Fewer cardiac arrests are registered
Health personnel are instructed to register cardiac arrests in The Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry. Still, only one in three patients with cardiac arrest in the intesive care ward is registered.
Health personnel are instructed to register cardiac arrests in The Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry. Still, only one in three patients with cardiac arrest in the intesive care ward is registered.
Healthcare personnel in interdisciplinary teams believed that registered nurses made a distinct and recognised contribution to the collaborative effort. In particular, they valued the registered nurses’ somatic knowledge and their milieu therapy expertise.
Many registered nurses were unaware that generic substitution can only take place using an approved substitution list, or were uncertain how to use the Norwegian Pharmaceutical Compendium correctly.
It can be almost impossible to insert a needle in the case of some patients. Moreover, registered nurses have many work tasks to carry out at the same time in different places, and this can reduce concentration.
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.
Most of those who work part time choose to do so for reasons of lifestyle or family values. However, sociable working hours and professional challenges may provide the motivation required for some to increase their full-time equivalent percentage.
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.
When ESAS is routinely used to map symptoms, the patients experience greater symptom relief and a better quality of life. However, not everyone uses the tool systematically.
Organisasjonen definerer sykepleie som sikkerhetskritisk.