The aim was to analyze the importance of nursing audit in review hospital accounts health care service providers supplementary health. Integrative with a qualitative approach, conducted online databases Scientific Electronic Library Online, Latin American and Caribbean Literature Health Sciences Nursing Database. Sixteen articles were selected that matched inclusion criteria, addition 02 resolu...

In parallel with developments in medicine much has been written in the nursing press, particularly over the past few years, on quality assurance and audit. In nursing early approaches focused on broad, proselytising statements about the nature of nursing, why quality was often not achieved, and the changes required.'1 Later, nursing practice was compared with pre-formulated standards and criter...

District nurses spend about 25–65% of their time caring for patients with leg ulcers, with staff time and wound management costs continually rising (Thambiaya, 1996). In the North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) tissue viability service, a recent internal case load audit was completed for the Essex integrated care directorate. This audit identified 67% of the referrals are for venous leg u...

introduction: pre-operative investigations for emergency surgical patients differ between centers. following established guidelines can reduce unnecessary investigation, cost of treatment and hospital stay. the present audit was carried out to evaluate the condition of doing pre-operative investigations for three common surgical emergencies compared to national institute for health and care exc...

Methods Audit using a cross sectional design with an opportunistic sample of 47 clinically based mental health nursing staff in a forensic medium secure unit. Participants had previously been trained in breakaway techniques. They were approached by the audit team on the ward and randomly selected one of five possible life-threatening assaults that they then had to breakaway from. Measures were ...

background & aim: with the implementation of incorrectly airway suctioning, many complications and risks can be followed. therefore, health care providers can expedite recovery of patients by increasing in quality of suction. this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of clinical audit process on the level of endotracheal tube suctioning skill in nurses and anesthesia technicians working i...

We describe an audit system used in our Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during 1989-90. The system emphasizes the integration of data acquisition (database function) with the analysis and use of data (decision function). Resource input (human and technological) included patient demographics, diagnoses, complications, procedures, severity of illness (Apache II), therapeutic interventi...

OBJECTIVE To develop an environmental audit tool suitable for use across the spectrum of people with dementia. METHOD The existing Environmental Audit Tool was supplemented with items describing the environmental needs of people in the final stages of dementia. Two independent raters assessed 30 aged care homes using this draft tool and the Therapeutic Environment Screening Survey for Nursing...