How do physicians and nurses differ in their perceived barriers to effective enteral nutrition in the intensive care unit? [PDF]
Background Patients hospitalized in intensive care units are susceptible to chronic malnutrition from changes in protein and energy metabolism in response to trauma.
Masoumeh Mirhosiny +2 more
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Does nurses' vulnerability affect their ability to care? [PDF]
Recent reports from the Department of Health (2008), the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2011) and the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People (2012) have been highly critical regarding the care that some patients have experienced ...
Board, Michele, Heaslip, Vanessa
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Promoting patient safety in critically ill patients: nursing interventions in surveillance and prevention of ocular injuries [PDF]
Corneal surface injuries occur frequently (59.4%) in critically ill patients, and the average time for their appearance is 8 days. Such injuries are primarily related to dry eye, which increases the risk of exposure injury in patients admitted to ...
Anabela Carvalho Raposo +4 more
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Background. Electrogastrography and electroenterography are noninvasive methods for measuring gastric and intestinal electrical activities, respectively.
Gen Aikawa +9 more
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Critical Thinking in Nursing Education: Literature Review [PDF]
The need for critical thinking in nursing has been accentuated in response to the rapidly changing health care environment. Nurses must think critically to provide effective care whilst coping with the expansion in role associated with the complexities ...
Abegglen J. +64 more
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Background and aim Patient deaths are common in the intensive care unit, and a nurse’s perception of barriers to and supportive behaviors in end-of-life care varies widely depending upon their cultural background.
Dan-dan Xu +7 more
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Ethical dimensions of paediatric nursing: A rapid evidence assessment [PDF]
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Background: Paediatric nurses often face complex situations requiring decisions that sometimes clash with their own values and beliefs, or with the needs of the children they care for and their families.
Bagnasco, Annamaria +8 more
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Background Instead of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), the modern definition of ventilator-associated events (VAEs) has been introduced to identify infectious and noninfectious respiratory complications. Some studies revealed that compliance to the
Eman Arafa Hassan +1 more
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[Development and Validation of a Measurement to Assess Person-centered Critical Care Nursing].
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure person-centered critical care nursing and verify its reliability and validity. METHODS A total of 38 preliminary items on person-centered critical care nursing were selected using ...
Jiyeon Kang +5 more
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Managing clinical uncertainty: an ethnographic study of the impact of critical care outreach on end‐of‐life transitions in ward‐based critically ill patients with a life‐limiting illness [PDF]
© 2018 Crown copyright. Journal of Clinical Nursing © 2018 John Wiley & Sons LtdRapid response teams, such as critical care outreach teams, have prominent roles in managing end-of-life transitions in critical illness, often questioning appropriateness of
Mclellan, Jude +4 more
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