A Nursing Intelligence System to Support Secondary Use of Nursing Routine Data

A Nursing Intelligence System to Support Secondary Use of Nursing Routine Data.

BACKGROUND Nursing care is facing exponential growth of information from nursing documentation. This amount of electronically available data collected routinely opens up new opportunities for secondary use. OBJECTIVES To present a case study of a nursing intelligence system for reusing routinely collected nursing documentation data for multiple purposes, including quality management of nursin...

Routine postoperative nursing management

Postoperative refraction Postoperative refraction and provision of spectacles (if needed) are essential to ensure the best possible visual outcome for a patient. This is important because satisfied patients will encourage others in the community to undergo cataract surgery. During the 4–8-week follow-up appointment, refract both eyes and accurately check the visual acuity. Make sure you underst...

Nursing Support System for Mothers of Hospitalized Leukemic Children: A Comparative Study

Abstract Background: In addition to child, families can be influenced traumatically by the leukemia and hospitalization. Adopting the philosophy of a family-centered care approach can maximize the well being of pediatric patients and their family. The philosophy is based on the collaboration of the family, nurses and hospital staff to plan, provide and evaluate care to establish the bes...

Nursing Associate - a new support role for nursing

Nursing Students Viewpoints toward Routine Instructional Tools

Introduction: Instructional tools are among effective factors in learning. Learning about students viewpoints towards these tools could help teachers in choosing the most appropriate one. This study was performed to investigate and compare students views towards three routine instructional tools including PowerPoint, overhead, and whiteboard. Methods: In this descriptive study in the year 2007,...