Nurse specialists have helped create a dementia-friendly X-ray room with woodland imagery and music tailored to each patient. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Dementia affects a person’s ability and desire to eat and drink to meet their nutritional requirements. This article identifies problems associated with nutritional status in people living with dementia and outlines the effectiveness of interventions to counteract the negative effects on nutritional status. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. To understand the views of qualified medical practitioners regarding “reasonable adjustments” and the quality of the care and treatment provided to adults with intellectual disabilities when admitted to acute hospitals as inpatients.
Open access journal. Complex challenges may arise when patients present to emergency services with an advance decision to refuse life-saving treatment following suicidal behaviour. This is a multi-site study in England.
Rebecca Stevenson on a review of general hospital staff stigmatise people, attitudes towards patients with comorbid mental and physical health conditions.
Penny Harrison, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at De Montfort University, Leicester, reviews ways to ensure a learning disability is not a barrier to care. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
People with serious mental illness (SMI) are more likely to experience severe health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and stroke, and are likely to die earlier, than the general population. This article explores the reasons for such disparities, using a case study approach to outline the ways that general nurses can support people with SMI when they access general healthcare services. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Nurses often care for people with mental health conditions in general clinical settings. In these situations, they have a responsibility to ensure that the individual’s physical, social and psychological needs are assessed and met. Nurses practising in general clinical settings should be familiar with the skills and knowledge required to meet the needs of people with mental health conditions. This article aims to provide nurses practising in general clinical settings with an understanding of such conditions and the associated effects on an individual’s physical health. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
An emerging body of evidence underscores the often-intensive perinatal healthcare needs of women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). However, population-based research examining postpartum experiences of US women with IDD is sparse. We examined emergency department (ED) use in the postpartum period among Massachusetts mothers with IDD. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
For the first time, the College has developed an audit toolkit to support Emergency Ddepartments treating children to monitor how well they are meeting the 70 “Facing the Future” standards. Dr John Criddle and Dr Virginia Davies discuss the development of the toolkit and its impact for children in mental health crisis.
Hospital readmission in persons with dementia is becoming a critical safety and cost issue. The purpose of this review is to systematically assess published evidence on hospital readmissions in persons with dementia, including rate, clinical reasons, risk factors, and prevention programs. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Open access. To develop a scoring system model that predicts mortality within 30 days of admission of patients older than 80 years admitted to intensive care units (ICUs).
This article discusses perioperative variables that can be used to identify patients who are more vulnerable to experiencing cognitive decline after surgery. It also highlights some screening tools that could be useful for early detection and for planning nursing care. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Delirium is an important postoperative complication, yet predictive risk factors for postoperative delirium severity remain elusive. We hypothesized that the NSQIP risk calculation for serious complications (NSQIP‐SC) or risk of death (NSQIP‐D), and cognitive tests of executive function (Trail Making Test A and B [TMTA, TMTB]), would be predictive of postoperative delirium severity. Further, we demonstrate how advanced statistical techniques can be used to identify candidate predictors.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Delirium is a common postoperative complication with implications on morbidity and mortality. Less is known about the psychological impact of delirium in patients and relatives. This study aimed to;
1. Quantitatively describe distress related to postoperative delirium in older surgical patients and their relatives using the distress thermometer.
2. Examine the association between degree of distress and features of delirium on the Delirium Rating Scale (DRS).
3. Examine the association between recall of delirium and features of delirium on the Delirium Rating Scale (DRS). . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
When nurses ‘think pain’ and take appropriate action, it can transform patients’ lives. In 2018 Julie Willoughby came up with the idea for a campaign to help raise awareness of pain in people with dementia. But the seeds of the campaign were sown many years ago, when a shocking incident on an acute hospital ward made her appreciate the lack of awareness of the issue in general healthcare settings. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details
In response to increasing numbers of older people in general hospitals who have cognitive impairment such as dementia and delirium, many hospitals have developed education and training programmes to prepare staff for this area of clinical practice.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
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Many adults with intellectual disabilities require nutritional support as feeding problems are prevalent in this population. While many types of nutritional support are available, enteral feeding tubes, such as nasogastric (NG) tubes, are considered safe and effective. NG tube feeding is a common clinical procedure carried out to maintain patients’ nutritional needs when they have swallowing difficulties or cannot tolerate oral feeding. Insertion of an NG tube provides adequate nutrition and improves positive health outcomes and quality of life, but being fed through an NG tube may alter patients’ perceptions of feeding and mealtimes. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.