Physical examination and health assessment by nursing students in clinical training
Only 7 out of 20 PEHA skills were regularly applied in relevant patient situations in clinical training.
Only 7 out of 20 PEHA skills were regularly applied in relevant patient situations in clinical training.
Many medical records lacked information about nutritional risk, and few patients at nutritional risk were followed up.
The current practice of using oxygen therapy has proven to be incomplete.
It is an ordeal to be diagnosed with and treated for testicular cancer. Various resources can help patients to handle the difficult situation more easily.
More and more studies are examining systems for early detection of clinical deterioration in non-hospital settings, but few have focused on older people and primary care.
Nurses, social educators and pharmacists have reached a consensus on 77 standards for best practice in medication management in the nursing and care service.
A large proportion of the residents at nursing homes did not receive a medication review when they were admitted, despite this being a statutory requirement.
The organisational form results in RNs working in greater isolation, and this may mean that their professional competence stagnates. The parents become the experts on the child – not the RNs.
For nurses to be able to attend to their patients’ nutritional status in the best possible way, they need a regular nursing home doctor who knows the nutritional wishes and needs of individual patients.
Involving a user and a professional translator may be appropriate when an instrument is translated and adapted to another culture.