Recovery and special nursing wards

Mental Nursing in Observation Wards

Mental Nursing in Observation Wards

" What can there be more fascinating to the intelligent man and woman to-day than the study of disorders of the mind? What can there be more thrilling than the power to grasp the inner meaning of a mental disorder, to know why the intricate mental machine has jumped the rails?what more exciting than to exercise knowledge and skill to raise it gently into position again and once more restore its...

Compliance and frequency of nursing diagnoses registered in pediatric oncology wards with Nanda nursing diagnosis

Background & Aim: Proper recording of the nursing report indicates the nurse’s optimal clinical performance and compliance with the standards. Nanda Nursing Diagnosis is one of the most important and widely used international standard terms for recording nursing care. The aim of this study was to determine the degree of compliance and frequency of nursing diagnoses registered in the pediatric o...

Nursing Arrangements in Up-Country Hospitals and Infirmary Wards

Sir,?The question of adequate nursing arrangements m up-country hospitals, and also in the chronic wards ?* the more important institutions in large centres, is one which seems to have hardly received sufficient attention. In many cases the general attitude has been to press for a regular nursing service on European lines, and in the meantime to be content with the ordinary untrained ward atten...

Nursing dependency in registered nursing homes and long term care geriatric wards in Edinburgh.

There has been growing interest and public investment in registered nursing homes, apparently based on the assumption that these homes are the private equivalent of hospital long term care. We have tested this hypothesis in a survey comparing 400 patients in 18 registered nursing homes with 217 patients in 11 geriatric long term care wards in Edinburgh. The nursing home patients formed a distin...