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MeSH. D000067716. Point-of-care testing ( POCT ), also called near-patient testing or bedside testing, is defined as medical diagnostic testing at or near the point of care —that is, at the time and place of patient care. [1] [2] This contrasts with the historical pattern in which testing was wholly or mostly confined to the medical ...
Electronic documentation. Point of care (POC) documentation is the ability for clinicians to document clinical information while interacting with and delivering care to patients. [10] The increased adoption of electronic health records (EHR) in healthcare institutions and practices creates the need for electronic POC documentation through the ...
Policies and activities COVID-19 pandemic. California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
BLS: Basic Life Support ( not intended for postnominal use) BDLS: Basic Disaster Life Support. BCEN: Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing ( not intended for postnominal use) BM: Bachelor of Midwifery. BMTCN: Blood and Marrow Transplant Certified Nurse. BN: Bachelor of Nursing. BNSc: Bachelor of Nursing Science.
The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), known in French as the Association des infirmières et infirmiers du Canada (AIIC), is the national professional association representing registered nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed and registered practical nurses, registered psychiatric nurses and retired nurses across all 13 provinces and territories in Canada.
A nursing care plan provides direction on the type of nursing care the individual/family/community may need. [1] The main focus of a nursing care plan is to facilitate standardised, evidence-based and holistic care. [2] Nursing care plans have been used for quite a number of years for human purposes and are now also getting used in the ...
Multiplexed point-of-care testing (xPOCT) is a more complex form of point-of-care testing (POCT), or bedside testing. Point-of-care testing is designed to provide diagnostic tests at or near the time and place that the patient is admitted. POCT uses the concentrations of analytes to provide the user with information on the physiological state ...
Nursing Outcomes Classification. The Nursing Outcomes Classification ( NOC) is a classification system which describes patient outcomes sensitive to nursing intervention. The NOC is a system to evaluate the effects of nursing care as a part of the nursing process. The NOC contains 330 outcomes, and each with a label, a definition, and a set of ...