Intranasal dexmedetomidine is of benefit as paediatric premedication – from the perspective of anaestetic nurses
Anaesthetic nurses found that the children were easier to wake preoperatively and that their awakenings were calmer and less painful.
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Service user involvement in mental healthcare coordination
Healthcare personnel can make decisions about the admission basis and treatment needs or hold care coordination meetings with the service user, and the community mental health centre and municipalities can establish accountability or negotiate responsibility, and determine which measures to implement.
Parenteral nutrition at the end of life
Registered nurses and doctors should base their assessments of whether to stop parenteral nutrition on inter-disciplinary collaboration and competencies, with particular emphasis on experience-based knowledge.
New app can give nutritional support to home-dwelling elderly
The recently developed app APPETITT can inspire to a varied diet and increase the attention to dietary habits for home-dwelling elderly.
People with dementia may benefit from adapted cognitive behavioural therapy
People with early stage dementia can have different insights into their disease, and their motivation to participate in conversations with therapists can vary. A manual-based intervention can help find a relevant goal for the therapy based on the person’s circumstances.
Deficient reporting of falls in nursing homes
Deficient documentation of falls may stop the implementation of necessary preventive interventions. The nursing homes in the study are nevertheless failing to comply with their own documentation requirements.
How to ensure safe and appropriate medication management
Nurses, social educators and pharmacists have reached a consensus on 77 standards for best practice in medication management in the nursing and care service.
Is it acceptable to be asked about alcohol habits when admitted to a somatic hospital ward?
The patients accepted being asked about their alcohol habits and being referred to an alcohol and drug counsellor. The under-60s were more positive.
Readmission of patients to the intensive care unit – a case-control study
Readmitted patients are older, but their mortality rate is almost equal to that of non-readmitted patients. Patients readmitted within 72 hours are more likely to have an incomplete written transfer report.
Health education competence, self-management
A systematic literature review shows that six competence areas play a key role in enabling health personnel to give patients and service users good outcomes from self-management programmes.
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