Utilizing the Nursing Professional Development Model to create and sustain nursing education aimed at improving the care of patients with Parkinson's Disease in the hospital.

The Nurse Professional Development Model (NPD) has been utilized to improve quality of care for several conditions. Patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) are susceptible to higher risks while in the hospital. Educational efforts for this patient population are challenged by the small, disbursed number of patients as well as increased turn-over and reliance on temporary nursing staff.

Custom order entry for Parkinson's medications in the hospital improves timely administration: an analysis of over 31,000 medication doses.

Background: Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) are at increased risk for hospital acquired complications. Deviations from home medication schedules and delays in administration are major contributing factors. We had previously developed a protocol to ensure adherence to home medication schedules using "custom" ordering.

Development of a dosage strategy in patients receiving enoxaparin by continuous intravenous infusion using modelling and simulation.

Aim: To develop an appropriate dosing strategy for continuous intravenous infusions (CII) of enoxaparin by minimizing the percentage of steady-state anti-Xa concentration (C(ss)) outside the therapeutic range of 0.5-1.2 IU ml(-1).

Intensive insulin therapy for critically ill patients.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical outcomes of glycemic control of intensive insulin therapy and recommend its place in the management of critically ill patients.

Data Sources: Searches of MEDLINE (1966-March 2004) and Cochrane Library, as well as an extensive manual review of abstracts were performed using the key search terms hyperglycemia, insulin, intensive care unit, critically ill, outcomes, and guidelines and algorithms.

Study Selection And Data Extraction: All articles identified from the data sources were evaluated and deemed relevant if they included and assessed clinical outcomes.