Browsing by Subjects (CINAHL) "Nursing Assessment"
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A Clinical Practice Change: Enhancing the Efficacy of Pediatric Early Warning Systems
(2018-02-07)With a lack of adherence to documentation, assessment, and utilization of the Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) by pediatric staff nurses, there was a significant gap between clinical deterioration recognition and ... -
Delirium assessment in the medical-surgical population: A quality improvement project
(2017-01-11)Background: Delirium is a complex syndrome that can affect many patients resulting in adverse outcomes. The use of a delirium assessment tool assists in the identification of delirium. The aim of this project was to determine ... -
Early detection and management of delirium through routine nurse screening on older adult hospitalized patients
(2016-10-20)Nurses play a crucial role in implementing care designed to reduce delirium’s duration and severity. Unmanaged delirium in the older adult patient population can result in prolonged hospitalization, profound decline ... -
National institutes of health stroke scale certification improved assessment and care of veterans: A quality improvement project
(2016-12-13)This pilot project sought to fill the gap in practice that included a lack of early recognition, assessment skills and practice guidelines for the care of stroke patients, improving patient care and hand off communication. ... -
Physiologic and behavioral responses to acute myocardial ischemic pain in Mexican male patients
The verbal, non-verbal and physiologic responses of Mexican male patients to the pain of acute myocardial ischemia were studied as a basis for subsequent comparison with other cultural groups. A sample of 57 patients was ... -
The relationships of nurses' critical thinking ability and patients' self-disclosure to accuracy in nursing assessment of depression in elderly medical patients
This study investigated the relationships of nurses' critical thinking ability and patients' self-disclosure to accuracy in nursing assessment of depression in elderly medical patients. The sample consisted of 120 female ...
