Background: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust had no common instrument to assess function throughout the trust. Aim: To compare three functional assessment tools, and provide evidence of ...

The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool developed by the Geriatrics Division of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass ...

The Department of Health has published a thromboembolism risk assessment strategy, recommended for use with all patients on admission to hospital. Nerys Hairon reports Subscribe today for unlimited ...

ROCHESTER — As health care institutions across the state and country experience staff shortages, efforts to retain staff have become more prominent. Nurses, who provide much of the hands-on care for ...

The components of the Resilience at Work tool help nurse managers identify how to build this important skill. Burnout is a common experience for bedside nurses. But burnout also affects nurse managers ...

As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into hospitals and patient care, questions arise as to when and how often nurses can override the algorithm and if disciplinary action should be ...

First-year nurses often have difficulties while bridging the gap between educational theory and required workplace practice. In the fast-paced medical field, sufficient guidance is hard to come by, so ...

With accelerated population ageing and the growing prevalence of multimorbidity, polypharmacy in older adults has become a major challenge for medication safety and treatment effectiveness.