The issue of nursing documentation and care planning has been discussed in numerous articles, revealing barriers and few facilitators in nursing practice. Few of these articles are scientifically researched and they are often based on small samples. This study aimed to illuminate the factors that Registered Nurses (RNs) in acute care perceived as prerequisites and consequences relevant to their documentation of nursing care when using the VIPS model (VIPS is an acronym formed from the Swedish words for Well-being, Integrity, Prevention and Security). In total 377 RNs divided into two groups (Groups A and B) completed a questionnaire concerning opinions about nursing documentation. Both groups had received a 3-day course on nursing documentation based on the VIPS model. Group A had also participated in a 2-year comprehensive intervention programme. The findings showed that most participants, regardless of group, perceived nursing documentation to be beneficial to them in their daily practice and to increase patient safety, and that use of the VIPS model facilitated documentation of nursing care. The inhibitors, facilitators and consequences of nursing documentation identified here should help both RNs in practice and their leaders to be more attentive to the prerequisites needed to achieve satisfactory nursing documentation in patient records.
Previous studies have shown that the relationship between gastrointestinal symptoms and gastric emptying is weak. Therefore the quantitative assessment of gastric emptying with a relatively simple, non-invasive test would be of considerable clinical value in insulin-treated diabetic patients to identify those with disturbed gastric emptying. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the inter- and intra-subject variability of a paracetamol-pasta test in healthy subjects and in IDDM patients. Eighteen healthy subjects (8 women) with a mean age of 37 years (range 19-68) and 19 IDDM patients (10 women) with a mean age of 48 years (range 25-62) and mean duration of diabetes of 28 years (range 6-52) were studied on two occasions with an interval of 1 to 4 weeks. After an overnight fast the subjects ingested a standardized pasta meal mixed with 2 g paracetamol in a period of 15 min. Blood samples were drawn at regular intervals after meal intake and analysed for paracetamol (P) and blood glucose. The serum levels of P were significantly lower at 15 min in diabetic patients. The intra-subject coefficients of variation (CV%) of the areas under the serum paracetamol concentration-time curve (AUC) were almost identical in healthy and diabetic subjects, while the intra-subject CV of the P-Tmax was considerably lower in diabetic patients as well as markedly lower than the corresponding inter-subject CV. The inter-subject CVs of all parameters calculated were generally higher in diabetic patients. This study indicates that the assessment of paracetamol absorption kinetics during a paracetamol-pasta test is reproducible in healthy as well as in diabetic subjects. Diabetic patients with non-optimal glucose control and without a case history indicating gastroduodenal motor function disturbances achieve lower serum concentration of P at 15 min and generally display a higher inter-individual variability indicative of subclinical disturbances of gastric emptying in this group of patients.
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