Nursing Assessment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A closer look at hand and wrist complaints. 
  • A necessity not a luxury: preparing advanced practice nurses to care for older adults. 
  • A nursing center for ambulatory well, older adults. 
  • A prospective study of ED pain management practices and the patient's perspective. 
  • A randomized evaluation of bispectral index-augmented sedation assessment in neurological patients. 
  • Accuracy of the Emergency Severity Index triage instrument for identifying elder emergency department patients receiving an immediate life-saving intervention. 
  • Adaptation and testing of instruments to measure diabetes self-management in people with type 2 diabetes in mainland China. 
  • Allevyn adhesive. 
  • Anemia and its impact on function in nursing home residents: what do we know? 
  • Anemia evaluation and management in nursing home residents. 
  • Bedside computerization of the ICU, design issues: benefits of computerization versus ease of paper & pen. 
  • Caring for patients with chronic heart failure: The trajectory model. 
  • Child abuse: a multidimensional phenomenon. 
  • Childhood sexual abuse in men who have sex with men: the current state of the science. 
  • Combining SOAP Notes With Guided Reflection to Address Implicit Bias in Health Care. 
  • Comparison Study of Braden Scale and Time-to-Erythema Measures in Long-term Care. 
  • Congenital cutaneous candidiasis: a case presentation. 
  • Consciousness, coma, and caring for the brain-injured patient. 
  • Delirium monitoring and patient outcomes in a general intensive care unit. 
  • Developing a research program on fatigue in children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer. 
  • Development of behaviors in preterm infants: relation to sleeping and waking. 
  • Development of the Child Health Indicator Assessment (CHIA) in a community-based nurse-managed center. 
  • Development of two instruments examining stress and adjustment in children with cancer. 
  • Diarrhea. 
  • Diarrhea: applying research to bedside practice. 
  • Differentiating between pain and agitation in premature neonates 
  • Distress in patients with acute leukemia: a concept analysis. 
  • Do nursing diagnoses affect functional status? 
  • Does this patient meet the criteria for Emergency Severity Index level 2? 
  • Effectiveness of an Advanced Practice Nurse-Led Preoperative Telephone Assessment. 
  • Evaluating cost-effectiveness of preevaluation client contacts. 
  • Evaluation of the Nursing Culture Assessment Tool for Pressure Injury Prevention: A Mixed-methods Study. 
  • Exploration of specialty certification for nurse anesthetists: nonsurgical pain management as a test case. 
  • Exploring the impact of augmenting sedation assessment with physiologic monitors. 
  • Fall prevention through patient partnerships. 
  • GAPNA Consensus Statement on Proficiencies for the APRN Gerontological Specialist: Proficiency Statement 6. 
  • Global infections: recognition, management, and prevention. 
  • Growth patterns and gastrointestinal symptoms in pediatric patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • I look funny and I feel bad. Measurement of symptom distress. 
  • Implementation and refinement of the emergency severity index. 
  • Implementing practice guidelines and education to improve care of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome. 
  • Implementing the Emergency Severity Index Triage System in Jamaican Accident and Emergency Departments. 
  • Improving the detection of pressure ulcers using the TMI ImageMed system. 
  • In-home assessment of dementia by nurses: experience using the CERAD evaluations. Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • Incorporating a built environment module into an accelerated second-degree community health nursing course. 
  • Increased risk for patient safety incidents in hospitalized older adults. 
  • Induced hypothermia for neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. 
  • Influences on nurses' management of pain in children 
  • Intensity, location, and quality of pain in Spanish-speaking children with cancer. 
  • Inter-disciplinary focus groups on telephone medicine: a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Interrater reliability of the bedside shivering assessment scale. 
  • Living on the edge: the current phenomenon of self-mutilation in adolescents. 
  • Maintaining the artificial airway: current concepts. 
  • Measurement of pain: self-report strategies 
  • Natural history of change in physical function among long-stay nursing home residents. 
