Background: In cerebrovascular diseases, the risk of mortality is high, especially in the acute phase. Since cerebrovascular diseases cause prominent loss of functioning among its survivors, these patients also require long term assistance and care. Objective: Determine the nursing care needs of acute cerebrovascular disease patients in the intensive care unit and the nursing interventions prov...

It appears that the implementation and use of a bedside electronic medical record in nursing homes can be a strategy to improve quality of care. Staff like using the bedside electronic medical record and believe it is beneficial. Information gleaned from this qualitative evaluation of four nursing homes that implemented complete electronic medical records and participated in a larger evaluation...

The purpose of this research is to determine the effects of implementing an electronic health record on medical-surgical registered nurses' time spent in direct professional patient-centered nursing activities, attitudes and beliefs related to implementation, and changes in level of nursing engagement after deployment of the electronic health record. Patient-centered activities were categorized...

Experienced bedside nurses identified 14 nursing diagnoses, 78 interventions, and 76 health outcomes for hospitalized persons with diabetes. Using these terms, the nursing department revised the standards of care and the electronic health record. Nurses' engagement in generating knowledge translated to increased interest in research. This methodology is recommended for other agencies.

OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of pain among residents of rural and regional nursing homes in northern New South Wales and to describe the procedures used for pain management. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey using interviews and audit of medical records. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 917 nursing home residents in 15 nursing homes within a northern NSW area health service in 1998-1999. MAIN ...

This article amplifies the emphasis on organizational workflow reignited by the Institute of Medicine reports on healthcare quality. The analysis of nursing workflow is central to understanding the power of technology to modify the fundamental constructs of nursing practice. The aim is to understand the evolution of nursing workflow and the concept of workflow from the management and computer s...

Using standardized terminology within electronic health records is critical for nurses to communicate their impact on patient care to the multidisciplinary team. The universal requirement for quality patient care, internal control, efficiency and cost containment, has made it imperative to express nursing knowledge in a meaningful way that can be shared across disciplines and care settings. The...

The constant hard work of providing nursing care, including handling emergencies, often causes medical accidents in hospitals. This paper proposes a wearable auto-event-recording system of medical nursing in order to capture the events never to be overlooked for analyzing such accidents. Our main concern is userfriendliness of the system for nurses. We’ve prototyped wearable sensors, and conduc...

Objective: The aim was to explore and compare documentation of the nursing process for patient safety in two systems: paper digital records. Background: ‘nursing process’ (assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation) is recommended by professional registration health service accreditation bodies as a key component understanding nurses’ clinical reasoning. Nurses’ responsibility must be suppo...