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Patient Characteristics Associated With False Arrhythmia Alarms In Intensive Care [Abstract 19717], Patricia Harris, Jessica K. Zègre-Hemsey, Tina Mammone, Daniel Schindler, Xiao Hu, Yong Bai, Steven M. Paul, Barbara J. Drew Nov 2014

Patient Characteristics Associated With False Arrhythmia Alarms In Intensive Care [Abstract 19717], Patricia Harris, Jessica K. Zègre-Hemsey, Tina Mammone, Daniel Schindler, Xiao Hu, Yong Bai, Steven M. Paul, Barbara J. Drew

Patricia Harris

Introduction: A high rate of false arrhythmia alarms leads to clinical alarm fatigue, i.e. desensitization and inappropriate silencing of alarms.

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Integrating Palliative Care Content Into A New Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum: The University Of Notre Dame, Australia – Sydney Experience, John M. Ramjan, Catherine M. Costa, Louise D. Hickman, Margot Kearns, Jane L. Phillips Aug 2014

Integrating Palliative Care Content Into A New Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum: The University Of Notre Dame, Australia – Sydney Experience, John M. Ramjan, Catherine M. Costa, Louise D. Hickman, Margot Kearns, Jane L. Phillips

Catherine M Costa

Background: The majority of society's deaths occur in a health care environment. Regardless of whether a death occurs in acute care, hospice, residential aged care or community settings, nurses are the health professionals that will spend the largest proportion of time with the patient who has a terminal condition and their families. As few nurses have specialist palliative care qualifications it is essential that nursing education prepares graduates to achieve the core capabilities required for the delivery of best evidenced based palliative care. This reality makes the integration of palliative care content into the undergraduate nursing curricula an important priority. …

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Student Evaluations Of Interprofessional Simulation, Rebecca Jensen, Deborah Poling Jun 2014

Student Evaluations Of Interprofessional Simulation, Rebecca Jensen, Deborah Poling

Rebecca S Jensen

Statement of problem While the 2010 report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” proposes that nurses work collaboratively with other health care professionals, relatively little has been published on the use of simulation to achieve this goal in nursing and other disciplines. Student ratings of and interprofessional simulation and its effect on collaboration with other disciplines will provide valuable information on ways to improve interprofessional simulations.

Hypotheses

  1. Students’ self-ratings of confidence for patient care will improve from beginning to end of the simulation.
  2. Students’ self-rating of collaborative learning will improve from beginning to end of the simulation.
  3. Students …

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Parental Perception Of Child Weight: A Concept Analysis, Nicole Mareno Dec 2013

Parental Perception Of Child Weight: A Concept Analysis, Nicole Mareno

Nicole Mareno

Aim
This article is a report of an analysis of the concept of parental perception of child weight.

Background
Perception is commonly studied, but lacks a strong conceptual definition. Concept analysis is important in providing a conceptual definition of parental perception of child weight.

Design
Rodgers's evolutionary view of concept analysis guided this enquiry.

Data sources
A search of multiple nursing and social sciences databases was undertaken, including CINAHL, Academic Search Complete, Science Direct, ProQuest, PsychINFO, Medline and SocINDEX.

Review methods
Data from 2000–2012 related to the concept of interest were reviewed. Fifty-eight articles meeting the inclusion criteria were included. …

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