Portugal has one of the highest MRSA infection and colonization rates in Europe, so it becomes critical to identify MRSA colonized patients at hospital admission on the Emergency Room (ER), before placement into wards, preventing the mixing of colonized patients with non-colonized ones.
Had the government taken the time to learn the status quo, they would know that student nurses already spend half their time on clinical placements on wards and in the community, learning how to deliver fundamental care.
In my country I do my Master's, I still need to do the placement in hospice ward, I learn it, and my supervisor had to go to the hospice ward to supervise me and discuss meeting about my case study.
Weighed down with written coursework assignments on top of working shifts from 7.30am to 8.30pm on his ward placement, seeing the stage performance seemed to lift his morale.
As a student nurse on my first acute ward placement, I knew I wouldn't be able to avoid the experience, yet I still felt so unprepared.
Hospital encounters, or points of encounter refer to specific points on the patient's journey through a hospitalisation, such as admission, diagnostic testing, placement on a ward, and discharge.
In our model, students from the same educational level were paired together by the clinical teachers, based on the criteria that they had a clinical placement at a ward that was part of the project.
EEQA is a tool that detects the vast majority of PT patients, allowing early and adequate isolation procedures (respirator use, adequate ER and ward placement), starting on the ER, even before micro confirmation.
The need for research to identify and investigate care at specific points of encounter across a hospital journey (such as admission, diagnostic testing, placement on a ward, and discharge) as well as to include people with a diversity of disabilities is discussed in terms of potential to influence policy and practice across health and disability sectors.
The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of postpartum levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) placement on the postpartum ward.
