ABSTRACT
Education after a liver transplant can be an overwhelming experience for transplant recipients. Clinical nurse specialist graduate students with the assistance of the liver transplant clinical nurse specialist at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center developed a multidisciplinary tool for documenting posttransplant education. By creating 1 central document in which all disciplines provide evidence of posttransplant education, all members of the healthcare team are afforded an efficient system for tracking progress in patients' education and for eliminating duplicative teaching.
Subject(s)
Liver Transplantation , Medical Records Systems, Computerized , Patient Care Team/organization & administration , Patient Education as Topic/organization & administration , Cooperative Behavior , Documentation , Health Plan Implementation , Hospitals, Veterans/organization & administration , Humans , Information Storage and Retrieval , Nurse Clinicians , Oregon , Patient Care Team/standards , Patient Education as Topic/standards , United States , United States Department of Veterans Affairs , User-Computer InterfaceSubject(s)
Delirium , Adult , Delirium/diagnosis , Delirium/etiology , Delirium/nursing , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
Despite every effort, 13% of patients with SAH still die or are permanently disabled as a consequence of vasospasm. Optimal outcome after aneurysmal SAH depends on careful assessment and management of patients throughout the course of hospitalization. Critical care nurses play a crucial role in this process. Efforts continue to understand the cascade of events that lead to cerebral vasospasm and to develop more effective treatments. Many therapies, both traditional and new, are being investigated to reduce the incidence of symptomatic vasospasm and improve the lives of patients who experience this devastating condition.
