Nursing Assessment - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The effect of a mobile clinical decision support system on the diagnosis of obesity and overweight in acute and primary care encounters.

29 Jun 2009 The purpose of the study was to compare the proportion of obesity-related diagnoses in clinical encounters (N = 1874) documented by nurses using a personal digital assistant-based log with and without obesity decision support features. The ... Read more...

A comparison of novice and expert nurses' cue collection during clinical decision-making: verbal protocol analysis.

22 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: The type of cues used during clinical decision-making contexts is not well understood. Further, there are conflicting findings in relation to how novice and expert nurses use cues. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine if ... Read more...

[Validation of a tool for family caregivers]

30 May 2009 The purpose of this transcultural study was to translate and adapt for the province of Quebec (Canada) a tool for assessing the support needs of family caregivers of aging persons, as well as to validate the relevance and feasibility of its ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nursing Assessment - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Transporting telemetry patients. 30 Oct 2009
• The effect of a mobile clinical decision support system on the diagnosis of obesity and overweight in acute and primary care encounters. 29 Jun 2009
• [Care planning] 29 Jun 2009
• [Dual geriatric evaluation in a short-stay geriatric unit] 29 Jun 2009
• A comparison of novice and expert nurses' cue collection during clinical decision-making: verbal protocol analysis. 22 Jun 2009
• How to make the new conditions for coverage work in your dialysis clinic: Teaching self-management: new conditions emphasize patient participation in care. 30 May 2009
• [Validation of a tool for family caregivers] 30 May 2009
• Casting: complications and after care. 30 May 2009
• Does the Comprehensive International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for rheumatoid arthritis capture nursing practice? A Delphi survey. 17 May 2009
• Helping novice nurses make effective clinical decisions: the situated clinical decision-making framework. 29 Apr 2009
• Management issues in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 29 Apr 2009
• Do specialist community public health nurses assess risk factors for depression, suicide, and self-harm among South Asian mothers living in London? 29 Apr 2009
• Identifying the perception of needs of family members visiting and nurses working in the intensive care unit. 30 Mar 2009
• Development of the Hospital Nurse Surveillance Capacity Profile. 30 Mar 2009
• The improvement of wound-associated pain and healing trajectory with a comprehensive foot and leg ulcer care model. 27 Feb 2009
• Caring for the victim of child abuse in the pediatric intensive care unit. 27 Feb 2009
• [A day with the triage nurse in the emergency service admission] 27 Feb 2009
• [Education in targeted care planning] 27 Feb 2009
• [The nursing care plan guide] 27 Feb 2009
• Battle plan for brain attacks. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Nursing Assessment'

Definition: Evaluation of the nature and extent of nursing problems presented by a patient for the purpose of patient care planning.

Descriptor UI: D009730

Alternative terms: Nursing Assessment; Assessment, Nursing; Assessments, Nursing; Nursing Assessments; Protocols, Nursing; Nursing Protocol; Protocol, Nursing; Nursing Protocols;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.508.480;

History Note: 87(80); was see under NURSING PROCESS 1980-86, was NURSING DIAGNOSIS see under NURSING CARE 1975-79

Technical Notes: to evaluate nature & extent of nurs problems of patient to plan patient care; do not confuse with NURSING AUDIT (to evaluate quality of nurs care); DF: NURS ASSESS