BACKGROUND In nursing home care, new care environments directed towards small-scale and homelike environments are developing. The green care farm, which provides 24-h nursing home care for people with dementia, is one such new care environment. Knowledge is needed on the relation between environmental features of green care farms such as nature, domesticity and offering care in small groups and...

MEDSURG Nursing—December 2008—Vol. 17/No. 6 429 clinical nurse specialist led to the development of an evidenced-based approach to reduce falls. A review of the literature was performed, and one study was found that validated the use of frequent nursing rounds as a strategy to decrease falls and call light use (Meade, Bursell, & Ketelsen, 2006). The interventions proposed in this study seemed t...

To evaluate the mastery level of clean catheterization-related knowledge and operational procedures for patients/caregivers that needed clean intermittent catheterization of spinal cord injury, evaluation sheet was applied to sixty cases of spinal cord injury patients or their caregivers to evaluate their mastery level of clean catheterization-related knowledge and operational procedures. Then ...

BACKGROUND : Electronic health records (EHRs) are becoming a required technology across the health care sector. Long-term care (LTC) facilities have lagged other settings in adopting health information technologies but represent an area where significant care coordination benefits might be realized. Nevertheless, managers face many of the same challenges implementing EHRs that exist in other en...

OBJECTIVE To analyse predictors of costs in dementia from a societal perspective in a longitudinal setting. METHOD Healthcare resource use and costs were assessed retrospectively using a questionnaire in four waves at 6-month intervals in a sample of dementia patients (N = 175). Sociodemographic data, dementia severity and comorbidity at baseline, cognitive impairment and impairment in basic ...

BACKGROUND Suspended particles and ozone have been associated with varying degrees of cardiac autonomic dysfunction. METHODS In Mexico City, residents from a nursing home underwent heart rate variability analysis every other day for 3 months. Indoor and outdoor PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 mm in diameter) were measured daily at the nursing home. Levels of ozone and other atmospheri...

BACKGROUND Insertion of an External Ventricular Drain (EVD) is arguably one of the most common and important lifesaving procedures in neurologic intensive care unit. Various forms of acute brain injury benefit from the continuous intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion provided by an EVD. After insertion, EVD monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting ess...

You would not be surprised if you opened tomorrow’s newspaper to read: ‘Nurses in plea for action over £115m hospital superbugs.’ But that headline has been published before, in a 1996 edition of the Daily Mail. It accompanied a story about a resolution at RCN congress calling for a nationwide surveillance scheme to monitor antibiotic-resistant infections. Now, with an election looming, the pol...

A study to assess the effectiveness of selected nursing interventions on health related quality of life and activities of daily living among COPD patients in selected tertiary hospital, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. The aim of the study was to impart the selected nursing interventions applied to the COPD patients in medical and pulmonary wards. The conceptual framework used in this study was Widen...

[1] New space-based observations of South Florida with interferometric SAR (InSAR) reveal spatially detailed, quantitative images of water levels in the Everglades. The new data capture dynamic water level topography, providing the first detailed picture of wetland sheet flow. We observe localized radial sheet flow in addition to well-known southward unidirectional sheet flow, modelled as a lin...