Use of sedating medications around nursing home admission in Denmark.

Purpose: To examine use of sedating medications around the time of nursing home admission in Denmark.

Methods: We conducted a register-based drug utilization study, describing patterns of commonly used medications with sedative effects leading up to and after nursing home admission using data from 94 Danish nursing homes between 2015 and 2017.

Results: We identified 5179 residents (median age 84 years, 63% female) and described monthly incidence and total use of benzodiazepines (BZDs), Z drugs, mirtazapine/mianserin, quetiapine, promethazine, and melatonin.

Pediatric in-hospital emergencies: real life experiences, previous training and the need for training among physicians and nurses.

Objective: Pediatric emergencies challenge professional teams by demanding substantial cognitive effort, skills and effective teamwork. Educational designs for team trainings must be aligned to the needs of participants in order to increase effectiveness. To assess these needs, a survey among physicians and nurses of a tertiary pediatric center in Germany was conducted, focusing on previous experience, previous training in emergency care, and individual training needs.

Effects of a computer-based nursing documentation system on the quality of nursing documentation.

Nursing documentation is an important part of clinical documentation. However, documentation of the nursing process is frequently lacking quality. There are high expectations that computer support in nursing documentation will help improve documentation quality.

[Effects of a computer-assisted system for nursing care documentation on quality and quantity of nursing care documentation].

The University Hospital in Heidelberg has been gathering experience with the computer based nursing documentationsystem PIK since 1998. Its introduction on four pilotwards was systematically evaluated in an intervention study, gaining data to acceptance issues as well as to the quality of nursing documentation, as the nursing process is often not documented in an appropriate manner. Data to quantity and quality of nursing documentation before and after the intervention was gathered by means of a quality checklist, which was developed on the basis of an intensive literature review.