Antimicrobial Prophylaxis and Stewardship in Nursing Home: A Narrative Review

What’s Next? Sustaining Hospital-Initiated Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs

Background. The core elements provide a framework for nursing homes (NH) to establish antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP). We report on implementation and sustainability of ASP through a hospital-NH partnership. Methods. Since 2014, a hospital-based team (HBT) assisted 9 NH in Monroe County, NY in implementing ASP. Enrollment was staggered; data are currently available from 2 NH: Facility X (...

Optimizing Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes: A Narrative Review and Recommendations for Improvement

The emerging crisis in antibiotic resistance and concern that we now sit on the precipice of a post-antibiotic era have given rise to advocacy at the highest levels for widespread adoption of programmes that promote judicious use of antibiotics. These antibiotic stewardship programmes, which seek to optimize antibiotic choice when clinically indicated and discourage antibiotic use when clinical...

A Review of Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Interventional Radiology Procedures and Identification of Antimicrobial Stewardship Opportunities

Content Analysis Approaches and methods in Iranian Nursing Studies: A Narrative Review Study

Background and aim: Content analysis (CA) is a widely used to extract the meanings in qualitative studies. Different approaches and methods have been used to perform CA in nursing studies, and their identification can support the selection of an appropriate method in future research. Therefore, the present narrative review examined the approaches and methods used to analyze contents performed b...

Benefits, Limitations and Administrative Methods of Learning Contracts in Nursing Clinical Education: A Narrative Review

Introduction: Learning contract is an individual and dynamic process through which students become self-directed and proactive in learning. Several studies have underscored using this method in nursing education. The purpose of this paper was to review benefits, limitations and administrative methods of learning contracts in nursing clinical education. Methods: This paper is a narrative review....