Nutritional screening, assessment and implementation strategies for adults in an Australian acute tertiary hospital: a best practice implementation report.

Objective: The project aimed to improve the effectiveness of nutritional screening and assessment practices through clinical audits and the implementation of evidence-based practice recommendations.

Introduction: In the absence of optimal nutrition, health may decline and potentially manifest as adverse health outcomes. In a hospitalized person, poor nutrition may adversely impact on the person's outcome.

Nursing clinical handover improvement practices among acute inpatients in a tertiary hospital in Sydney: a best practice implementation project.

Background: The nursing handover normally occurs at the beginning of a nurse's shift and is considered essential for continuity of care. Nursing handovers have the potential to communicate accurate information about a patient's condition, treatment and anticipated needs but also to be ineffective or even harmful if information is incomplete or omitted. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has recognized clinical handover as a National Standard, thus reinforcing its importance.

Intentional rounding: facilitators, benefits and barriers.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the implementation, practice and sustainability of Intentional Rounding (IR) within two diverse settings (aged care and maternity).

Background: The profile of patients in hospitals has changed over time, generally being more severe, placing heavy demands on nurses' time. Routine non-urgent care is often provided only when there is time.

Are you busy for the next 5 years? Recruitment in the Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS).

Objective: The process of recruitment into randomized controlled trials is not often reported. In the present paper, the methods used for recruitment into the Childhood Asthma Prevention Study are reported and the reasons why eligible subjects chose not to participate or withdrew from the trial are examined.

Methodology: Recruitment was conducted at the antenatal clinics of six hospitals in Sydney (NSW, Australia).