Ambulatory emergency care units are present in many hospitals and accommodate patients who need urgent medical assessment or procedures but do not require inpatient admission to achieve this. This article reports on a project undertaken in the ambulatory care unit at the Royal United Hospital Bath, which introduced a nurse-led paracentesis service with the intention of reducing waiting times an...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a clinical threat to healthcare workers and the general population. Nurses maintain closer contact with patients than other members of country. Therefore, nurses are at increased risk infection, their physical mental burden has doubled. A comprehensive review needed examine nurses’ burnout during pandemic. Our research follows guidelines Preferred Reporting Items for Sy...

Critical care nurses are vital to promoting family engagement in the intensive care unit. However, nurses have varying perceptions about how much family members should be involved. The Questionnaire on Factors That Influence Family Engagement was given to a national sample of 433 critical care nurses. This correlational study explored the impact of nurse and organizational characteristics on ba...

OBJECTIVES To identify the colour that different groups of observers thought represented bile in a newborn's vomit. DESIGN Questionnaires displaying eight colours (pale yellow to dark green). SETTING General practices in Glasgow, postnatal ward and level III special care baby unit in a university teaching hospital, and mother and toddler groups in Glasgow. PARTICIPANTS 47 general practiti...

INTRODUCTION The intensive care unit is one of the specialized units in hospitals where head nurses are responsible for both motivating the personnel and providing high quality care. Understanding of the lived experiences of head nurses could help develop new assumptions of the ICU. The present study was therefore conducted to describe the lived experiences of head nurses working in ICU. METH...

Exploration of contextual factors and the use of evidence-based nonpharmacological pediatric pain management practices in emergency departments. 1 ABSTRACT The uptake of evidence in practice remains a challenge for healthcare professionals including nurses and providers. Increased use of evidence-based practices in healthcare settings may improve patient conditions such as pain and decrease the...

The Association of State and Territorial Directors of Nursing vision for emergency preparedness is that every community, family, and individual will have a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan that minimizes the consequences of disasters and emergencies, and enables communities, families, and individuals to respond and recover. This position paper provides national and state policy guidanc...