Introduction: Gastrointestinal anomalies are structural defects and incomplete or abnormal development of digestive organs can cause blockages, vomiting problems with bowel movements. Nurses identify implement nursing care for children undergoing gastrointestinal surgeries. The study was aimed at assessing nurses' knowledge practices towards caring gastrointestinal. Design: A descriptive design...

In the health area, technological and scientific advances are paramount for development of innovative technologies used in treatment diseases. Likewise, several categories also useful numerous activities organizational management, resources management (medicines, data information sets people, among other) field. Technologies essential work environments, but they have implications, directly, pro...

OBJECTIVE Severe sepsis survivors frequently experience cognitive and physical functional impairment. The degree of impairment and its association with mortality is understudied, particularly among those discharged to a skilled nursing facility. Our objective was to quantify the cognitive and physical impairment among severe sepsis survivors discharged to a skilled nursing facility and to inves...

PURPOSE The goal of the study was to understand the experiences of life among nursing home residents. METHODS Qualitative study was conducted using Colaizzi's phenomenological method. The participants were 11 people aged 76-96 years in two nursing homes in Korea. RESULTS Nine themes were identified: giving up on one self, growing apart from familiar relationships, perceiving the monotony of...

[1] The Greenland ice sheet has been the focus of much attention recently because of increasing melt in response to regional climate warming and can be studied using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) data. To improve our ability to measure surface melt, we use remote sensing data products to study surface and near-surface melt characteristi...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (1) To explore the effect of continued nursing intervention on hypertensive patients based on chronotherapeutics. (2) To identify the factors affecting hypertensive patients' compliance to the chronotherapeutics-oriented nursing interventions. BACKGROUND Chronotherapy provides a means of individual treatment for hypertension according to the circadian blood-pressure profil...