A Guide for the Nursing Service Audit

Audit in Practice: A Clinician’s Guide to Setting up Audit

Audit is the process used by health professionals to assess, evaluate and improve the care of patients in a systematic way in order to enhance their health and quality of life. There are many different ways of conducting medical audit and it carries a great benefit to practice such as improving efficiency and clinical error, demonstrating a good care, stimulating education and promoting higher ...

Anesthesia nursing audit? Yes!

findings from a nursing care audit based on the nursing process: a descriptive study

conclusions nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. such audits can be used as quality assurance tools. results the compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. however, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, p = 0.001) and work experience (r...

A Guide to Developing Nursing

conducted to explore whether serving food affects participation in medical grand rounds. The case study format is a presentation style that is regaining favor in both medical grand rounds and NGRs. Presenting a case study of a particular patient enables nurses to systematically examine a specific patient’s episode of care, review the pathophysiology, evaluate the nursing care provided, and rela...

A clinician's guide to setting up audit.

potentially missed because of normal auditory brain stem responses. Acoustic reflexes have the advantages of being cheap, easy to perform, and usually immediately available. Despite their poor specificity their routine use would mean that about a third of patients could be reassured at their initial clinic visit and not require further investigation. However, the criteria used by us for normali...