AIM This paper is a report of a study to develop a methodology that corrects nurse staffing for nursing care intensity in a way that allows nationwide benchmarking of nurse staffing data. BACKGROUND Although nurse workload measurement systems are recognized to be informative in nurse staffing decisions, they are rarely used. When these systems are used, however, it is only possible to compare...

Preoperative visiting by a critical care pain nurse has improved patient care within the intensive care and high dependency units of Leicester General Hospital. A patient satisfaction audit showed that 98 per cent of the 50 patients questioned appreciated the visits and 94 per cent were satisfied with the pain relief they received. The service was reviewed in light of the survey results and the...

introduction: increasing costs of health and treatment services has led health economics specialists and even physicians in all countries to seek new methods for controlling and reducing costs in medical and health services. the present study was aimed to estimate the costs of a cardiac care unit (ccu) in a governmental hospital in iran. methods: in order to determine the end cost, a stepwise p...

The 2013 American College of Critical Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit serves as a living example of nurses' involvement in the development and implementation of professional guidelines. Nurses who served on this guideline-writing panel describe their expe...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical application of national guidelines for neonatal nursing. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SETTING Thirty-nine neonatal care units in Sweden. STUDY PARTICIPANTS Thirty-five of 39 nurse managers at all Swedish neonatal care units. INTERVENTION Thirteen clinical guidelines for neonatal nursing care were presented in 1997. Recommendations on evidence-based nur...