OBJECTIVES Lack of access to medical information for nursing home residents during emergency department (ED) evaluation is a barrier to quality care. We hypothesized that the quantity of information available in the ED differs based on the funding source of the resident's nursing home. DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING Single academic ED. PARTICIPANTS Participants were 1...

Nationally, domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions. Universal screening is a vital means to identify those women who suffer in abusive relationships with intimate partners. Collaborative efforts between a community shelter for abused women and a local medical center's emergency department resulted in the development and implementation of a universal screening process. Barriers encou...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the utilization and financial outcomes of a telephonic nursing disease-management program for elderly patients with heart failure. DESIGN A 1-year concurrent matched-cohort study employing propensity score matching. SETTING Medicare+Choice recipients residing in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. PARTICIPANTS A total of 533 program participants aged 65 and older matche...

Emergency nurses need to be able to assess and manage trauma patients wherever they work and regardless of the number of staff working with them. This article describes systematic nursing assessment of patients who have sustained traumatic injuries.

INTRODUCTION Competence of nurses is a complex combination of knowledge, function, skills, attitudes, and values. Delivering care for patients in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) requires nurses' competences. This study aimed to explain nurses' competence in the ICCU. METHODS This was a qualitative study in which purposive sampling with maximum variation was used. Data were collected th...

The objective of this study is to reflect on the knowledge, competencies and skill that must be promoted during the academic education of nurses for an effective professional practice in view of a multiple-victim incident (MVI). This is an integrative literature review regarding academic nursing education. The literature survey was performed on the BDENF, LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE, Web of Knowled...

BACKGROUND In the emergency department satisfaction is strictly linked to the role of the nurses, namely the first interface between patients and hospital services. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to identify areas of emergency nursing activity associated with minor or major patient satisfaction. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2010 - May 2011...

BACKGROUND Delivery of care to people with advanced cancer in the emergency department (ED) is complicated by competing service demands, workloads and physical design constraints. We explored emergency clinicians' attitudes to the ED environment when caring for patients who present with advanced cancer, and how these attitudes are affected by access to palliative care services, palliative care ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation between individual patient experience dimensions and overall patient satisfaction using text-based analysis of subjective comments of patients treated in emergency departments. METHODS Open-ended comments from 331 patients who visited the emergency departments of 4 hospitals were used for coding different dimensions of patient experience. Regression coef...