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Nursing Care in Peripheral Intravenous Catheter (PIVC): Protocol of a Best Practice Implementation Project

Nursing Reports, 2022
Background: The use of a peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC) is a common invasive practice in healthcare settings. It is estimated that about 70% of people with PIVCs will develop associated complications, such as infections. It is the consensus that
Fernando Catarino, Cristina Lourenço, Célia Correia, João Dória, Maria Dixe, Cátia Santos, Joana Sousa, Susana Mendonça, Daniela Cardoso, Cristina R. Costeira   +9 more
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Findings From a Nursing Care Audit Based on the Nursing Process: A Descriptive Study

Nursing and Midwifery Studies, 2015
Background Although using the nursing process improves nursing care quality, few studies have evaluated nursing performance in accordance with nursing process steps either nationally or internationally. Objectives
Poortaghi, Salsali, Ebadi, Rahnavard, Maleki   +4 more
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Auditoria do método de assistência de enfermagem Auditoria del método de asistencia de enfermería Auditing the nursing care methodology

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2004
Este estudo descreve o desenvolvimento de um processo de auditoria do Método de Assistência de Enfermagem em uma unidade de internação de um Hospital Universitário.
Michel Maximiano Faraco, Gelson Luiz de Albuquerque   +1 more
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Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester, N. Starr, T. Negussie, D. Schaps, M. Adem, S. Alemu, D. Amenu, N. Gebeyehu, T. Habteyohannes, F. Jiru, A. Tesfaye, E. Wayessa, R. Chen, A. Trickey, S. Bitew, A. Bekele, T. G. Weiser   +16 more
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Clinical audit of nursing care related to tissue plasminogen activator drug injection in patients with cerebral thromboembolic stroke: A quasi-experimental study [PDF]

Journal of Nursing Advances in Clinical Sciences
The objective of the current study is to ascertain the clinical audit of nursing care about the administration of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) drugs in patients diagnosed with cerebral thromboembolic stroke.
Mostafa Hamid, Abdolali Shariati, Parisa Sheini Jaber, Mohamad Hosein Haghighizade   +3 more
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Perception of Portuguese nurses: clinical supervision and quality indicators in nursing care [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2023
Objectives: to describe nurses’ perception of the influence of clinical supervision on improving quality indicators in nursing care. Methods: exploratory research with a qualitative approach, carried out with 16 nurses using the focus group.
Mafalda Sofia Santos Brás Baptista Sérgio, António Luís Rodrigues Faria de Carvalho, Cristina Maria Correia Barroso Pinto   +2 more
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Opportunities to enhance ward audit: a multi-site qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Hospitals in many countries are encouraged to develop audits to assess and improve the quality of care. Ward audit is a specific form of audit and feedback that is commonly used but little studied.
Michael Sykes, Richard Thomson, Niina Kolehmainen, Louise Allan, Tracy Finch   +4 more
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Audit of medical records keeping at a Nigerian geriatric clinic

Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND: A medical record also known as health chart is the written health information about a patient or clients and is always opened whenever a patient or client visits a health facility.
Dabota Yvonne Buowari
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Attitude and perception of nurses towards implementation and utilization of nursing audit in University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Ibom Medical Journal
Context: Nursing audit is a quality assurance tool in nursing care. The study aims to assess the attitude and perception of nurses towards the implementation and utilisation of Nursing Audit (NA) at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Akwa ...
Udo AE, Peters GE, Ekpenyong AU, Peters EE   +3 more
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Auditing of enteral nutrition nursing care in critical care patients

Nursing Practice Today, 2019
Background and Aim: Enteral nutrition standards noncompliance is one of the factors that threatens patient safety.  Auditing is an important part in quality improvement processes.
Tahereh Al-Jalil, Golbahar Gray, Maryam Rasouli, Tooba Hoseini Azizi, Sima Sadat Hejazi*   +4 more
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