The phrase "acute environment" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could potentially be used in a specific context related to a critical or intense situation, but it is not standard terminology.
Example: "In an acute environment, the team had to make quick decisions to address the emerging crisis."
Alternatives: "critical environment" or "intense situation".
Older people can drop like a stone in an acute environment.
There was acknowledgement that hypoactive delirium resulting in withdrawn, lethargic behaviour could easily be overlooked in an acute environment.
Such information is essential if questions regarding the appropriate timing of self-management are to be addressed [ 35] alongside the development of effective strategies within the acute environment.
Many of the nurse incidents did not fit the specified criteria probably due to the difficulty of knowing the outcomes of care in an acute environment.
A high proportion of patients were discharged to their own residence from the acute hospital, suggesting that rehabilitation is occurring primarily in the acute environment and/or that patients are discharged with significant ongoing rehabilitation requirements.
This raises the question of whether nurses in the acute environment should be addressing spiritual issues if they will be unable to see this through due to time constraints and additional priorities such as responding to the physical effects of cancer on patients.
For Paula, "I had to use my position as a CEO of a large healthcare system to navigate a very complex post-acute environment," Terry says.
Few clients have used it in the acute care environment.
This study aimed to explore perceptions, attitudes, and self-reported behavior towards patient hand hygiene among clinical ward nurses within an acute hospital environment.
In this paper, we critically reflect on a project that seeks, two decades after the closure of the last major institution in New Zealand, to investigate the acute care environment with an emphasis on its capacity for healing.
We have recently shown that IL-12 triggers an acute inflammatory environment that reverses dysfunctional antigen presentation by myeloid-derived cells within tumors and leads to an increase in the infiltration of adoptively transferred antigen-specific CD8+ T cells.
