The present study aimed to develop and evaluate a nutritional and nursing risk assessment method for diabetic inpatients to improve healthcare and risk management. Diabetic inpatients diagnosed according to the World Health Organization guidelines, together with their nursing staff, were divided into two groups for nutritional and nursing risk assessment. Data from one group were used to establ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the effect predictive nursing intervention on gastrointestinal side effects I-131 re-treatment in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Methods: From January 2017 August 2018, we invited patient DTC who received enroll study. participants were randomly assigned control or groups using a random number table. primary outcomes incidence ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy (sensitivity) of a clinical score for presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis cases during screening. METHODS Descriptive cross-sectional study comprising 1,365 patients attending the department of lung diseases at a secondary care outpatient clinic in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil, during 2006 and 2007. All respondents answered a standardized que...

background: the purpose of this study was to present a scientific reason for pressure ulcer risk scales: cubbin& jackson modified braden, norton, and waterlow, as a nursing diagnosis tool by utilizing predictive validity of pressure sores. methods: articles published between 1966 and 2013 from periodicals indexed in the ovid medline, embase, cinahl, koreamed, ndsl, and other databases were sele...

Background: The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) has recommended the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA®), the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS), and the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) for nutritional screening in various settings and age groups. While in recent years all three tools have been applied to nursing home residents, there is still no con...

Objective: New nurses may be vulnerable to bullying as they often lack confidence or do not have the skills or maturity to communicate their needs or those of their patients. Increasing emotional intelligence particularly in at-risk nursing students may be one way to foster resiliency. This exploratory cross sectional study aimed to exam the overall level and specific components of emotional in...

BACKGROUND The Minimum Data Set (MDS) for nursing home resident assessment has been required in all U.S. nursing homes since 1990 and has been universally computerized since 1998. Initially intended to structure clinical care planning, uses of the MDS expanded to include policy applications such as case-mix reimbursement, quality monitoring and research. The purpose of this paper is to summariz...

We examined the effect of market and organizational characteristics on nursing home quality as measured by deficiencies (number and weighted) on states in a rural region of the United States. Rural nursing homes in five Mountain West states (N = 161) were sampled from the Online Survey Certification and Reporting system between January 1, 2004 and June 15, 2005. State comparisons indicated that...

Proceedings are presented from a research conference to promote nursing research as a basis for policymaking in nursing practice, education, and health care services. The keynote address, by Patricia Jones, describes issues in health care financing in the 1980t and urges researchers to provide the kind of data and guidelines needed to support professional nursing services. The second paper, by ...