Implementation results of the assessment and management of pain guideline within Best Practice Spotlight Organisations (BPSO®).

Aim: to analyse the progress of implementing the process recommendations of the RNAO Assessment and Management of Pain guideline and health outcomes.

Method: An observational, longitudinal, retrospective study conducted in 3tertiary-level hospitals in Spain. All patients discharged over the last 5 days of each month from the units selected in the implementation process were included.

[Care plan versus care protocol. Comparative analysis in patients subjected to cardiac catheterism].

The nursing product marks the present and future of the nursing staff. The tools used in the nursing staff should be complete and favor their work. The importance of the cares, during the stay of the patients in the intensive care units, is justified by the obtaining of results and some levels of quality that are adequate for the health care setting.

[Repercussion on the hemodynamic measurements across a Swan-Ganz catheter with the postural changes].

Aim: Usually hemodynamic measures are done with the patient in dorsal decubitus and the bedside at 0 degrees. Our aim has been to evaluate the influence that postural changes has in the hemodynamic measures which were carried out with a pulmonary artery catheter, so as called Swan-Ganz.

Material And Method: It's a prospective study.

[Nursing records: conventional versus computerized. Critical care unit].

In these recent years, electronic clinical data systems have been incorporated into the daily nursing work for the use of records in the hospitalization units. Between 2001 and 2002, the computer program that has presently become the work tool in the Critical Unit I was designed. This project aims to know the opinion of the nursing staff on the use of the computerized record versus the previous pen and paper.