A postal survey to identify and describe nurse led clinics in genitourinary medicine services across England [PDF]
Background: Nurses in genitourinary medicine (GUM) services are progressively extending their roles to conduct "comprehensive care" nurse led clinics.
Mercey, D, Miles, K, Penny, N, Power, R
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Mental Health Nurse Prescribing: Challenges in Theory and Practice [PDF]
This article addresses the historical context of mental health nursing and its relationship to nurse prescribing.; examines some of the theoretical and philosophical forces that have molded modern mental health nursing, discussing the tensions between ...
Evans, David
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Nurse staffing levels revisited: a consideration of key issues in nurse staffing levels and skill mix research. [PDF]
AIM: This paper revisits the published evidence relating to how nurse staffing levels impact on patient, nurse and service outcomes and considers the implications of this body of research for nurse managers in their quest to determine optimum nursing ...
Aiken +55 more
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Library resources, student success and the distance-learning university [PDF]
Purpose - Research at the Open University Library Services has been investigating the relationshipbetween access to online library resources and student success to help to understand whether there is asimilar relationship at a distance-learning ...
Baker, Kirsty +2 more
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Probabilistic priority assessment of nurse calls [PDF]
Current nurse call systems are very static. Call buttons are fixed to the wall, and systems do not account for various factors specific to a situation. We have developed a software platform, the ontology-based Nurse Call System (oNCS), which supports the
De Turck, Filip +7 more
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Improve Intra-Operative Nurse-to-Nurse Communication Using a Safety Checklist [PDF]
Poor and inadequate handoff, or transfer of care of the surgical patient care from the primary to the relief operating room registered nurse circulators, can result in irreversible patient harm, or sentinel events, such as retained foreign items. In this
Rowe, Silvinita Tadeo
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Care during breastfeeding: Perceptions of mothers and health professionals
Purpose. To know the perceptions of mothers and health professionals in relation to the care provided and received during breastfeeding at primary health care level. Methods.
Camila Lucchini-Raies +7 more
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Objective. This work sought to evaluate the association between using preventive hydrocolloid dressings and the onset of pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients. Methods.
Olga Lucía Cortés +5 more
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Risk assessment tools to prevent positioning injuries in the perioperative setting: A scoping review
Background: Adverse events from patient positioning can cause injuries, including pressure injuries, which are preventable. To aid perioperative nurses in identifying patients at risk, recent clinical guidelines recommend the use of validated and ...
Trine Linn Drangsholt +2 more
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Analysis of the concept of powerlessness in individuals with stroke
Objective: To identify and analyze the concept of the powerlessness in individuals with stroke, according to the NANDA-I Taxonomy. Methods. Concept analysis from online access of four databases using the descriptors: impotence; helplessness, learned ...
Renan Alves Silva +5 more
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