Disease relevance of Nursing Staff

• The decision to withdraw treatment from a particular infant had to be unanimous among all the medical and nursing staff caring for that child and was based on a virtual certainty, not just of handicap, but of total incapacity--eg, microcephaly, spastic quadriplegia, and blindness [1].
• All three patients were started on fluvoxamine 25 mg/d; behaviors were monitored daily by the nursing staff and their primary care physicians and weekly by their psychiatrist using the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scales [2].
• AIMS: To determine the prevalence of type I hypersensitivity to latex allergens in the nursing staff of an Australian hospital [3].
• This article reports on an assessment of back pain and associated factors undertaken with nursing staff on nine NHS hospital wards and two private wards [4].
• In an NHS-funded randomised controlled trial, possibly representing more optimal protocol-led care, medical and nursing staff identified 73-81% of patients with acute myocardial infarction as eligible for cardiac rehabilitation [5].

Psychiatry related information on Nursing Staff

• Patient specimens (n = 34) were tested in the laboratory using both Abbott Laboratories ADx (ADx) and EZ-SCREEN (EZS-LAB), and by the nursing staff of an inpatient substance abuse treatment program using the EZ-SCREEN (EZS-RN) [6].
• CONCLUSION: Risperidone treatment was associated with an early and sustained reduction in nursing staff burden as measured using the M-NCAS compared with placebo treatment for older nursing home residents with dementia [7].

High impact information on Nursing Staff

• RESULTS: Orders for acetaminophen prn (as needed), without further explanation, were interpreted by the nursing staff as antipyretic orders; 78% of patients with such an order and fever received acetaminophen during the febrile episode [8].
• The accuracy and outcome of capillary blood glucose (CBG) monitoring as routinely performed by nursing staff were assessed [9].
• Psychiatric symptoms were monitored using the Psychiatric Symptom Assessment Scale performed by nursing staff blind to the haloperidol status but not to the ascorbic acid dosage [10].
• The Anesthetic Conserving Device allows easily titratable administration of isoflurane without costly equipment and can be safely managed by nursing staff [11].
• Parenteral drug administration errors by nursing staff on an acute medical admissions ward during day duty [12].

Biological context of Nursing Staff

• A method, based on bedside determinations of blood glucose by nursing staff, was designed to control the administration of insulin to diabetic patients during and following open heart surgery [13].
• The nursing staff examined the participants in order to obtain the following clinical characteristics: body mass index, blood pressure and blood glucose levels [14].

Associations of Nursing Staff with chemical compounds

• CONCLUSIONS: The blue gallium nitride LED device is as effective as conventional phototherapy and is readily accepted by nursing staff [15].
• An external quality assessment scheme is described for on-ward testing of blood glucose by nursing staff using the Glucometer II/Glucostix system [16].
• Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada. METHOD: On August 6, 1996, nursing staff of IMCN notified Infection Control that six infants had developed respiratory tract symptoms including nasal discharge and cough [17].
• Cost analysis indicated that nalbuphine is more cost-effective than meperidine if recovery-room nursing staff salaries exceed $16,000 per year [18].
• Nevertheless, it is important to minimize the exposure of nursing staff to HN2 [19].

Gene context of Nursing Staff

• MRSA-positive admissions increased progressively from 1993; nursing staff workload increased, areas available for alternative patient accommodation were reduced, the resulting ward closures interfered with clinical services, and hence the control policy was relaxed in mid-1995 [20].
• The image profile for the EPRS revealed a more negative perception of the EPRS by the nursing staff [21].
• The lack of significant complications with the NP airway and its acceptability to nursing staff, patients, and their parents suggest that this method deserves more widespread use in PRS and perhaps in other situations in which high upper respiratory tract obstruction is predominant [22].
• The cumulative dose to nursing staff for the week after treatment was dependent on patient mobility and was estimated at 0.08 mSv for a self-caring patient to 6.3 mSv for a totally helpless patient (1840 MBq/group A) [23].
• We have compared tactile assessment of the train-of-four (TOF) count and TOF ratio by nursing staff, with measurements made by a new acceleromyographic monitor, the TOF-Watch [24].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Nursing Staff

• Link nurse groups or networks are used to enhance practice at clinical level (Cooper, 2001), improve the collaboration and education of nursing staff (MacArthur, 1998) and, therefore, have an effect on patient care [25].
• Determination of platinum in workroom air and in blood and urine from nursing staff attending patients receiving cisplatin chemotherapy [26].
• For subjects receiving the standard denture soak treatment, the nursing staff was instructed to disinfect the maxillary dentures in 0.2% chlorhexidine digluconate solution overnight for 14 days, changing the solution every two days [27].
• Initial management usually includes hospital admission and, ideally, care by a specialized team involving Physician, Surgeon and Nursing Staff. Prompt and adequate blood replacement is the most important measure followed by diagnosis, usually based on flexible endoscopy [28].
• Pediatric analgesia with epidural fentanyl citrate administered by nursing staff [29].

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