OBJECTIVES To evaluate the use of diagnostic testing before treating an infection in nursing home (NH) residents suspected of having a urinary tract infection (UTI) or pneumonia. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal study nested within a randomized trial, using data from control sites. SETTING Six NHs in southeast Michigan. PARTICIPANTS NH residents with an indwelling urinary catheter, enteral...

abstract background: intensive care unit is a center to provide comprehensive care for critically ill patients whose condition can be improved by receiving specialized care. the importance of accurate and rapid monitoring of patients at this precise moment is in recording patient data and its comparison with previous data. monitoring the patient by either devices or direct examination of the nu...

Over the last few decades, nursing education in Sweden has undergone many changes in its length, content, and academic level. Pedagogical developments have occurred, but not as much change has taken place in the clinical part of education. Therefore, a project was initiated to improve students' integrated learning, ability to actively search for knowledge, reflect critically, and to improve the...

Over the last 20 years, medical-surgical nursing has changed and should now be considered an international nursing speciality. Unlike other specialities, there is no opportunity to become a nurse practitioner in most Western countries. These two issues--lack of professional recognition and career development--should be addressed.

Nursing education and nurses' articulation with the working market are guided on the premise that the quality of nursing service is related to training workers to be reflexive subjects. The main object of the study was to understand nursing education based on the current political pedagogical projects (PPPs) of nursing courses and, more specifically, to verify with coordinators and/or former-co...

Objective: to present an update on the types of phlebitis, namely: chemical mechanical bacterial or infectious phlebitis and post-infusional aspects related concept, characteristics, clinical manifestations their impact nursing practice. Method: article chemical, mechanical, post-infusion phlebitis. Results: results from administration drugs that damage endothelium vessels; a is incorrect handl...

OBJECTIVES To analyze when the nursing process began to be used in the public and private healthcare centers of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country), and when both NANDA-I nursing diagnoses and the NIC-NOC terminologies were incorporated into this process. METHOD A retrospective study was conducted, based on the analysis of nursing records that were used in the 158 studied centers. RESULTS The specifi...

background and aims: anxiety is a common reaction when people encounter new problems where they do not know what expect. the nurses are responsible for assessing the patient and helping them with the procedure of endoscopy. this study investigates differences in anxiety level of patients who receive nursing process of orlando's theory prior to endoscopy examination compared to a control gr...

Clinical nursing research is an emerging subspecialty that enhances nursing expertise. In an effort to provide a basic educational curriculum on cancer research and clinical trials, a major academic cancer center launched a novel program titled Clinical Research Nursing Grand Rounds that allowed nurses to receive continuing education units. The purpose of the current article is to describe the ...