In our society of high life-expectancy, death usually comes unseen behind the closed doors of nursing homes, or the curtains of a hospital room.
To determine the cost and resource consumption generated by types of outbreaks we analyzed outbreaks in closed institutions (hospitals, nursing homes and social health centers) and community outbreaks.
Nursing is a metaphor for intimacy.... Nurses do for others publicly what healthy persons do for themselves behind closed doors.... Nurses are treasured when these interchanges are successful, but most often people do not wish to remember their vulnerability or loss of control, and nurses are indelibly identified with those terribly personal times.
A literature study was performed, followed by a survey with open and closed questions for nurses working in the adult ICU.
The baby is nursing with closed eyes, I lay him down as my own eyes start creaking closed and my mind starts to wander.
Persons living or working in closed settings, such as nursing homes, prisons, hospitals, or daycare centers, are at elevated risk of infectious gastrointestinal illness (IGI) [ 1, 2].
Within closed settings such as nursing homes, large outbreaks of influenza and its subsequent complications, including severe pneumonia, may rapidly evolve and lead to significant morbidity and mortality [ 10, 14].
For neonates nursed in closed incubators, providing an optimal thermal environment (currently defined as thermoneutrality) is a priority not only for survival and growth but also for the stability of various physiological functions.
A small number of closed questions asked about nurses' views of working for this new service, and respondents used the general open question to expand in considerable detail on this issue [ 8].
The target population consisted of physicians and nurses, working in closed format, mixed medical and surgical, tertiary care ICUs of three participating hospitals, including two academic and one large teaching hospital in the Netherlands.
