... Contents NursingCareof the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient Contents Cathy C Cartwright Editors Donna C Wallace NursingCareof the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient With 119 Figures ... Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) Eye squeeze None Min Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) ... atmosphere of learning and support that allows us to care for our patients Most of all, this book is for our patients and their families Thank you for letting us be a part of your lives in the midst of...
... .39 2.2 Healthcare professionals’ sources of anticancer drug interaction information 40 2.3 Sources of drug interaction information based on the practice settings of healthcare professionals ... C6 Other Cause of DRP related to the logistics of the prescribing or dispensing mechanism Other causes of DRPs Currently, in the provision of pharmaceutical care, healthcare professionals work ... exchange of health-related data for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness of health care delivery The main aims of e-Health are to provide an improvement in the quality of patient care, increase...
... 0.78) Patients were awake on 46% of evaluations Patients treated by DIS were agitated (RASS score > 0) during 18% of the evaluations, whereas patients treated by SA were agitated on 5% of the ... for patients treatedline )of total duration of sedation (thick line) and Kaplan-Meier survival curve daily= 0.0003) of mechanical ventilation (MV) for patients treated by daily interruption of ... recommendation of the medical team Three ofpatients randomly assigned to SA who died had care withdrawn; in cases, this was at the recommendation of the medical team and in case at the request of the...
... overestimate of the true situation of how effective nurses pay attention to nutritional problems among their patients Nutrition education of professionals The nutrition education of professionals in nursing ... various parts of Finland (Table 5) Table Description of the studied elderly residents in nursing homes, dementia wards and patients in long term care hospitals Nursing homes and long term care hospitals ... nutritional status of elderly nursing home residents and long term carepatients 5.2 The energy and nutrient intake of elderly residents in dementia wards 5.3 Nursing and nutritional care factors 5.4...
... tertiary care hospital located in the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), provides multilevel health care for National Guard soldiers and their extended families It has one of the ... outcomes ofpatients diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis requiring ICU admission, and to identify potential factors affecting mortality rates We reviewed the records ofpatients age of 18 ... total number of admissions to the ICU during the six-year period covered by our study Within the cohort of 33 patients, 20 (60.7%) were male, and 13 (39.3%) female The mean age of all patients was...
... Use of health care The aim of this section is to analyse the current use of health care services by the elderly and the determinants of this utilisation Indicators for the use of health care ... limited USE OF HEALTH AND NURSINGCARE | Table Results of data collection Hospital admissions Length of hospital stay Contact with a doctor Long-term care in institutions Long-term care at home ... number of caregivers in families, because of the absence of spouses While better health could have a decreasing impact on the need for long-term care, the declining potential source of informal caregivers...
... level ofcare The principle of the lowest effective level ofcare (LEON ) was first introduced in a White Paper (22) and has since been one of the basic principles of Norwegian health care policy ... not met, could the patients be ‘better off elsewhere’? An important issue for community care is how to predict the level ofcare Health care managers, home care agencies, patients, and their ... responsibility for care This thesis compares formal and informal care across the sites related to care burden Home is looked upon as the lowest level ofcare However, the care often carried out...
... development of perioperative nursing Key discoveries in perioperative care Early beginnings ofsurgery for children The growth of paediatric surgery Conclusion: perioperative nursingof children ... Perioperative Careof the Child Consequently, the models ofcare used with children in the perioperative environment (as in all branches of health care) must be cognizant of children’s needs Models ofcare ... history of children’s perioperative care – Jeremy Jolley Why history is important What is perioperative nursing? A brief history of perioperative nursing An overview of the history of surgery...
... instance, patients with higher levels of education tend to have a decreased risk of developing low back pain [5] This finding may be related to type of work ofpatients with higher levels of education ... health perceptions in patients undergoing lumbar spinal surgery Health-related quality of life A number of studies were conducted measuring the HRQOL in patients undergoing spinal surgery [18] The ... abilities Characteristics of the sample (individual and biologic function) were similar to other studies ofpatients undergoing lumbar spinal surgery in terms of reported prevalence of obesity [33] and...
