Implementation of a vascular access specialist team in a tertiary hospital: a cost-benefit analysis.

Background: The use of peripherally inserted central catheters and midline catheters is growing due to their potential benefits. These devices can increase patient safety and satisfaction while reducing the use of resources. As a result, many hospitals are establishing vascular access specialist teams staffed by nurses who are trained in the insertion and maintenance of these catheters.

Barriers and facilitators involved in standardised care plan individualisation process in acute hospitalisation wards: A grounded theory approach.

Objective: To identify and classify the barriers and facilitators of the individualisation process of the standardised care plan in hospitalisation wards.

Background: The administration of individualised care is one of the features of the nursing process. Care plans are the structured record of the diagnosis, planning and evaluation stages of the nursing process.

Individualization process of the standardized care plan in acute care hospitalization units: Study protocol.

Aim: To understand the individualization process of the standardized care plan (SCP) that nurses design for hospitalized patients.

Background: To apply the nursing process, it is advisable to use SCP to standardize the diagnosis, planning and evaluation stages. However, the fundamental element of this methodology is the individualization of the care plan.

Accuracy and completeness of records of adverse events through interface terminology.

Objective: To determine what adverse events, including pressure ulcers, infection of the surgical site and aspiration pneumonia, nurses record in clinical histories, in terms of diagnostic accuracy and completeness, through ATIC.

Method: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, multicenter study of 64 medical-surgical and semi-critical units of two university hospitals in Catalonia, Spain, during 2015. The diagnostic accuracy was assessed by means of the correspondence between the event declared in the Minimum Basic Data Set and the problem documented by the nurse.

Basic nursing care: retrospective evaluation of communication and psychosocial interventions documented by nurses in the acute care setting.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of psychosocial aspects of basic nursing care, as e-charted by nurses, when using an interface terminology.

Methods: An observational, multicentre study was conducted in acute wards. The main outcome measure was the frequency of use of the psychosocial interventions in the electronic nursing care plans, analysed over a 12 month retrospective review.