the number and appropriateness of alarms sounded overnight...

Blackburn Royal Infirmary

being 152 and the average number occupied daily 156.12, I would point out that your inference is quite correct. The increased number has been caused by additional beds having been fixed in the wards during most of the year. With regard to your last reference in the paragraph that the Report is without an index and that you had to read to the 18th page before you discovered the number of beds, I...

Manchester Royal Infirmary

The Lister Ward at Glasgow Royal Infirmary

The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1929–79

However, English nurses going to America and confused by the American educational and organizational system will find this not only a useful source book, but a comfort in the fact that although we are "two great nations separated by the same language", our problems in educating and providing a nursing service capable of meeting changing health needs are much the same. Not least of these is prov...