OBJECTIVES This study aimed to promote quality end-of-life (EOL) care for nursing home residents, through the establishment of advance care plan (ACP) and introduction of a new care pathway. This pathway bypassed the emergency room (ER) and acute medical wards by facilitating direct clinical admission to an extended-care facility. DESIGN An audit on a new clinical initiative that entailed the...

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine whether the position of ‘after hours clinical support enrolled nurse’ is embracing clinical skill extension in the acute surgical area. Design: Experienced enrolled nurses employed in a supernumerary capacity documented all activities with which they were engaged over a six-month period. Setting: Six surgical wards within a tertiary referral...

introduction: burns can be very destructive, and severely endanger the health and lives of humans. it maybe cause disability and even psychological trauma in individuals. . such an event can also lead to economic burden on victim’s families and society. the aim of our study is to evaluate epidemiology and outcome of burn patients referring to emergency department. methods: this is a cross-secti...

aims: the revised geneva score (rgs), a standardized clinical prediction rule for pulmonary embolism (pe), was recently developed. we have measured its predictive accuracy, performing an external retrospective validation in a cohort of emergency department (ed) patients, filtered by symptomatology and not by clinical suspicion, to allow its use in nursing practice.   methods: the clinical proba...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to contribute to pertinent discussions regarding advanced practice nursing roles. In particular discussion will focus on the potential implications for the developing nurse ractitioner (NP) role on the existing clinical nurse specialist (CNS) roles. SETTING The literature presented originates primarily from the United States of America (USA), United Kingdom ...

Background: A patient's satisfaction with nursing service is one of the main indices for measuring the quality and effectiveness of health care. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare patients' satisfaction with the nursing service provided in selected training hospitals in Tehran. Methods: This cross-se...

Nursing service managers need certain essential managerial attributes in taking the lead in effective management of the nowadays health care organisations in South Africa. Major changes in restructuring and human resources planning are taking place through transformation of health services and specific managerial attributes are needed in this scenario. Without nursing service managers with the ...