Geriatric Hospital Nurses' Perceived Barriers to Research Utilization and Empowerment
Asian Nursing Research, 2015 Purpose: The quality of nursing care in geriatric hospitals has been of concern. Nurses need to provide evidence-based nursing using best available research findings in order to maximize the quality of care.
Hyunwook Kang, RN, PhD
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2021 Yulian Li,1 Meirong Chen,2 Rong Lin,1,3 Hong Li1,3 1The School of Nursing, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Nursing, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, People’s ...
Li Y, Chen M, Lin R, Li H
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An Educational Pathway for Geriatric Home Caregivers [PDF]
, 2008 The establishment of a multi-tiered educational pathway for geriatric home caregivers would support efforts to meet the needs of an increasing number of community dwelling older adults who require assistance with activities of daily living, while ...
Beth C. Vaughan-Wrobel, Sherry White
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Examining evidence based resistance plus balance training in community-dwelling older adults with complex health care needs: Trial protocol for the Muscling Up Against Disability project [PDF]
, 2017 Available online 6 October 2016Abstract not availableJustin W.L.
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aim Drugs with anticholinergic effects are often considered as potentially inappropriate medications, especially for older patients, and deprescribing such drugs may improve cognitive function. The aim was to investigate the effectiveness of counselling on drug risks as part of a multimodal intervention to prevent cognitive decline. Methods The AgeWell.
Laura K. Lepenies +14 more
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Bright light therapy as part of a multicomponent management program improves sleep and functional outcomes in delirious older hospitalized adults. [PDF]
, 2013 ObjectiveDelirium is associated with poor outcomes following acute hospitalization. A specialized delirium management unit, the Geriatric Monitoring Unit (GMU), was established.
Ancoli-Israel, Sonia +4 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.People accessing aged care services are increasingly older and often experience multimorbidity and polypharmacy, which puts them at risk of medication‐related harm. Quality indicators (QIs) can assist with monitoring, benchmarking and informing initiatives to reduce medication‐related harm.
Daria S. Gutteridge +20 more
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Nursing administration in the geriatric department in the epidemic of COVID-19
Journal of Integrative Nursing, 2020 In order to strengthen the prevention and management in the geriatric department during the pandemic of COVID-19 and to explore how to implement nursing measures to control the spread of COVID-19 to elderly patients, our geriatric department established ...
Hui Fan +3 more
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Identification of hospitalized elderly patients at risk for adverse in-hospital outcomes in a university orthopedics and trauma surgery environment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 As a consequence of demographic changes, hospitals are confronted with increasing numbers of elderly patients, who are at high risk of adverse events during hospitalization.
Janine Gronewold +3 more
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