War on Wounds in the Adult Intensive Care Units
War on Wounds in the Adult Intensive Care Units Janet Nowland MS, RN, CWOCN1 Jocelyn Wickey BSN, RN2 1Team Leader, Wound Care Team Janet.Nowland@sjmc.org 2Project Specialist St. John Medical Center…
Utilizing a Resource Nurse Model to Improve Nosocomial Pressure Ulcer Rates
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Introduction
Introduction NDNQI® invited 11 hospitals to share their stories of successful nursing quality improvement in this chapter. Hospitals were selected by two methods. First, regression analysis was used to rank…
Using NDNQI Reports for Quality Improvement
Using NDNQI Reports for Quality Improvement Effective quality improvement (QI) involves a series of steps or phases. Once a problem is identified, the QI team examines potential causes, then selects…
Evaluating and Improving Nursing Quality
Evaluating and Improving Nursing Quality Nurses have always been instrumental in improving patient safety and the quality of health care. As the nursing profession was born, Florence Nightingale used data…
4: Selected Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
CHAPTER 4 Selected Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence OVERVIEW One in five children and adolescents of any age in the United States (20%) suffers from a major psychiatric disorder that…
7: Depressive Disorders
CHAPTER 7 Depressive Disorders OVERVIEW Happiness and unhappiness are appropriate responses to life events. When sadness, grief, or elation is extremely intense and the mood unduly prolonged, a mood disorder…
9: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
CHAPTER 9 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders OVERVIEW The word psychosis refers to symptoms that include hallucinations (seriously impaired perception, e.g., seeing, hearing, smelling something that is not there),…
8: Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
CHAPTER 8 Bipolar Spectrum Disorders OVERVIEW Bipolar spectrum disorders are among the most serious of the neurobiological mental disorders that often leave people destitute; with shattered friendships, families, and partner…
D: Assessment Guides
APPENDIX D Assessment Guides APPENDIX D-1 DEFENSE MECHANISMS From Varcarolis, E. M. (2002). Foundations of psychiatric mental health nursing (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders. APPENDIX D-2 HAMILTON RATING SCALE FOR ANXIETY…
