The CPOT – a tool for pain assessment for intensive care patients
Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.
Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.
Weight is one of the simplest measurements of nutritional status. Nevertheless, a number of personnel in the community nursing services lack knowledge about nutrition and good routines for weighing patients.
They are ever on the alert vis-à-vis their daughter, suffer loneliness and feel that the eating disorder is taking over their home.
It will be more difficult to observe patients and perform clinical assessments. Nor do all patients have sufficiently good digital skills or adequate health literacy.
Oksygenbehandling bør ikke lenger være rutinebehandling for pasienter med akutt hjerteinfarkt, men kun gis til ellers stabile pasienter med SpO2 < 90 prosent, viser nyere studier og oppdaterte internasjonale retningslinjer.
Sykepleiermangelen er over oss og vil antakelig bare bli verre. Men den nye NSF-lederen har vært ute ei vinternatt før, og mener hun ser flere lys i det fjerne.
Utdanningen står ved et veiskille mellom klinikken og akademia. Hva tilfører masterutdanningen klinikken, og hvor mange satser videre mot en forskerkarriere?
New reforms and time-consuming tasks such as cleaning, preparing food and poor ICT solutions mean that nurses give less priority to safety measures in connection with medication management.
Susan Patricks jobb er å gi omsorg og pleie til mennesker hennes kolleger snart skal drepe.