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Clinical Decision Making
Clinical decision making requires good quality judgment including critical thinking
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Paid Careworkers In The Home
When someone is being cared for at home there can be a lot of people involved. Sometimes paid care workers will also come in to provide support.
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Nurses
The Nurses Hub brings together evidence based palliative care information and quality resources to help nurses find relevant information quickly and easily.
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Mental health nurse
Trusted information about mental health nurses, including what a mental health nurse is, what a mental health nurse does, where a mental health nurse works and how a mental health nurse can help me from leading Australian health organisations.
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Cancer Nurse Coordination Service
The Cancer Nurse Coordination Service is a team of specialist nurses located in both metropolitan Perth and rural regions of Western Australia.
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Nursing strike- breastfeeding refusal
A nursing strike refers to a babys refusal to breastfeed and usually occurs after breastfeeding is well established. When breast milk is rejected it can be distressing for both mother and baby, but with patience and professional advice breastfeeding problems like a nursing strike can be dealt with.
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Professional Standards Committee decisions
Professional Standards Committee hearings are conducted by the Medical Council of NSW and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW are generally held in public.
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Palliative care in RAC
High care facilities (nursing homes) will be able to provide for the palliative care needs of their residents. Most "ageing in place low care facilities (hostels) will do as well. High care facilities have registered and enrolled nurses to provide skilled nursing care at all times.
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Professional Standards Committee decisions
Professional Standards Committee hearings are conducted by the Medical Council of NSW and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW are generally held in public. Published decisions of the Medical Professional Standards Committees from 1 October 2008 onwards are available on the website of the Medical Council of NSW's website.
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Care Planning
Professional standards for nurses stipulate that all nursing care is based on thorough assessment of needs and is evidence-based. This is particularly important when providing care for residents approaching the end of their lives.
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Specialist home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses | Cochrane
This review aimed to examine whether specialist paediatric home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses reduce the number of hospital admissions and length of stay, enhance health care in the community and reduce stress for families at the time of their child's illness. It is an update of our original review published in 2006. We found seven relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of total of 840 children aged from birth to 18 years with acute and/or chronic illnesses receiving either specialist home-based nursing services or conventional health care. The outcomes included use of health care services, physical and mental health, satisfaction, adverse health outcomes and costs. We decided not to combine the results of these RCTs because of the variety in types of services provided, types of participants and the outcome measures used. The results of individual RCTs show improved satisfaction with home-based care with no adverse impact on physical health outcomes for children. There is some evidence that specialist home-based nursing services reduce the length of hospital stay; however, there is no evidence that it leads to a reduction in use of hospital services. Further trials are required, measuring health, satisfaction, service use and long-term costs.
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Nursing and midwifery workforce (AIHW)
This web report outlines the workforce characteristics of nurses and midwives in 2014.
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Nursing record systems to improve nursing practice and health care | Cochrane
When patients are in hospital or sick at home and visited by a nurse, it is important that the care they receive is recorded properly. Nurses record a wide variety of information about a patients care and progress. For example, nurses would record a patients status while in ICU every hour, or when and how pain medication should be given and when it was given, or the progress of a pregnant woman visiting a clinic. These nursing records are a way for nurses to share care information with other nurses, other health care professionals and sometimes with patients. This is Information that can ensure patient care is consistent when staff changes shifts or information that can be used later as a history of previous care.
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Nurse specialist care for bronchiectasis | Cochrane
Bronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease characterised by productive cough and recurrent chest infections. Untreated patients have a poor quality of life and may eventually develop respiratory failure. This review evaluates the process of care in this group of patients and compares nurse led care with the traditional model of physician directed treatment. Only one trial was found to be suitable for evaluation and this showed no significant difference between nurse and doctor led care in terms of lung function, infective flare ups, or quality of life but significantly increased costs in nurse led care due to hospital admissions and use of intravenous antibiotics.
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Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes | Cochrane
Many countries have introduced new models for staffing hospital units with nursing staff in response to shortages of qualified nurses and changes in patient care needs. These include changes in the mix of qualified and unqualified nurses within the hospital workforce, the mix of nurses with different qualifications and different levels of experience, and the way in which nursing staff are allocated to hospital units and to individual patients receiving care on each hospital unit. We identified 15 relevant studies that were considered to be of an appropriate design to be included in this review.
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What is the best nursing handover style to ensure continuity of information for hospital patients? | Cochrane
A nursing handover occurs when one nurse hands over the responsibility of care for a patient to another nurse, for example, at the end of a nursing shift. On average, nursing handovers occur three times a day for each patient.
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Can organisational infrastructures be effective in promoting evidence-based nursing practice? | Cochrane
Nurses and midwives form the bulk of the clinical health workforce, and play a central role in all health service delivery. There is potential to improve health care quality if nurses routinely use the best available evidence in their clinical practice. Since many of the factors perceived by nurses as barriers to the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) lie at the organisational level, it is of interest to devise and assess the effectiveness of models to change healthcare organisations in order to promote the use of EBP among nurses successfully.
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Specialist nurse counselling interventions for patients with inflammatory bowel disease | Cochrane
The number and type of gastroenterology and inflammatory bowel disease specialist nurses is increasing, along with the variety of roles performed in patient care and management. This review included one low quality trial of a specialist nurse counselling intervention compared with routine outpatient clinic follow up. No data were reported on remission outcomes. Counselling by a specialist nurse might improve mental health related quality of life for some IBD patients in the short term. However, the poor quality of the one included study does not allow for any definitive conclusions regarding the impact of the nurse-led counselling program. Better designed studies are needed to assess the impact of specialist nursing interventions on the care and management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
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Nurse-led assessment of fitness for surgery | Cochrane
Before people undergo surgery, they must be examined so the practitioner can confirm that they are fit enough to tolerate the procedure. Traditionally, doctors have performed this assessment after admission to hospital and before surgery, but as many people now have day-case surgery, fitness is frequently assessed in nurse-led outpatient clinics. These changes offer many potential benefits, but it is important to examine their impact on outcomes such as cancellation of surgery and perioperative complications. In February 2013, we searched medical databases to look for controlled trials of participants who had undergone surgery and had been randomly assigned to nurse- or doctor-led preoperative assessment (POA). We found two trials, one randomized and one quasi-randomized. Both studies were conducted in the UK and compared POA performed by the nurse with POA performed by the non-specialist doctor. One studied 1874 adult participants who were undergoing elective surgery, and the other studied 595 children who were undergoing day surgery. Neither study reported on cancellations of surgery, gain in participant information or knowledge or perioperative complications. Reported outcomes focused on the accuracy of the assessment. As there is currently no evidence from trials concerning the impact of nurse-led POA on patient outcomes, we are unable to make any recommendations for practice on the basis of this review.
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Infection control strategies for preventing the spread of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people | Cochrane
Infection control strategies for preventing the spread of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people
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