background: our aim was to investigate the effects of clinical application of perioperative predictive nursing on reducing psychiatric complications in intensive care unit (icu) patients after neurosurgery. methods: a total of 129 patients who underwent neurosurgery and received intensive care were enrolled in our study from february 2013 to february 2014. these patients were divided into two g...

This study assessed the positive and negative predictive values and the sensitivity and specificity of a nursing dysphagia screening tool and the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) for the identification of dysphagia for veterans hospitalized with ischemic stroke.A secondary objective of this study was to evaluate the speech-language pathology consult rate before and after the n...

OBJECTIVE to identify the predictive factors for the nursing diagnoses in people living with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. METHOD a cross-sectional study, undertaken with 113 people living with AIDS. The data were collected using an interview script and physical examination. Logistic regression was used for the data analysis, considering a level of significance of 10%. RESULTS the pr...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to investigate the effects of clinical application of perioperative predictive nursing on reducing psychiatric complications in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients after neurosurgery. METHODS A total of 129 patients who underwent neurosurgery and received intensive care were enrolled in our study from February 2013 to February 2014. These patients were divided into two g...

HOULIHAN GD (1999) Journal of Advanced Nursing 29(5): 1137-1143 The evaluation of the ‘stages of change’ model for use in counselling client’s undergoing predictive testing for Huntington’s disease Nurses are increasingly working in new and novel situations which may be outside the realms of traditional nursing practice. Therefore when evaluating theories and models that may be utilized in thes...

BACKGROUND Discharge from hospital to a nursing home represents a major event in the life of an older person and should only follow a comprehensive functional and medical assessment. A previous study identified 3 dependency scales able to discriminate across outcomes for older people admitted to an acute setting. We wished to determine if a single dependency scale derived from the 3 scales coul...

AIM To determine the differences in subjective quality of life between elderly people living in a nursing home and those living in their own homes after brain stroke, and to determine the contribution of demographic variables and different quality of life domains to the explanation of self-assessed quality of life. METHODS The study included 60 elderly men and women, 30 living in their own ho...

RATIONALE Malnutrition screening among nursing home residents is often performed with tools developed for use among older subjects, and sometimes with tools designed for an adult population. Only a few tools have been designed specifically for the nursing home setting. This systematic review assesses the criterion and predictive validity of malnutrition screening tools used in nursing homes. ...

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...

BACKGROUND With recent reports of public enquiries into failure to care, universities are under pressure to ensure that candidates selected for undergraduate nursing programmes demonstrate academic potential as well as characteristics and values such as compassion, empathy and integrity. The Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) was used in one university as a way of ensuring that candidates had the ap...