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American Journal of Nursing
April 2008
Carla Graf |
The Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale The Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) Scale assesses a person's ability to perform tasks such as using a telephone, doing laundry, and handling finances. The scale may provide an early warning of functional decline.   |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2008
Wallace & Shelkey |
Monitoring Functional Status in Hospitalized Older Adults The Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living can help nurses detect subtle changes in health and prevent functional decline. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2008 |
How to Try This: Working with Families of Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia Families provide a considerable amount of informal care and support for older adults living with dementia. And when an older adult with dementia is hospitalized, family caregivers should be seen as important sources of information and included as valuable members of the health care team. |
American Journal of Nursing
August 2008
Stockdell & Amella |
How to Try This: The Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia Scale: Determining How Much Help People with Dementia Need at Mealtime. The Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia scale is an 11-item instrument developed to assess eating and feeding problems in people with late-stage dementia. Using the scale, a nurse can identify a patient's needs and build an effective care plan. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2007
Terry Fulmer |
How to Try This: Fulmer SPICES Fulmer SPICES is a framework for assessing older adults. This assessment, done regularly, can lead to the prevention and treatment of common conditions. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2007
Nancy A. Stotts |
How to Try This: Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk An assessment tool to predict the risk of pressure ulcers in the elderly. |
American Journal of Nursing
January 2008
Maslow & Mezey |
Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults Recognition of Dementia in Hospitalized Older Adults proposes several approaches that hospital nurses can use to increase recognition of dementia. This article describes the Try This approaches, how to implement them, and how to incorporate them into a hospital's current admission procedures. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2008
Evans & Cotter |
Avoiding Restraints in Patients with Dementia Understanding, prevention, and management are the keys to reducing restraint use. |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2008
Carole A. Smyth |
Evaluating Sleep Quality in Older Adults: The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index can be used to detect sleep disturbances or deficits. Get more information on why it's important for nurses to screen older patients for sleep difficulties, as well as why the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index is the right tool for the job. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2011 |
Supporting Family Caregivers: Teaching Essential Skills to Family Caregivers Nurses can use 'teachable moments' to help the transition from hospital to home care. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2007
Ann Hendrich |
How to Try This: Predicting Patient Falls Assess a hospitalized patients risk of falling using this screening tool. |
American Journal of Nursing
December 2008 |
Screening Older Adults for Executive Dysfunction The detection of executive dysfunction is essential to helping a patient remain as safe and independent as possible. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2011
Christine L. Cutugno |
The 'Graying' of Trauma Care: Addressing Traumatic Injury in Older Adults Evidence-based strategies for managing trauma and its complications in this population. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2011
Jablonski et al. |
The Use of Algorithms in Assessing and Managing Persistent Pain in Older Adults This article introduces readers to the use of algorithms in guiding the assessment and management of persistent pain in older adults, and provides an illustrative case study. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2008
Horgas & Miller |
Pain Assessment in People with Dementia The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale has been designed to assess pain in this population by looking at five specific indicators. |
American Journal of Nursing
February 2009
Janet K. Specht |
Assessment of Transient Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults Many caregivers erroneously consider urinary incontinence to be inevitable in older adults. Failure to identify and respond to transient urinary incontinence may lead to established incontinence and to other poor outcomes. |
American Journal of Nursing
September 2008
Messecar et al. |
The Family Preferences Index: Helping Family Members Who Want to Participate in the Care of a Hospitalized Older Adult. Researcher Hong Li developed the FPRI in 2000 after analysis of in-depth interviews with patients, families, and nurses and many hours of observing hospitalized older adults and their family caregivers. |
American Journal of Nursing
June 2008
Ellen Flaherty |
How to Try This: Using Pain-Rating Scales with Older Adults Pain is often undertreated and underdiagnosed in older adults. Regular use of short, simple, reliable pain-rating scales provides nurses and physicians with measurable information to establish and modify a pain management plan. |
Nursing
August 2011
Collins & Claros |
Recognizing the face of dehydration Monitoring your patients' fluid status can prevent dehydration-a potentially fatal condition-and its complications. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2008 |
Wandering in Hospitalized Older Adults: Identifying Risk is the First Step in This Approach to Preventing Wandering in Patients with Dementia. People who have dementia are at risk for wandering away from the safety of the care setting and becoming lost in the community. Here are three critical elements of prevention and action. |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2008
Hyer & Brown |
The Impact of Event Scale-- Revised: A Quick Measure of a Patient's Response to Trauma The Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) provides a structured way for a patient to communicate distress when she or he may not have the words to do so. |
Nursing
March 2010
Peg Gray-Vickrey |
Gathering pearls of knowledge for assessing older adults If you attended nursing school more than 10 years ago, you may have received limited education about gerontological nursing. But as baby boomers age, this is becoming an increasingly important area of nursing practice. |
Nursing
August 2010
Bartley & Shiflett |
