Nursing Audit
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Wound care teams: redesigning community nursing services.

30 Aug 2009 A pioneering community-based multi-disciplinary wound care team, working alongside a tissue viability service, developed within East Lancashire teaching PCT. The drive to push the nurse-led wound care agenda forward requires powerful champions to ... Read more...

Needle-stick injury: a novel intervention to reduce the occupational health and safety risk in the haemodialysis setting.

30 Aug 2009 Needle-stick injury (NSI) is a major occupational health and safety issue facing healthcare professionals. The administration of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESA) in haemodialysis patients represents a major cause for injections. The purpose ... Read more...

Validity and reliability of an oral care practice survey for the orally intubated adult critically ill patient.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Oral care is proposed as key to preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia, yet little work has been done to measure reliably current oral care practices nationwide. Five critical care oral care surveys are described in the literature; ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nursing Audit'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ring! Ring!: safeguarding patient information with password protection for phone calls. 30 Oct 2009
• Wound care teams: redesigning community nursing services. 30 Aug 2009
• Needle-stick injury: a novel intervention to reduce the occupational health and safety risk in the haemodialysis setting. 30 Aug 2009
• Validity and reliability of an oral care practice survey for the orally intubated adult critically ill patient. 30 Aug 2009
• The implementation of an end-of-life integrated care pathway in a Chinese population. 30 Jul 2009
• Duly Authorized Officers' practices under mental health law in New Zealand: Are nurses meeting the requirements of the law? 30 Jul 2009
• Stoma care nursing management: cost implications in community care. 30 Jul 2009
• Auditing the nursing standard for weighing patients on an acute medical unit. 29 Jun 2009
• Documentation. 29 Jun 2009
• Uncertainty over safeguards. 29 Jun 2009
• An intensive nurse-led occlusion therapy programme. 29 Jun 2009
• Managing pain using heat and cold therapy. 29 Jun 2009
• Nurses are vital in implementing the osteoporosis care manifesto. 30 May 2009
• Developing a triage tool for paediatric care. 30 May 2009
• [Computerized standard report for MDK (Medical Service of Public Health Insurance) evaluation of inpatient geriatric nursing: the initial overview] 30 May 2009
• Off-site expert support for nurses undertaking ECGs in primary care. 29 Apr 2009
• An assessment tool for acutely ill medical patients. 29 Apr 2009
• Is this the right patient? An educational initiative to improve compliance with two patient identifiers. 29 Apr 2009
• Evaluation of quality improvement initiative in pediatric oncology: implementation of aggressive hydration protocol. 30 Mar 2009
• Nurse satisfaction and creation of an admission, discharge, and teaching nurse position. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Nursing Audit'

Definition: A detailed review and evaluation of selected clinical records by qualified professional personnel for evaluating quality of nursing care.

Descriptor UI: D009731

Alternative terms: Nursing Audit; Audit, Nursing; Audits, Nursing; Nursing Audits;

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

Tree Number: N04.761.700.250.520; N05.700.175.520;

History Note: 68

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