... development of outcomes-based care delivery Critical CareNursing Clinics of North America 1998, 1(10):1-11 Cheah J: Development and implementation of a clinical pathway programme in an acute care general ... of a pilot in the development of a fractured neck of femur integrated care pathway Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing 2002, 6:130-134 Campbell H, Hotchkiss R, Bradshaw N, Porteous M: Integrated care ... important to facilitate a healthy transition process In contrast to the careof younger patients, the careof elderly patients is more complex with more factors involved (such as health status,...
... determining the attitudes of health professionals to the careof psychiatric patients within the hospital, also looked at possible relationships between some of their attitudes to such care and their sociodemographic ... Tests of association between some of the responses and some of the respondents' sociodemographic features such as type of profession, gender, and sex were determined with the χ2 test A P value of ... Stigma of mental illness remains high among health professionals in general hospitals despite having 5% ofpatients presenting at emergency departments with psychiatric problems, and a high rate of...
... surgery because of fear of relapse, is now performed routinely for an increasing number ofpatients This has a profoundly positive psychological effect, and allows for a more solid recovery of ... and represent the standard ofcare for breast cancer patients around the world, the incidence of local recurrence (LR) has been widely studied It occurs in 5-10% ofpatients at 10 years, and it ... than 2% ofpatients whose surgical specimen was interpreted as containing DCIS only, probably because the presence of invasive cancer can be unrecognized [159] Page of 17 Studies of patients...
... pulmonary function of the pre and postoperative periods in the coronary artery bypass graft surgeryofpatients treated with a physiotherapy protocol Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 6:62 ... of the subjects from the CAD group had been previously recommended for CABG but instead chose medical treatment Exclusion criteria We excluded patients who had a history of previous cardiac surgery, ... first 12 hours after surgery, the subjects were extubated, they received CPAP for 20 minutes and Moreno et al Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011, 6:62 http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/6/1/62...
... just want to take careof the patients. ’ (Primary Care Nurse) ‘I’m the click counter I think one time I sent [an administrator] an e-mail about how many clicks it took to take careof a diabetic ... Characteristics Participant Role Primary Care Physician Number of participants 18 Primary Care Physician Assistant Primary Care Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) Primary Care Registered Nurse (RN) 10 Psychiatrist ... participants discussed EHR implementation in the context of the larger healthcare system It is important to design the system ofcare so that implementation of informatics promotes good clinical practice...
... years of age of whom the GPs consider themselves to be the physician taking careof the treatment of this condition in the patient We expect eight to ten patients per practice [18,19] Patients ... proportion of CHF patients not attend such clinics but visit their GP instead, these patients are not enrolled in a structured care programme To improve the management of CHF in primary care, we ... collaborative project of IQ healthcare, a research department of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, and the four regional supportive structures for primary care (’ROS’) in the south of the Netherlands...
... related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality ofcare for patients with diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying ... 67% of practices achieved the target of 50% ofpatientshaving their hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) within the target range; the similar figure for blood pressure (BP) (target of 55%) was 70% Some of ... 25% ofcare provided is not needed or potentially harmful [7,8] A review of quality ofcare studies (including diabetes) from UK primary care concluded that 'in almost all studies the process of...
... also felt that care was compromised by the patients' insufficient understanding of diabetes, lack of awareness of serious complications, and of the importance lifestyle changes Fear of insulin therapy ... insulin therapy 'Specialists gain too much control of referred patients and often exclude GPs from direct patient care This is especially true ofpatients on insulin who get free instructions and ... improvement projects and shared care collaboration Patient Practice organization - lack of scheduled visits, lack of planned follow-up, lack of support staff Lack of knowledge on - insight regarding...
... related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality ofcare for patients with diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying ... 67% of practices achieved the target of 50% ofpatientshaving their hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) within the target range; the similar figure for blood pressure (BP) (target of 55%) was 70% Some of ... 25% ofcare provided is not needed or potentially harmful [7,8] A review of quality ofcare studies (including diabetes) from UK primary care concluded that 'in almost all studies the process of...
... duration of treatment status at baseline (no care before 2004; new episode after 365 days out of care; or persistently in care) Aims of the study We examined whether previously reported benefits of ... in care at this date; had never been in care (new patients) or were not in care in the 365 days before this date, but had care before that time (new episode) Definition of SMI and MMI SMI patients ... category is patients in a new episode, defined as having had no care for more than a year, but presenting again after a relapse of previous illness These patients likely will present with care needs...