OBJECTIVES The Canadian C-Spine Rule for imaging of the cervical spine was developed for use by physicians. We believe that nurses in the emergency department could use this rule to clinically clear the cervical spine. We prospectively evaluated the accuracy, reliability and acceptability of the Canadian C-Spine Rule when used by nurses. METHODS We conducted this three-year prospective cohort...

REVIEW QUESTIONS/OBJECTIVES The objective of this review is to explore the experiences and perceptions of emergency department nurses in providing palliative care to adults with advanced cancer so as to contribute to the developing knowledge base on this phenomenon and, in turn, inform future practice and policy changes. Specifically, the review question for this qualitative review is as follow...

Holistic care is the evaluation of the physical and mental states of individuals. Considering the importance of spirituality in healthcare and its pivotal role as the first step toward providing spiritual care, this study was conducted to determine the perception of Iranian nurses towards spirituality in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Methods: This study was conducted on nine participan...

Triage is a dynamic and continuous process used to define the severity of illness or trauma identify those with highest risk life in individuals who apply emergency department. Nurses play most active role which appropriate treatment care interventions are initiated for sick wounded unit short time, therefore they constitute main components this sense. The triage nurse should have training expe...

Patient education in emergency departments faces complexities and challenges due to the wide variety of clinical care provided in this setting. Despite widespread recognition of the value and benefits of education, we frequently see that patient education in hospital emergency departments is less than optimal and that emergency departments are not employed as venues conducive to providing suita...

Background One of many challenges for Emergency Departments is having access to clinical guidance when and where it is needed. In this abstract we provide a first experience from a pilot study involving the use of Google Glass in the Emergency Department among nurses. The involved nurses were asked to evaluate the experience of using Google Glass as a communication device instead of traditional...

original article   introduction: human errors are of the most important issues due to the technological advances in various work settings. in medical professions, including nursing, investigation of human errors would help to find out approaches for the identification and reduction of these errors. hence, the present study aimed to identify and assess nurses' errors in emergency ward of an educ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of unit-level nurse staffing on quality of discharge teaching, patient perception of discharge readiness, and postdischarge readmission and emergency department (ED) visits, and cost-benefit of adjustments to unit nurse staffing. DATA SOURCES Patient questionnaires, electronic medical records, and administrative data for 1,892 medical-surgical patients from ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess nurses' self-reported confidence in their professional skills before and after an extensive Emergency Department (ED) reform in Kanta-Häme Central Hospital. METHODS Emergency nurses participated in transitional training commencing two years before the establishment of the new organization in 2007. Training was followed by weekly practical educati...