The CPOT – a tool for pain assessment for intensive care patients
Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.
Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.
Women who had given birth by caesarean section often downplayed their own complaints, felt left to their own devices and received invaluable assistance from their partner.
The instrument measures the collaboration between healthcare personnel and the relatives of frail elderly patients in acute hospital wards. Having a Norwegian version of the instrument will mean it can be used in our clinical practice and research.
Residents with pain suffered from several health issues and presented with physical as well as mental symptoms. Healthcare personnel can help by providing more effective and appropriate treatment and nursing care.
In order to identify children who need a referral to a speech therapist, public health nurses must pay attention to repetitions, blocks and prolongations in the child’s speech.
De-escalation training improved students’ de-escalation skills and boosted their confidence in coping with patient aggression.
Many medical records lacked information about nutritional risk, and few patients at nutritional risk were followed up.
The current practice of using oxygen therapy has proven to be incomplete.
It is an ordeal to be diagnosed with and treated for testicular cancer. Various resources can help patients to handle the difficult situation more easily.
For nurses to be able to attend to their patients’ nutritional status in the best possible way, they need a regular nursing home doctor who knows the nutritional wishes and needs of individual patients.