In a large healthcare system, multiple sites received corrective action findings from regulatory agencies for missed nursing assessments. The centers did not have a documentation workflow aligned with the EHR to capture assessments in the stroke population.#Purpose:To create a system-wide documentation...
Cerebrovascular accident (CVA), also known asstroke, acute ischemic stroke, cerebral infarction, or brain attack, is any functional or structural abnormality of the brain caused by a pathological condition of the cerebral vessels of the entire cerebrovascular system. It is the sudden impairment of c...
professional education and training should be offered to staff lacking the necessary knowledge or competencies [3]. Nurses play a crucial role as stakeholders and team members in the comprehensive stroke care system, influencing all aspects of care, from initial assessments and symptom recognition to ...
Your everyday practice is filled with assessments, documentation, planning, interventions, and evaluations. Then there’s patient and family education, medication reconciliation, communication with other healthcare professionals, and transferring and discharging patients. The list goes on and on. The point...
Which should the nurse understand the reason sodium bicarbonate is prescribed for a client that has overdosed on aspirin? Promotes renal excretion Which are the nurse's priority assessments of a client who has received normal serum albumin?
This article provides an overview of the implications for patients' health status and care needs when assessments are performed by nurses not licensed or competent to perform this task. The Waterlow scale (Judy Waterlow, The Nook, Stroke Road, Henlade, TAUNTON, TA3 5LX) scenario is used as ...
Daily Living Assessments When your loved one has a chronic illness, increasing dementia, or simply has lost certain abilities due to the aging process, the decision isn't as black and white. Fortunately, there are some helpful tools to guide your decision-making and remove some of the emotions...
chickenpox to complex conditions such as juvenilediabetes, this resource provides key insights into pediatric assessments, development stages, and vaccinations. It also includes tailorednursing care plansfor various pediatric disorders, equipping nurses with the knowledge to deliver age-appropriate care ...
Patient satisfaction and documentation of pain assessments and management after implementing the adult nonverbal pain scale. Am J Crit Care. 2010;19:345–54; quiz 55. Article PubMed Google Scholar Arbour C, Gelinas C. Are vital signs valid indicators for the assessment of pain in postoperative...
Newcastle satisfaction with nursing scales: an instrument for quality assessments of nursing care. OBJECTIVES--To test the validity and reliability of scales for measuring patients' experiences of and satisfaction with nursing care; to test the ability o... LH Thomas,E Mccoll,J Priest,... - 《...