1 Nurse. PhD., Specialist in Intensive Care Nursing and Adult Intensive Care. Professor of College of Nursing and of Research and Graduate Studies Center at Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas. São Paulo, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 2 Nurse. PhD., Specialist in Intensive Care Nursing. Collaborator Professor of University São Camilo, Lato Sensu Graduate Course in Emergency. São Paulo, SP, Brazil....

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To compare acute care outcomes and costs among nursing home residents with community-dwelling home health recipients. DESIGN AND METHODS A matched retrospective cohort study of Alabamians aged more than or equal to 65 years admitted to a nursing home or home health between March 31, 2007 and December 31, 2008 (N = 1,291 pairs). Medicare claims were compared up to one year...

Objective: To discuss the nursing effect of patents with cerebral haemorrhage in emergency department. Methods: One hundred and twenty patients with cerebral haemorrhage were selected from July 2014 to July 2015 and randomly divided into a control group and an observation group according to case number. Patients in the control group were given conventional nursing, while patients in the observa...

Registered General Nurses (RGNs) play crucial roles in emergency departments (EDs). EDs in Ghana are primarily staffed by RGNs who have had no additional formal education in emergency care. Additionally, basic, master's, or doctoral level nursing education programs provide limited content on the complexities of emergency nursing. Nurses in EDs are affected by many challenges such as growing pat...

OBJECTIVE To characterise the NHS Direct nurse workforce and estimate the impact of NHS Direct on the staffing of other NHS nursing specialties. METHOD A postal survey of NHS Direct nurses in all 17 NHS Direct call centres operating in June 2000. RESULTS The response rate was 74% (682 of 920). In the three months immediately before joining NHS Direct, 20% (134 of 682, 95% confidence interva...

Objective: This research was to study the influence of the improved emergency treatment procedure on the therapeutic effect of thrombolysis on Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) patients. Methods: 52 AMI thrombolysis patients that our department received and cured through the improved emergency treatment procedure from May to December 2016 are selected into the observation group. 52 AMI thrombol...

Nursing home administrators (n = 15) and directors of nursing (n = 15) who worked in nursing homes during the 2004-2005 Florida hurricane season participated in a series of 6 focus groups. The purpose of the focus groups was to explore issues faced by nursing home administrators, nurses, and residents during hurricane evacuations. A primary finding was that evacuating nursing home residents to ...

INTRODUCTION Patient satisfaction is a commonly assessed dimension of emergency department (ED) care quality. The ability of ED clinicians to estimate patient satisfaction is unknown. We sought to evaluate the ability of emergency medicine resident physicians and nurses to predict patient-reported satisfaction with physician and nursing care, pain levels, and understanding of discharge instruct...

OBJECTIVE The global threat of an influenza pandemic continues to grow and thus universities have begun emergency preparedness planning. This study examined stakeholder's knowledge, risk-perception, and willingness to volunteer. DESIGN AND SAMPLE The design of this study is a cross-sectional survey. Questionnaires were sent to 1,512 nursing students and were returned by 484, yielding a respon...