ABSTRACT Objective: To develop and validate a terminological subset of the International Classification for Nursing Practice COVID-19 patients in critical care. Method: This is methodological study, which followed guidelines Brazilian method, using Basic Human Needs as theoretical model. Content validation was performed by 25 specialist nurses Delphi technique. Results: A total 73 diagnoses the...

BACKGROUND The geriatric nursing home population is vulnerable to acute and deteriorating illness due to advanced age, multiple chronic illnesses and high levels of dependency. Although the detriments of hospitalising the frail and old are widely recognised, hospital admissions from nursing homes remain common. Little is known about what alternatives exist to prevent and reduce hospital admissi...

Nurses, particularly those working in non-psychiatric settings, report that they do not feel adequately prepared to meet the mental health needs of patients. The psychiatric consultation-liaison nursing role has arisen in part, as a response to these difficulties and aims to facilitate access to mental health nursing expertise for general hospital patients and staff. The impact of the introduct...

Ilana Kadmon, PhD, RN was for many years a nurse specialist in Breast Cancer at Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. From 2016, she started the role of a nurse academic consultant at the nursing division at Hadassah. Her PhD is from The University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research involved psychosocial aspects of breast cancer, and the role of the breast care nurse (BCN). She was a pioneer ...

Aims To examine if the introduction of Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurses impacted on length stay and rates readmission. Design Knowledge discovery through data mining as part a larger realist evaluation role. Methods Data from January 2017 to 2019 was extracted examined. A subset performance July 2017–November 2018 analysed. This consisted 7320 records for Hospital Episode Statistics 272 inc...

CONTEXT Tube-feeding is of questionable benefit for nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Approximately two-thirds of US nursing home residents who are tube fed had their feeding tube inserted during an acute care hospitalization. OBJECTIVE To identify US hospital characteristics associated with higher rates of feeding tube insertion in nursing home residents with advanced cognitive ...