Handle older trauma patients with care Your comprehensive understanding of how age-related changes can affect outcomes during and after trauma will help your patients recover to the fullest extent possible. |
Nursing
October 2009
Yvonne D'Arcy |
Overturning barriers to pain relief in older adults This article will describe how to lower the barriers to effective pain control in older patients and provide practical tips for helping them receive the full benefit from pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. |
Nursing
April 2012
Elliott et al. |
Managing alcohol withdrawal in hospitalized patients A focused nursing assessment is critical in identifying the potential for alcohol withdrawal symptoms in all hospitalized patients. This article discusses how to assess patients at risk and how to use these assessment findings as a basis for nursing interventions. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2004
Robertson & Montagnini |
Geriatric Failure to Thrive Some elderly patients, including those who do not have acute illness or severe chronic disease, eventually undergo a process of functional decline, progressive apathy, and a loss of willingness to eat and drink that culminates in death. |
American Journal of Nursing
December 2010
Baldridge & Andrasek |
Pain Assessment in People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Nurses in all settings need to be knowledgeable about alternate pain assessment methods. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2005
Shobha S. Rao |
Prevention of Falls in Older Patients Physicians caring for older patients should ask about any falls that have occurred in the past year. Assessment should include evaluating the circumstances of the fall and a complete history and physical examination, looking for potential risk factors. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2011
Brodkey et al. |
Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis Improvements in magnetic resonance imaging and the advent of disease-modifying therapies in the past 15 years have changed the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2008
Madeline A. Naegle |
Screening for Alcohol Use and Misuse in Older Adults: Using the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test--Geriatric Version The availability of accurate, easy-to-use screening tools to detect people in need of counseling can increase the number of older adults whose lives can be improved and even lengthened. |
Nursing
August 2011
Sandra C. Voda |
Bad breaks: A nurse's guide to distal radius fractures The most common upper extremity fracture, distal radius fracture accounts for an estimated 17% of fractures treated in the United States emergency departments and 16% of all fractures treated by orthopedic surgeons. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2010
Mary Curry Narayan |
Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain. |
American Journal of Nursing
September 2011
Schmid et al. |
Care of the Suicidal Pediatric Patient in the ED: A Case Study At Childrens Hospital Boston, an algorithm-the Risk of Suicidality Clinical Practice Algorithm has been developed to ensure evidence-based care supported by best practice guidelines. |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2008 |
Why Screen For Sleep Problems in Older Patients? Sleep disturbances or deprivation or both have been linked with a range of negative outcomes. |
Nursing Management
March 2010
Becker & Schmidtke |
All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals. |
Nursing Management
December 2010
Raso & Gulinello |
Creating Cultures of Safety: Risk Management Challenges and Strategies The role of the nurse manager in directing patient care and influencing change from a risk perspective is paramount to success. |
American Journal of Nursing
December 2011
Mary K. Walton |
Supporting Family Caregivers: Communicating with Family Caregivers A transformation is under way in acute care, at least in the United States, from provider-centered care to patient- and family-centered care. |
American Journal of Nursing
January 2010 |
Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time. |
Nurse Practitioner
August 2011
Davis et al. |
Supportive approaches for Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer disease accounts for almost 80% of all dementia diagnoses. Currently, more than 5 million Americans suffer from this debilitating illness, with the highest prevalence in the oldest age groups. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2006
Marjorie Cook McCullagh |
Home Modification Nurses can be involved by assessing patients' living quarters and recommending specific modifications. |
Nursing
February 2012
Duncan et al. |
Early warning systems: The next level of rapid response Cardiac arrests in hospitals are usually preceded by observable signs of deterioration, which often appear 6 to 8 hours before the arrest occurs. |
Nursing
April 2011
Sally Austin |
Stay Out of Court with Proper Documentation Here is a practical guideline to help you document your assessments and interventions completely, accurately, and concisely. Doing so not only improves patient care, but also shields you from legal fallout if something goes wrong. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2012
Smeltzer et al. |
Original Research: Interactions of People with Disabilities and Nursing Staff During Hospitalization Inadequate primary health care and screening have been identified as serious issues for people with disabilities, but little evidence exists on the nursing care of this population when hospitalized. |
Nurse Practitioner
December 2011 |
Managing pain in obese patients Obesity-related pain conditions can limit the patient's efforts at increasing activity and limit quality of life. This article will offer information on these conditions and treatment options. |
Nursing
March 2009
Kate J. Morse |
Focusing on the Surgical Patient with Cardiac Problems Learn about the latest guidelines for assessing cardiac risk and protecting his heart during noncardiac surgery. |
Nursing
June 2008
Yvonne D'arcy |
Nursing2008 Pain Management Survey Report See how your responses to this survey compare with those of nursing colleagues across the country and beyond. |
Nursing Management
March 2012
Yvonne D'Arcy |
Pain and obesity It can be a challenge to provide effective pain management for obese patients; however, a multimodal pain management regimen that combines medications and complementary techniques can help increase pain relief. |
Nurse Practitioner
May 2009
Yvonne D'Arcy |
Is Low Back Pain Getting on Your Nerves? The pain and disability of low back pain are the most common reasons patients seek healthcare. Here are tools for diagnosis and treatment options. |
Nursing Management
September 2011
Sally Austin |
What does EMTALA mean for you? When a patient enters your hospital, do you know what your obligations are under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act? |
Nursing
June 2010
Daniel A. Hussar |
New drugs 2010, part 2 In this article, you'll learn about 14 recently marketed new drugs. |
