Clinical experience and nursing metrics have consistently identified poor documentation of fluid balance monitoring at Milton Keynes University Hospital, compromising patient safety and quality of care. This project aimed to increase the percentage of fluid balance charts correctly completed on the wards. Three areas for improvement were identified: understanding the importance of good fluid ba...

Clock gene oscillations are necessary for a successful pregnancy and parturition, but little is known about their function during lactation, a period demanding from the mother multiple physiological and behavioral adaptations to fulfill the requirements of the offspring. First, we will focus on circadian rhythms and clock genes in reproductive tissues mainly in rodents. Disruption of circadian ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the administrative and nursing care activities most performed by nurses in clinical/surgical units and to determine which are most and least pleasant to them. METHODS A descriptive-exploratory field study, with a quantitative approach and with a sample made up of 40 nurses working in clinical/surgical units who answered a three-part questionnaire composed of identificat...

OBJECTIVE to conduct an educational intervention with the nursing team members of an intensive care unit (ICU), aiming to increase knowledge and to introduce improvements in their practices regarding prevention and monitoring of delirium in older patients. METHOD this is an action research, in which workshops were conducted with eleven nurses and a nursing technician from an ICU unit in Salva...

Background: Dysmenorrhea is cramping pain and often followed by lowerback pain, nausea vomiting, headache diarrhea. Dysmenorrhearefers to the overall symptoms that arise during menstruation, there are2 types of dysmenorrhea, namely, primary secondary dysmenorrhea.is a cyclic menstrual without pathological abnormalities in pelvis iscalled Primary dysmenorrhea. There are 2 Management primarydysme...

The disciplinary focus of the nursing profession is to improve the quality of life and health of individuals, families, communities, and society (McCurry, Hunter Revell, & Roy, 2010). Contemporary nursing care is heavily influenced by knowledge development that is happening within a dynamic, evolving social and environmental healthcare context (McCurry et al., 2010). Risjord (2010) argued that ...

Fluid input/output charts in hospital inpatients are a valuable source of information for doctors reviewing intravenous fluid prescription, but are notorious for being incomplete and inaccurate. Lack of awareness of the importance of fluid balance amongst nursing staff and an excess of unnecessary monitoring are two factors contributing to the problem. We conducted a quality improvement project...