Journal of clinical nursing
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Aims and objective. To verify association between PU development with nursing workload and illness severity and to verify whether nursing workload and illness severity are related with Braden Scale scores. Background. Critically ill patients are more susceptible to treatment complications because of the severity of their clinical condition. Design. Prospective descriptive study. ⋯ However, nursing workload acted as a protective factor. Illness severity, nursing workload and age were related to Braden scores. Relevance to clinical practice. Accurate identification of risk factors and the use of clinical judgment in skin assessment are prerequisites for determining appropriate strategies to prevent pressure ulcers, to improve quality of care for patient safety and to reduce length of ICU and hospital stay and costs.
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To examine the relationships of social support and coping strategies to health-related quality of life among primary caregivers of stroke survivors in China. ⋯ Community healthcare providers may need to help caregivers strengthen strategies that are effective (planning, active coping, seeking instrumental and emotional support) and change those that are not helpful (venting, denial and self-blame).
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To investigate the circumstances of nursing care eight hours before serious adverse events (=SAE's) on medical and surgical nursing units with subsequent in-hospital mortality in order to identify the extent to which these SAE's were potentially preventable. ⋯ Timely detection of deteriorating patients to assist staff to improve their outcomes appears to be jeopardised by a number of practices and factors and merits deeper study.