  • Nurse administered telephone intervention for blood pressure control: a patient-tailored multifactorial intervention. 
  • Nurse perception of Bispectral Index monitoring as an adjunct to sedation scale assessment in the critically ill paediatric patient. 
  • Nurse-monitored cardiac recovery: a description of the first 8 weeks. 
  • Nurses' knowledge of child abuse and nurses' attitudes toward parental participation in the abused child's care. 
  • Nursing assessment of guaiac-positive and occult blood in preterm infant stools. 
  • Nursing care of children of battered women. 
  • Nursing care of the premature infant with severe combined immunodeficiency disease. 
  • Nutrition assessment of the critically ill adult. 
  • Nutritional support in the critically ill elderly patient. 
  • Olfactory and gustatory sensory changes to tobacco smoke in pregnant smokers. 
  • Optimal body temperature in transitional extremely low birth weight infants using heart rate and temperature as indicators. 
  • Pain diaries. For providers, nuanced data; for patients, a sense of control. 
  • Paying attention: A leap toward quality care. 
  • Pediatric triage: a review of emergency education literature. 
  • Pre-participation physical evaluations for athletes. 
  • Providing support to IPV victims in the emergency department: vignette-based interviews with IPV survivors and emergency department nurses. 
  • Psychometric and clinical assessment of the 13-item reduced version of the fatigue scale-adolescent instrument. 
  • Re-evaluating triage in the new millennium: A comprehensive look at the need for standardization and quality. 
  • Real-time application of continuous 12-lead ST-segment monitoring: 3 case studies. 
  • Recognizing pain as a component of the primary assessment: adding D for discomfort to the ABCs. 
  • Relationship between coping and depression in heart transplant candidates and their spouses. 
  • Reliability and validity of scores on The Emergency Severity Index version 3. 
  • Research coordinators' experiences with scientific misconduct and research integrity 
  • Retinopathy of prematurity: the disease process, classifications, screening, treatment, and outcomes. 
  • Short written assignments for clinical nursing courses. 
  • Stem cell use in a patient with an ischemic foot ulcer: a case study. 
  • Strategy to assess, develop, and evaluate critical thinking. 
  • Teaching cardiovascular assessment. 
  • Telephone protocols for pediatric assessment and advice 
  • The "other" intensive care unit. 
  • The Emergency Severity Index Version 4: changes to ESI level 1 and pediatric fever criteria. 
  • The National League for Nursing Project to Explore the Use of Simulation for High-Stakes Assessment: Process, Outcomes, and Recommendations. 
  • The Take Control of Your Blood pressure (TCYB) study: study design and methodology. 
  • The assessment of acute confusion as part of nursing care. 
  • The assessment of discomfort in elderly confused patients: a preliminary study. 
  • The impact of anemia on nursing home residents. 
  • The impact of bispectral index monitoring on rates of propofol administration. 
  • The use of the Minimum Data Set to identify depression in the elderly. 
  • Thermoregulation and heat loss prevention after birth and during neonatal intensive-care unit stabilization of extremely low-birthweight infants. 
  • Thyroid hormone levels in term and preterm neonates. 
  • Toilet training for the child with chronic illness. 
  • Toward Solving the Sedation-Assessment Conundrum: Neurofunction Monitoring. 
  • Toward solving the sedation-assessment conundrum: bi-spectral index monitoring and sedation interruption. 
  • Treatment outcomes of necrotizing enterocolitis for preterm infants. 
  • Triage: how long does it take? how long should it take? 
  • Undiagnosed hypertension in the ED setting--an unrecognized opportunity by emergency nurses. 
  • Use of an electronic patient-reported outcome measurement system to improve distress management in oncology. 
  • Using a modified nominal group technique to elicit director of nursing input for an osteoporosis intervention. 
  • Using diversional activity to enhance coping. 
  • Variations in pain, sleep, and activity during hospitalization in children with cancer. 
  • Working with the family of a critically ill child 
  • [Pain in reports. A fragmented mosaic]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Olsen, Maren Karine, Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics