Nutritional status assessment – a professional responsibility in community nursing
It is challenging for community nurses to screen their patients’ nutritional risk because the guidelines fail to take sufficient account of the domestic arena.
It is challenging for community nurses to screen their patients’ nutritional risk because the guidelines fail to take sufficient account of the domestic arena.
Whether the therapist at the district psychiatric centre was a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse seemed to have little bearing on the outcome.
Whereas «PLO»-messages serve as a beneficial communication tool, they have to be supplemented with oral communication and meetings.
With the use of multidose electronic prescriptions, sources of error linked to paper-based solutions have been eradicated. However, it is still challenging to achieve optimal handling of medication.
Quality improvement measures led to midwives reducing the use of cardiotocography (CTG) on admission by 47 per cent. Nevertheless, they continued to use CTG more often than necessary.
The infection control measures may have impacted negatively on the breastfeeding assistance provided for first-time mothers in postnatal facilities. There was also a greater reliance on breast-milk substitutes than normal.
Sykepleiernes historie er ikke bare vakker. De mest groteske eksemplene på det er fra nazitiden, da sykepleiere assisterte ved de medisinke eksperimentene i konsentrasjonsleirene og utførte massedrap gjennom eutanasiprogrammer.
En divisjonsdirektør blir avsatt via telefon. En foretaksadvokat varsler om tvilsom styring fra direktøren. Dette er bare noen av ingrediensene i en sak som har rystet psykisk helsevern i Sykehuset Innlandet.