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Marcinkowski, K. |
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Shortening hospital stays for orthopaedic patients |
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Journal Article |
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2000 |
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Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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6 |
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11 |
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28-29 |
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Surgery; Evidence-based medicine; Guidelines |
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The author provides a review of current protocols and presents new ways to manage the care of patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty, hip and knee replacement surgery. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1022 |
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Nakarada-Kordic, Ivana |
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Title |
Assessing mental models in multidisciplinary operating room teams |
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Book Whole |
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2016 |
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238 p. |
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Mental models; Operating room; Surgery; Assessment; Software; Momento |
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Aims to develop a new empirical method for assessing the similarity of mental models in surgery, focusing on laparotomy; to begin the process of validation of the new approach; and to demonstrate how the new approach could be used in clinical practice. Develops a software application (Momento) to sort key tasks in order to capture the information on mental models regarding task sequence and responsibility. Asks 20 6-person operating room (OR) teams, each comprising 3 sub-teams consisting of anaesthesia, surgery and nursing, to complete Momento prior to 2 simulated emergency laparotomies. Suggests the Momento approach could be used to improve teamwork in OR. |
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NZNO @ research @ |
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1561 |
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Pirret, A.M. |
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A preoperative scoring system to identify patients requiring postoperative high dependency care |
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Journal Article |
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2003 |
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Intensive & Critical Care Nursing |
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19 |
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5 |
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267-275 |
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Hospitals; Quality of health care; Surgery; Nursing; Clinical assessment |
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The incidence of postoperative complications is reduced with early identification of at risk patients and improved postoperative monitoring. This study describes the development and effect of a nursing preoperative assessment tool to identify patients at risk of postoperative complications and to reduce the number of acute admissions to ICU/HDU. All surgical patients admitted to a surgical ward for an elective surgical procedure (n=7832) over a 23-month period were concurrently scored on admission using the preoperative assessment tool. During the time period studied, acute admissions to ICU/HDU reduced from 40.37 to 19.11%. Only 24.04% of patients who had a PAS >4 were identified by the surgeon and/or anesthetist as being at risk of a postoperative complication, or if identified, no provision was made for improved postoperative monitoring. This study supports the involvement of nurses in identifying preoperatively patients at risk of a postoperative complication and in need of improved postoperative monitoring. The postoperative monitoring requirements for the PAS >4 patients were relatively low technology interventions. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 904 |
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888 |
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