background: providing a self-care program appropriate for patient needs in a supportive educative nursing system format could reduce migraine-induced disability. this study was designed to determine the effectiveness of orem's self-care program on headache related disability in migraine patients. methods: in this randomized clinical trial, episodic migraine patients with or without aura who sig...

Objective: to analyze, based on scientific evidence, how the transition of care for people with stroke occurs after hospital discharge. Methods: integrative literature review, conducted in databases Scopus, Web Science, Pubmed/MEDLINE, Latin American and Caribbean Literature Health Sciences, Nursing Database The Cumulative Index Allied Literature. A total 21 articles were included final sample,...

BACKGROUND The majority of nursing home residents with dementia experience behavioural and psychological symptoms like apathy, agitation, and anxiety. According to analyses of prescription prevalence in Germany, antipsychotic drugs are regularly prescribed as first-line treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with dementia, although guidelines clearly prioritise non-pharmacological in...

Outcome in Stroke Care To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by McNaughton and colleagues1 regarding the relationship between clinical processes and outcomes of stroke care in the setting of 3 hospitals in New Zealand. Stroke may have devastating outcomes for patients, families, and society. The hypothesis that understanding clinical care processes may lead to sustainabl...

abstract background : infectious disease control is one of the important components of patient care which can assist in reducing morbidity and mortality. source isolation is one of the strategies that have used in order to prevent from the spread of contagious infectious diseases. since nursing student should be able to do the caring in source isolation patients after learning the principles, i...

Obesity (ie, a body mass index of ≥30 kg/m(2)) is increasing in the United States. As a result, more overweight individuals are being surgically treated for weight loss, thus making it imperative for perioperative RNs to understand obesity's effects on patients' health, its contribution to significant comorbidities (eg, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, sleep apnea, musculoskeleta...

introduction: health care classifications are essential tools for collecting and processing health-related information. they also provide a unified language for interdisciplinary communications. nursing data is important for extension of knowledge, evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing care, and supporting human resource planning. therefore, an integrated system for collecting, st...

BACKGROUND Although many dysphagia screening tools exist, none has high sensitivity and reliability or can be administered quickly with minimal training. OBJECTIVE To design and validate a swallowing screening tool to be used by health care professionals who are not speech language pathologists to identify dysphagia and aspiration risk in acute stroke patients. METHODS In a prospective stud...

Background Although many dysphagia screening tools exist, none has high sensitivity and reliability or can be administered quickly with minimal training. Objective To design and validate a swallowing screening tool to be used by health care professionals who are not speech language pathologists to identify dysphagia and aspiration risk in acute stroke patients. Methods In a prospective study of...

BACKGROUND As long-term nursing home care is likely to increase with the aging of the population, identifying chronic medical conditions is of particular interest. Although need factors have a strong impact on nursing home (NH) admission, the diseases causing these functional disabilities are lacking or unclear in the residents' file. We investigated the medical reason (primary diagnosis) of a ...