Assessing Competence With a Task Trainer: Validity Evidence for Novel Tracheostomy Care Skills Assessment Tool
Conclusions
We developed 3 essential tracheostomy skill checklists with multiple sources of validity evidence to support their use in a simulation-based assessment of tracheostomy skills. (Source: Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare)
Source: Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare - August 1, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Tags: Empirical Investigations Source Type: research
Improving Nursing Compliance with Prescribed Respiratory Therapy in the PACU: Incentive Spirometry, Cough and Deep Breathing
Major surgeries, anesthesia, and pain can hinder lung expansion, causing atelectasis, and pulmonary dysfunction in the postoperative period. Performing Incentive spirometry (IS), cough and deep breathing (C&DB) exercises are known to prevent postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs). This project addressed nursing compliance with prescribed incentive spirometry regimen in the postoperative period. (Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing)
Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - August 1, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Maria Saraceni, Jolanta Zabielska, Maria del Mar Rodriguez Source Type: research
A Pre-Pandemic Evaluation of the State of Staffing and Future of the Respiratory Care Profession: Perceptions of Louisiana Respiratory Therapists
CONCLUSIONS: This study indicated a consistent perception of understaffed work environments in respiratory care, and respondents expressed a perceived importance of remaining in the RT profession. This study also indicated support for raising the entry-level standard in RT and a desire for higher education to achieve professional growth and advancement.PMID:35728825 | DOI:10.4187/respcare.09894 (Source: Respiratory Care)
Source: Respiratory Care - June 21, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Jillian N Danzy Tim W Gilmore Stephen G Smith Lisa M Endee Dennis R Wissing Source Type: research
A Pre-Pandemic Evaluation of the State of Staffing and Future of the Respiratory Care Profession: Perceptions of Louisiana Respiratory Therapists
CONCLUSIONS: This study indicated a consistent perception of understaffed work environments in respiratory care, and respondents expressed a perceived importance of remaining in the RT profession. This study also indicated support for raising the entry-level standard in RT and a desire for higher education to achieve professional growth and advancement.PMID:35728825 | DOI:10.4187/respcare.09894 (Source: Respiratory Care)
Source: Respiratory Care - June 21, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Jillian N Danzy Tim W Gilmore Stephen G Smith Lisa M Endee Dennis R Wissing Source Type: research
Improving Students' Knowledge and Skills Through a Tele-ICU Clinical Rotation
CONCLUSIONS: Students' confidence in assessing patients via remote monitoring increased in a tele-ICU clinical rotation. Self-assessed knowledge related to COVID-19 also increased to statistical significance.PMID:35640997 | DOI:10.4187/respcare.09896 (Source: Respiratory Care)
Source: Respiratory Care - May 31, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Karsten J Roberts Karen K Zumstein Thomas R Lamphere Maria Williams Susan A Powell Alexa Moran Brian Kellar William R Solly Margarete Pierce Source Type: research
Chronic care for patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome after discharge from an intensive care unitCuidados prolongados de pacientes com s índrome pós-COVID-19 após internação em unidade de terapia intensiva
CONCLUSIONS: The chronic care program was an option for patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome recently discharged from an ICU, with a view to minimizing ICU occupation rates and facilitating patients' return to their homes.PMID:35620174 | PMC:PMC9128664 | DOI:10.26633/RPSP.2022.43 (Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health)
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - May 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Catherine Rojas C árdenas V íctor Eduardo Noguera Ramos Catalina Fl órez Jurado Jairo Leonardo P áez Prieto Mallerlyn Sanjuan Ganem Ra úl Ortiz Acevedo Andr és Felipe Zambrano Florez Katiuska Viveros Celin Source Type: research
Not Only Multimodal, but also Interdisciplinary: A Concept for Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Rehabilitation of Post-COVID Syndrome
This article describes a dual internal psychosomatic rehabilitation concept. The core elements are a behavioural therapy-oriented, disorder-specific psychotherapy group as well as exercise therapy that is adapted to the individual's capacity and slowly builds up. The goals are support in coping with the illness and an improvement in performance. Interventions based on ACT and the Avoidance Endurance Concept are used. In addition, respiratory therapy, cognitive training as well as nutritional and social counselling are offered on an indicative basis. The internal medicine team provides the patients with the security of bein...
Source: PPmP Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie - May 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexa Kupferschmitt Franziska Etzrodt Judit Kleinschmidt Volker K öllner Source Type: research
