Memorial Regional Hospital revamped its mobility program so patients would get the ambulation needed to achieve optimal outcomes. The benefits of mobility among hospitalized patients are ...

Measuring patient weight is considered a routine assessment that is frequently delegated to unregistered staff. Yet patient weight is a fundamental part of nutrition assessment and may be used to ...

In this second article of a six-part series on critical care medicine, we discuss patient assessment. The assessment process must consider the patientâ s physiological, sociological, psychological and ...

According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...

Ann Kutney-Lee ([email protected]) is a research fellow at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Matthew McHugh is an ...

BCEN's Trauma Nursing Specialty Certification Turns 10: a Milestone for Trauma Nursing, Patients and Trauma Care Innovation Celebrating "A Decade of Trauma Nursing Excellence" and the board-certified ...

Nursing-led remote evaluation improved triage, risk identification, and multidisciplinary preparedness in adolescents with ...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) inspired the quality improvement movement for US nursing homes with its 1986 report titled Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. 1 The report noted the ...