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Structure and Function: Planning a New Intensive Care Unit to Optimize Patient Care
Türk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2014 To survey the recent medical literature reporting effects of intensive care unit (ICU) design on patients’ and family members’ well-being, safety and functionality. Features of ICU design linked to the needs of patients and their family are single-rooms,
Jozef Kesecioğlu
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BMJ Open, 2019 Introduction Advance care planning (ACP), an ongoing communication and planning process, aims to clarify a person’s values and preferences, so these guide decision-making if the person becomes unable to make his or her own decisions. Ideally, ACP results
Karen M Detering +6 more
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Patient-centred care planning [PDF]
Practice Nursing, 2009 Phil Holdich explains some strategies which can be used during annual reviews to help engage patients in taking responsibility for self-management of their diabetes. Series editor: Anne Phillips
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Flexible nurse staffing based on hourly bed census predictions [PDF]
, 2012 Workload on nursing wards depends highly on patient arrivals and patient lengths of stay, which are both inherently variable. Predicting this workload and staffing nurses accordingly is essential for guaranteeing quality of care in a cost effective ...
Bakker, P.J.M. +4 more
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Planning Strategies for Home Health Care Delivery [PDF]
, 2016 In home health care, continuity of care, wherein a patient is always visited by the same nurse, can be just as important as cost, as it is closely correlated to quality of care.
Hewitt, Mike +2 more
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Cancer Control, 2021 Introduction: Understanding key elements of the survivorship care planning process, such as patient-centered communication (PCC) and health self-efficacy, are critical for delivering patient-centered survivorship care to cancer survivors with multiple ...
Jessica D. Austin PhD, MPH +4 more
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Care and compassion at the end of life [PDF]
, 2012 Aim: To examine the provision of the ‘end of life care strategy’ and the perception of provision by patients and carers. Introduction: In determining what constitutes excellence in care at the end of life, one must firstly acknowledge ‘what care and ...
Brown, Michelle
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The general results of the RN4CAST survey in Italy [PDF]
, 2016 The issue of health workforce shortage and in particular of nurses, has been debated globally for almost three decades (Aiken & Mullinix 1987, Aiken et al. 1996, 2001, 2010), and has been exacerbated by the recent global financial crisis.
Aleo, Giuseppe +9 more
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Addressing the Long-Term Care Crisis: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement Using Rapid Reviews
Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2022 Background Long-term care (LTC) facilities require urgent, evidence-based care renewal. During 2020 three medical student-driven research projects aiming to study care satisfaction, patient care team dynamics, and advance care directive effectiveness ...
Rae R.A. Petrucha +6 more
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Advance Care Planning in Glioblastoma Patients [PDF]
Cancers, 2016 Despite multimodal treatment with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, glioblastoma is an incurable disease with a poor prognosis. During the disease course, glioblastoma patients may experience progressive neurological deficits, symptoms of increased intracranial pressure such as drowsiness and headache, incontinence, seizures and progressive ...
Fritz, L. +6 more
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