Namaste Care is a programme developed in the United States to offer meaningful activities to care home residents with advanced dementia. The programme focuses on calming and soothing residents using sound, touch, smell and taste. These sensory techniques are delivered daily in a dedicated communal space. Christian Duffin visits a care home in Kent that has adopted the Namaste principles and talks to staff about the effect they have had on enabling residents to feel comforted and cared for. He also speaks to nurse consultant Jo Hockley who is leading a pilot study of the Namaste programme. Anecdotal evidence from the pilot suggests that staff involved in its delivery work better as a team, which means they provide better care to residents.
Healthcare professionals are always seeking ways to improve their relationships with patients and, to this end, some senior hospital staff in the United States have asked a group of circus clowns to teach nurses how to introduce a sense of levity into hospital wards. This article is a review of the results.
Increase in nurse numbers linked to better patient survival rates in ICU By Christian Du n Higher numbers of nurses per bed are associated with better survival rates among patients in intensive careand the benefits are at their greatest among the very seriously illresearch suggests. A team of UK researchers concluded that seven extra lives would be saved for every 100 patients at relatively high risk of death if nurse numbers increased from four to six per bed. Among patients with mid-range relative severity of illness, about four extra lives per 100 would be saved. The researchers say that the reason survival rates improve with higher
We numerically study a particle in a box with moving walls. In the case where the walls are oscillating sinusoidally with small amplitude, we show that states up to the fourth state can be populated with more than 80 percent population, while higher-lying states can also be selectively excited. This work introduces a way of controlling quantum systems which does not rely on (dipole) selection rules.
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