PURPOSE To describe the extended Rehabilitation Complexity Scale (RCS-E) and its factor structure, and to determine whether it provides added value over the RCS-version 2 to identify patients with highly complex rehabilitation needs. METHOD A cohort analysis of prospectively-collected routine clinical data from 331 patients with complex neurological disabilities undergoing inpatient rehabilit...

The Permanente Journal/ Summer 2005/ Volume 9 No. 3 Carol Evans, RNP, MS, MA, has worked for ten years as the geriatric nurse practitioner member of the skilled nursing facility team in the Diablo Service Area in the KP Northern California Region. She also practices on a half-time basis in the Neurology Department at KP Hayward as a Parkinson’s disease specialist. E-mail: [email protected]. ...

Advanced practice nursing has evolved over the years to become recognized today as an important and growing trend among healthcare systems worldwide. To understand the development and current status of advanced practice nursing within a Canadian context, it is important to explore its historical roots and influences. The purpose of this paper is to provide a historical overview of the major inf...

Colleen Stukenberg is a certified nurse with more than 20 years’ experience from a variety of hospital areas, a master’s of science degree in nursing and specialization in health care education. The uniqueness of her approach to collaboration in health care is that she writes from her personal experiences developing a hospital post as a clinical documentation specialist (CDS) as the base for be...

Most nurses working in an acute hospital setting will encounter patients with chest drains and underwater seal drainage at some point in their careers. This article is primarily written for the non-specialist nurse who requires a good working knowledge of chest drain insertion and underwater seal drainage. The article discusses the indications for chest drain insertion and the merits of differe...

* Extracted from the research "Enfermagem de família: um contexto do cuidar", Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, 2008 1 RN, Specialist in Community Nursing. Adjunct Professor at Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto. Porto, Portugal. [email protected] 2 RN. Coordinating Professor at Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto. Porto, Portugal. [email protected] ...

We built on evidence searches developed for a comprehensive systematic review of evidence about staffing in emergency departments [4]. We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library using terms such as “substitute/nurse specialist/physician assistant/advanced practice nurse”, “skill mix”, linked with terms such as ‘‘emergency nursing’’, ‘‘Accident and emergency or emergency department’’, ...

This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a worksheet used by nursing faculty in a graduate clinical nurse specialist course to assist students in learning to estimate the cost-effectiveness of patient-education programs.1 The worksheet was found to be a satisfactory method of facilitating student learning and could also be used in the service arena to evaluate t...

evaluation of the factors associated with treatment process of leukemia and comparison with current related approaches in developed countries can present a good indicator to assess the weak and strong points in healthcare system of our country in leukemia treatment. the objective of this research is general and specific description of the challenges and shortcomings in iranian healthcare system...

Background. A Health Systems Nurse Specialist (HSNS) graduate curriculum uses a health systems approach to provide the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed by the HSNS to improve the health of various patient populations. "Nursing Informatics in Health Systems" is a course within this curriculum that explores the analysis and evaluation ofinformation needs and information systems in commu...