Building and Maintaining Organizational Infrastructure to Attain Clinical Excellence.

Active maintenance of highly functional teams is critical to ensuring safe, efficient patient care in the non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) suite. In addition to developing collaborative relationships and patient care protocols, individual and team training is needed. For anesthesiologists, this training must begin during residency.

Incontinence-associated dermatitis in critically ill adults: time to development, severity, and risk factors.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the time to development, severity, and risk factors of incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD) among critically ill patients with fecal incontinence.

Subjects And Setting: Forty-five patients with a mean age of 49.4 ± 18.

What's new on defining diarrhea in tube-feeding studies?

Nurses who are involved in studies of tube feeding tolerance or who review the literature on this topic are confronted with a myriad of definitions and methods of reporting diarrhea. In a 1992 study, the authors reported that these definition differences influenced results. In a review of the current literature, they determined that little progress had been made toward standardizing definitions and reports of diarrhea in studies of tube feeding.