Readiness to perform emergency healthcare in an austere environment such as a disaster depends on the preparation of the individual professional nurses and team. A research program, made up of studies and products centered on individual readiness to perform nursing care in austere environments, is described in this article. Brief, easy-to-complete instruments to assess nurses’ readiness along 6...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this methodological research were to culturally adapt the MISSCARE Survey instrument to Brazil and analyze the internal consistency of the adapted version. METHOD The instrument consists of 41 items, presented in two parts. Part A contains 24 items listing elements of missed nursing care. Part B is comprised of 17 items, related to the reasons for not delivering care. Th...

Acquired brain injury is a non-degenerative brain injury that may affect anyone at any time. Patients with acquired brain injury are often critically ill and this injury can have a devastating and long-lasting effect on the patient's quality of life. Although hospital treatment cannot change the initial injury, good nursing care will help to limit and prevent secondary damage thus reducing the ...

BACKGROUND Nursing staff encounter a lot of physical, psychological and social stressors at work. Because the adverse effects of job stress on the health of this group of staff and subsequently on the quality of care services provided by nurses; study and identify how nurses cope with the job stress is very important and can help prevent the occurrence of unfavorable outcomes. OBJECTIVES The ...

In this project standards for the nursing care of the institutional care of the frail aged were formulated and then validated by groups of nurses. An instrument was then designed to measure to what extent these standards are reached. The instrument was then tested for reliability and validity in a sample of 12 institutions in the Eastern Cape and Natal.

1. Discuss common areas of concern that relate to perioperative best practices when managing the can’t-intubate, can’t-oxygenate scenario. 2. Discuss best practices that could enhance safety during crisis management of a failed airway. 3. Describe implementation of evidence-based practice in relation to perioperative nursing care for difficult or failed airway crisis in the perioperative setting.

The programmed investigation unit (PIU) is a inpatient unit where a full range of investigational medicine can be organised. It provides the basic minimum nursing care and is suitable for ambulant patients who can care for themselves. Requests for admission to the PIU at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, come directly from clinical units, and the staff of these units perform so...

Stroke in association with pregnancy is an infrequent occurrence, but there is evidence that the incidence is rising. The physiological changes of pregnancy are thought to increase stroke risk, and several conditions specific to pregnancy further increase risk. The provision of optimal care to pregnant and postpartum women who experience stroke requires awareness of how the physiological change...

OBJECTIVE Understanding the meaning of pregnancy for heterosexual couples facing serodiscordant situation for HIV, aiming at construction of care possibilities based on subjectivity. METHOD Phenomenological research, theoretical-philosophical-methodological framework by Martin Heidegger. Research was conducted in a University Hospital in the countryside of Southern Brazil, from September 2013...

OBJECTIVES To provide the first systematic analysis of a national (Wales) sample of free-text comments from patients with cancer, to determine emerging themes and insights regarding experiences of cancer care in Wales. DESIGN Thematic analysis of free-text data from a population-based survey. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Adult patients with a confirmed cancer diagnosis treated within a 3-month ...