A nomogram to predict in-hospital mortality of neonates admitted to the intensive care unit.

BACKGROUND: To explore the influencing factors for in-hospital mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and to establish a predictive nomogram. METHODS: Neonatal data were extracted from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III) database. Both univariate and multivariate logit binomial general linear models were used to analyse the factors influencing neonatal death. The area under the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve was used to assess the predictive model, which was visualized by a nomogram. RESULTS: A total of 1258 neonates from the NICU in the MIMIC-III database were eligible for the study, including 1194 surviving patients and 64 deaths. Multivariate analysis showed that red cell distribution width (RDW) (odds ratio [OR] 0.813, p=0.003) and total bilirubin (TBIL; OR 0.644, p<0.001) had protective effects on neonatal in-hospital death, while lymphocytes (OR 1.205, p=0.025), arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2; OR 1.294, p=0.016) and sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score (OR 1.483, p<0.001) were its independent risk factors. Based on this, the area under the curve of this predictive model was up to 0.865 (95% confidence interval 0.813 to 0.917), which was also confirmed by a nomogram. CONCLUSIONS: The nomogram constructed suggests that RDW, TBIL, lymphocytes, PaCO2 and SOFA score are all significant predictors for in-hospital mortality in the NICU.

The Effect of Staggered Shift Scheduling Mode on Nurses in the COVID-19 Isolation Ward- A Cross Sectional Study.

In order to explore the rational use of nursing resources in the epidemic situation of COVID-19, we optimized the shift arrangement in COVID-19 isolation area and constructed a reasonable nursing schedule under the condition of limited human resources. Seventy-eight nurses were arranged in COVID-19 isolation area to work for 1 week according to 3 different shifts: 4 + 4 h, 6 h and 6 h (overlapping by 1 h). Through the form of questionnaire, the comprehensive job satisfaction of 3 different models were compared, and the nursing quality and the consumption of protective equipment under 3 different modes were analyzed. The results showed that the comprehensive job satisfaction and nursing quality of nurses in 6 h (overlapping by 1 h) shift mode were better than those in other shift modes, and the consumption of protective equipment was lower.

Application of key risk index of core system management in controlling adverse events / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To research the effects of establishing core system key risk index in reducing adverse events. Methods Analyzed the causes of the 147 adverse events in 2014. Including the core system implementation of the reasons for the end of the adverse events caused, the data of fundamental reasons in adverse events and the high risk link that because nurses don′t practice the core system. In 2015, randomly checked the 29 nursing units, including 27 wards and emergency outpatient transfusion room, ICU. Contains the implement rates of the core system in transfusion treatment, day and night shifts, doctors′ advice and patients′ identification. In order to quarterly analysis the index and pertinently improve the results, assessors of quality administration council, head nurse in endemic area and attendant watch keeper are chosen to gather index data. Results After one year of management, the key aspects of the core system execution qualified rate has reached 95%, the check of the implementation of the system, the total pass rate compared with before had increased 6.94%, orders execution system implementation of a qualified rate had increased 9.33%, patient identification system implementation of qualified rate had increased 4.29%, the qualified rate of change of comparison the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). After the establishment of the core system key risk index management, the adverse events had decreased 11.06%(P < 0.05). Conclusion The establishment of the core system key risk index management can effectively improve the implement rates and reduce the nurse adverse events.

The present situation and prospect of emergency nurse training base in our country / 中国实用护理杂志

This article analyzed the entry qualification,organization system,teacher training selection standard,assessment methods,training materials and continuous authentication system about existing emergency nurse training base in our country.The study put forward that optimization of base training system and the organization scheme,establish and improve relevant laws system are the urgent problems in the training base of emergency nurses.