Safety measures for medication in nursing homes
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.
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.
Healthcare personnel find that they are better equipped to receive and treat trauma patients after taking the Course in Trauma Nursing.
The Norwegian translation is appropriate for exploring postoperative symptoms in patients following day surgery. The language, instructions and scoring are comprehensible as well.
A care discourse, aimed at the patient’s needs, was prominent in the evaluation and assessment notes. The treatment plans reflected a problem-focused discourse, where only problems were recorded.
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.
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.
Women who had given birth by caesarean section often downplayed their own complaints, felt left to their own devices and received invaluable assistance from their partner.
Diabetes specialist nurses have a strong feeling of responsibility for the patient and find it challenging to keep up to date with all the functions of some of the insulin pumps.
The current practice of using oxygen therapy has proven to be incomplete.
The registered nurses found that the ISBAR communication tool improves the treatment and safety of patients in ICU and on general hospital wards by ensuring that transfer reports are made more standardised and time-efficient.