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Discharge Summary Forms01:31

Discharge Summary Forms

The discharge summary is crucial as it enables a smooth transition from a healthcare facility to a patient's home or another care setting. This critical document facilitates seamless continuity of care, ensuring patients receive the necessary support and attention.
Here's a detailed look at the key components and guidelines for preparing a discharge summary:
Planning Nursing Care I01:21

Planning Nursing Care I

The planning phase of the nursing process helps nurses set priorities, outline patient-centered goals and expected outcomes, and tailor nursing interventions to align with the aligned care plan. Through the planning phase, the nurse applies critical thinking skills to align and develop interventions according to the patient's needs. It provides continuity of care allowing patients to receive the maximum benefit from treatment. It serves as a pilot plan for allocating individual staff to a...
Formulating and Validating Nursing Diagnosis II01:25

Formulating and Validating Nursing Diagnosis II

Nursing diagnoses represent a problem validated by major defining characteristics. There are four categories of nursing diagnoses: problem-focused, risk, health promotion or wellness, and syndrome. The anatomy of a nursing diagnosis includes three components: problem statement or diagnostic label, defining characteristics, and related factors.
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Documentation of Nursing Diagnosis01:10

Documentation of Nursing Diagnosis

The nurse documents nursing diagnoses and enters them into the patient record. The identified patient's nursing diagnosis is either written out with a plan of care or entered into the electronic health record.
In some settings, data-driven computerized decision support systems are in place, allowing for more accurate nursing diagnoses. The database within one of these systems includes diagnostic labels defining characteristics, activities, and indicators for nursing. A nurse enters assessment...
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Nursing Diagnosis

Following assessment, a nursing diagnosis is the next step in the nursing process. It begins after the nurse has collected and recorded the patient data. The purpose of diagnosing is to identify how the client responds to actual or potential health processes, identify factors that bestow or that cause health problems, the etiologies, and identify resources or strengths the individual, group, or community can draw on to prevent or resolve problems.
The nursing diagnosis focuses on evidence-based...
Formulating and Validating Nursing Diagnosis I01:26

Formulating and Validating Nursing Diagnosis I

A nursing diagnosis is written when the nurse recognizes a cluster of essential patient data indicating health problems treated with independent nursing interventions. The standardized terminologies of a nursing diagnosis help nurses identify and treat patients' problems. Every electronic health record that uses nursing diagnosis must employ standard diagnostic terminology. Developing an efficient, individualized care plan begins with accurate nursing diagnoses.
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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit

Published on: September 30, 2020

Diagnosis, admission, discharge.

Mark Everard1

  • 1Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, UK. m.l.everard@sheffield.ac.uk

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews
|August 5, 2009
PubMed
Summary

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of severe lower respiratory infections in young children. Predicting illness severity and hospital admission for RSV remains challenging, with no definitive tests available.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatrics
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Virology

Background:

  • Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of acute lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children, particularly during epidemic seasons.
  • Diagnosing RSV infection is generally straightforward, but assessing the severity of associated illness and predicting the need for hospitalization or intensive care is complex.
  • Clinical assessment, patient risk factors, and social determinants influence management decisions, including admission and supportive care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the diagnostic challenges and clinical assessment criteria for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in pediatric patients.
  • To explore factors influencing hospital admission, supportive care, and oxygen administration in young children with RSV.
  • To highlight variations in hospitalization duration and their association with nosocomial infections.

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Main Methods:

  • Review of clinical guidelines and literature concerning RSV diagnosis and management in pediatric populations.
  • Analysis of factors contributing to the clinical assessment of illness severity and the decision-making process for hospital admission.
  • Examination of criteria for oxygen therapy and comparison of hospitalization lengths across different geographical regions.

Main Results:

  • Clinical assessment of severity and associated risk factors are primary, yet subjective, criteria for managing RSV illness.
  • No validated scoring systems or tests reliably predict the need for supportive care or high dependency unit (HDU) admission.
  • Significant international variations exist in hospitalization duration for RSV, with longer admissions linked to increased nosocomial infection rates.

Conclusions:

  • Accurate prediction of RSV illness severity and resource utilization remains a clinical challenge, relying heavily on experienced judgment.
  • Standardized criteria for supportive care and oxygen administration are lacking, leading to variability in practice.
  • Minimizing hospitalization duration is crucial to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections in pediatric RSV patients.