Pre-op nutrition assessments could save livesThe nutritional status of patients should be assessed carefully and improved where necessary before elective surgery, according to a major review of perioperative care.doi:...
Pre-operative assessments, which include patient history and physical examination, are fundamental in ensuring patient education about their procedure, and leads to successful post-operative outcomes. Within Niagara Health (NH), there are three main hospital sites where operations occur. Currently, there...
The purpose of this study was to determine if instruction in how to perform the MDS (Minimum Data Set) oral health assessment and RAP (Resident Assessment Protocol) Summary required by federal regulations will improve nurses' accuracy of the assessments. Fifty residents, admitted within 90 days be...
Training managers in behavioral and skills testing best practices. Choosing valid, reliablebehavioral assessmentsthat accurately evaluate skills and behavioral traits relevant to the job. Developing processes to ensure that testing occurs and results are received before any job offers are made. Ensuring th...
Nevertheless, Fried’s frailty phenotype focused on the single dimension of physiological performance assessments. Lastly, the requirement of the assessor (laymen versus healthcare professionals) is different. These fundamental differences restricted the strength of magnitude of the correlation coefficient and...
Visit 18 takes place as a home or study center visit for all included study participants. During this visit, a final assessment of the nursing care dependency level is carried out by means of the NBA, as well as all other assessments initially recorded in visits 0 and 2, so as to identi...
Demonstrating educational outcomes through IPP, such as acquisition of competencies related to IPC, discipline-specific competencies (e.g., assessments, interventions, clinical reasoning, etc.), and self-directed learning, was an intention in 26 of the articles [50,51,54,55,56,60,63,75,77,78...
Proposed Title: The Development and Validation of Three Pre-Employment Assessments for NursingThe process of hiring effective nurses is a difficult task that can have monumental repercussions for medical facilities. If nurses without proper skills are selected, patients can suffer frominsufficient quality...
The effect of nurses' back- ground on performance of nursing home resident oral health assessments pre- and post-training. Spec Care Dentist. 1996;16(2):65-70.Blank LW, Arvidson-Bufano UB, Yellowitz JA. The ef- fect of nurses' background on performance of nursing home resident oral ...
Blank L, Arvidson-Bufano U, Yellowitz J. The effect of nurses' background on performance of nursing home residents' oral health assessments pre-and post-training. Spec Care Dentist 1996;16:65- 70.Blank LW, Arvidson-Bufano UB, Yellowitz JA. The effect of nurses' background on performance ...