Nursing Process
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Measuring the effect of patient comfort rounds on practice environment and patient satisfaction: a pilot study.

30 Jul 2009 Hourly rounding in the acute hospital setting has been proposed as an intervention to increase patient satisfaction and safety, and improve the nursing practice environment, but the innovation has not been adequately tested. A quasi-experimental ... Read more...

Measuring spiritual care with informatics.

29 Jun 2009 Nursing is at a critical juncture in creating data repositories that support nursing research and theory development, as health systems adopt and design electronic health records. This article discusses how informatics theory can be used to guide ... Read more...

Innovations at the intersection of academia and practice: facilitating graduate nursing students' learning about quality improvement and patient safety.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: Quality and safety are high priorities for US hospitals today. This focus is likely to intensify, given the rapidly changing and complex health care environment. While health care organizations are initiating a number of strategies to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Nursing Process'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The legalities of nursing documentation. 30 Jul 2009
• Measuring the effect of patient comfort rounds on practice environment and patient satisfaction: a pilot study. 30 Jul 2009
• Measuring spiritual care with informatics. 29 Jun 2009
• Case study: trisomy 13, a palliative care case. 29 Jun 2009
• Unlocking the secrets of locked-in syndrome. 29 Jun 2009
• Innovations at the intersection of academia and practice: facilitating graduate nursing students' learning about quality improvement and patient safety. 29 Jun 2009
• Identifying the core components of cultural competence: findings from a Delphi study. 15 Jun 2009
• Nurses' experiences of guideline implementation: a focus group study. 15 Jun 2009
• Effect of bar-code-assisted medication administration on medication error rates in an adult medical intensive care unit. 13 Jun 2009
• Knowledge, attitudes and practice among nursing staff concerning pressure ulcer prevention and treatment--a survey in a Swedish healthcare setting. 30 May 2009
• [Nurses' role in cases of total pain] 30 May 2009
• Pain management in the nursing home. 30 May 2009
• [Reflections on nurse prescribing in Primary Health Care] 4 May 2009
• Helping novice nurses make effective clinical decisions: the situated clinical decision-making framework. 29 Apr 2009
• Clinical pathways: the Ottawa Hospital experience. 29 Apr 2009
• Family Systems Nursing: re-examined. 29 Apr 2009
• Cultural competence and holistic practice: implications for nursing education, practice, and research. 29 Apr 2009
• [Learning assessment in the nursing process] 30 Mar 2009
• Case study: home nursing care for a 62-year-old woman with multiple health problems. 30 Mar 2009
• A pilot study to validate the priority nursing interventions classification interventions and nursing outcomes classification outcomes for the nursing diagnosis "excess fluid volume" in cardiac patients. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Nursing Process'

Definition: The sum total of nursing activities which includes assessment (identifying needs), intervention (ministering to needs), and evaluation (validating the effectiveness of the help given).

Descriptor UI: D009736

Alternative terms: Nursing Process; Process, Nursing; Nursing Processes; Processes, Nursing;

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

Tree Number: N04.590.233.508;

History Note: 80

Technical Notes: "total of nursing care activities"; do not confuse with NURSING (the profession), NURSING CARE (the patient), NURSING SERVICES; DF: NURS PROCESS