Factors Associated With Changes in Patient-Centered Care in Undergraduate Nursing Students.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine active listening, self-awareness, and empathy and how they relate to changes in patient-centered care (PCC) in undergraduate nursing students.

Background: PCC is associated with better patient outcomes, but the level of PCC has been found to be low in nursing students.

Method: This secondary analysis used baseline and follow-up data at two time points from 50 undergraduate nursing students.

Factors Associated With Nurses' Acceptance of the Electronic Intensive Care Unit.

Background: Telemedicine intensivist-led intensive care (electronic intensive care unit [eICU]) is recommended when on-site intensivist-led intensive care is not available. Although the effects of eICU on patient outcomes are comparable with bedside intensivist-led care, not all implementations of eICU are successful in improving patient outcomes. Therefore, the aims of this study were to (1) examine the associations of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, nurses' attitudes toward eICU, and intention to use and (2) determine which participant characteristics were associated with these four dependent variables.

Nicotine Dependence and Willingness to Quit Smoking in Vascular Surgery Patients.

Background: Smoking rates have declined; however, it remains the primary modifiable risk factor for vascular disease. While vascular surgeons often advise patients to quit, few provide assistance. We sought to understand patients' interest in quitting and determine factors that influence this willingness to quit.

Risk Factor Modification Behaviors of Practicing Vascular Surgeons.

Background: National smoking rates have declined; however, it remains the primary modifiable risk factor for nearly all vascular disease. While vascular surgeons have the availability to treat patients via medical or surgical/endovascular means, involvement in risk factor modification may be lacking. This study seeks to understand vascular surgeons' involvement in tobacco cessation and risk factor modification and to determine if practice variables had any effect on provision of these services to vascular surgery patients.

Preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting: refresh your knowledge of how to recognize and respond to this common complication.

For surgical patients, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the most undesired complications of anesthesia and surgery.

Emergency department-initiated tobacco dependence treatment.

Objective: To examine the feasibility of a fax referral program to increase enrollment in tobacco dependence treatment in emergency department (ED) patients.

Methods: The control group received quit advice and printed information; the intervention group also received a faxed referral that generated telephone contacts.

Results: Treatment enrollment was higher in the intervention group (13.

Training health care providers in the treatment of tobacco use and dependence: pre- and post-training results.

Rationale: Health care providers have an extended reach into the population of tobacco users. Increasing the number and variety of health care providers that deliver the evidence-based, brief interventions for tobacco use prescribed by the Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline is likely to result in more tobacco users exposed to evidence-based treatments and more successful quit attempts. Effective training is key to increasing provider performance and proficiency in this regard.

The postoperative care of the adult renal transplant recipient.

Advances in transplantation immunology management have contributed to more frequent transplants and better long-term graft survival. Nurses must consider many issues facing the transplant recipient such as medication management, infection prevention, chronic disease management, fluid balance, urine output, and the many psychological issues that surround receiving a transplant. Important guidelines of care of complex transplant patients in the postoperative period are provided.

A history of the PACU.

The specialized intense nursing care provided in the PACU is now well recognized as crucial to optimize outcomes for the patient undergoing modern anesthesia and surgical techniques. However, this fact has not always been recognized. Although anesthetic techniques have evolved since the mid-1800s, the widespread establishment of PACUs only began about 50 years ago, shortly after World War II.

The postanesthesia care of an adult renal transplant recipient.

Renal transplantation is the most common type of solid organ transplant performed in this country. For the PACU nurse, the immediate postoperative care of a renal transplant recipient can present a very unique and interesting challenge. Like all patients arriving to the PACU, the initial assessment of an immediate postoperative renal transplant recipient should first address the routine postsurgical concerns of airway, respiration, and hemodynamics.