Results of a survey measuring frequency, types, and reasons for missed care at three acute care hospitals in North Carolina are described. Results also are compared to those of a previous, similar study in the midwestern United States.
Results of a survey measuring frequency, types, and reasons for missed care at three acute care hospitals in North Carolina are described. Results also are compared to those of a previous, similar study in the midwestern United States.
Postoperative delirium is a major complication in hospitalized older adults. Implementation of a screening tool and evidence-based delirium-prevention protocol on a surgical unit increased nurses' knowledge regarding delirium, increased identification of delirium, and produced medical treatment alterations leading to positive patient outcomes.
Although the gluten-free diet has been recognized as therapeutic for individuals suffering from celiac disease, it has been promoted recently for other indications, such as autism, chronic fatigue syn- drome, and irritable bowel syndrome, or simply as a healthy dietary choice for anyone. The basics of the gluten-free diet are explored, with evidence-based indications and nursing implications when patients choose gluten-free.
Purpose: To determine how well an institutionally developed nurse dysphagia screening tool correctly identified the presence (sensitivity) or absence (specificity) of dysphagia in patients following acute stroke.
Methods: A method-comparison design was used to compare results of the Nurse Dysphagia Screen to the dysphagia evaluation by a speech and language pathologist (SLP). Each newly diagnosed participant served as his or her control, with both dysphagia evaluations (nurse, SLP) occurring within 2 hours of each other. Sensitivity and specificity of the Nurse Dysphagia Screen was calculated using standard formulas.
Results: For 49 patients evaluated following stroke, average age was 71.7 (SD +/- 13.5). Twenty-five subjects were female and 24 were male. The majority of the participants had strokes identified as ischemic in origin (n=35). The SLP found 18 (37%) participants had a positive dysphagia assessment. The Nurse Dysphagia Screen was positive in 16 of 18 participants screened positive by SLP, resulting in some type of dietary restriction. The Nurse Dysphagia Screen was negative in 28 of the 31 patients screened as negative by SLP. Sensitivity and specificity of the Nurse Dysphagia Screen were 89% and 90%, respectively.
Conclusions: An easy-to-use, institutionally developed nurse dysphagia screening tool successfully identified patients with swallowing difficulties after stroke later diagnosed by SLP.
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