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What Bed Size Does a Patient Need? The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Space Required to Turn in Bed

 What Bed Size Does a Patient Need? The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Space Required to Turn in Bed Wiggermann, Neal; Smith, Kathryn; Kampar, Dee Over one-third of the U.S. population is now obese with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 kg/m2 (Ogden, Carroll, Fryar, & Flegal, 2015). As the general population has increased in body size, so too has the hospital population. From 2006 to 2015, the mean patient weight in acute care increased from 80.5 to 83.7 kg (177.5–184.5 lbs; Vangilder, Lachenbruch, Algrim-Boyle, & Meyer, 2017). Over the same period, the mean BMI increased from 29.0 to 29.7 kg/m2 (Vangilder et al., 2017), which is very near the definition of obese. A particular challenge for caregivers is that, although the mean body weight of the population is increasing, the heaviest patients are increasing at an even faster rate. For example, in 2006, 2.5% of patients weighed more than 136 kg (300 lbs), compared with 4.0% in 2015 (unpublished data from Van...

The Importance of Nursing Research

The Importance of Nursing Research Martha S. Tingen, Ph.D., APRN, BC,  Professor , Anna H. Burnett, BSN, RN, Rachel B. Murchison, BSN, RN, and Haidong Zhu, Ph.D., MD,  Assistant Professor Nursing research has a tremendous influence on the current and future professional nursing practice, thus rendering it an essential component of the educational process. This article chronicles the learning experiences of two undergraduate nursing students who were provided with the opportunity to become team members in a study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. The application process, the various learning opportunities and responsibilities performed by the students, and the benefits and outcomes of the experience are described. The authors hope that by sharing their learning experiences, more students will be given similar opportunities using the strategies presented in this article. Nursing research is critical to the nursing profession and is necessary fo...

Scopes and importance

  Scopes and importance Nurse practitioners typically manage ceaseless and intense ailments, both in physical and mental terms, through extensively arranging data on a few patients' histories, leading physical tests, and requesting medicinal medications and symptomatic tests. Enlisted registered nurses that have explicitly prepared as family nurture experts. As a family specialist, a  Family Nurse  expert commonly works with patients during their whole life, leading assessments at whatever point fundamental, diagnosing ailments and conditions, and notwithstanding endorsing medicine in certain conditions. Albeit some specific states of the USA expect NPs to figure under a doctor's supervision, family nursing experts are step by step increasing more self-sufficiency, and in certain conditions are beginning to fill in because the sole doctor for his or her patients. Parts of  Nursing Specialists  include: Nurse Practitioner Nursing Education Clinical NP Cardiac NP ...

24th World Conference on Nursing care and Healthcare

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  24th World Conference on   Nursing care   and Healthcare, April 22-23, 2022 Tokyo, Japan Outstanding Nursing Innovations in   Health Care . The Nursing Conference, with on the point of many companies and over a decent number of attendees, will feature presentations from public and personal companies/Universities during a sort of sectors within the field of Nursing and Healthcare. This gathering of Nurses,  Doctors , Physicians, Clinicians,  Nurse Care Practitioners , Health Care Professionals,  Clinical Nurse Specialists , Nurse Managers/Supervisors, Professors, Research fellows, Directors, Deans, Post-graduates in Nursing Practices, Clinical Study Observers, Midwives, Nurse Leaders,  Nurse Entrepreneurs , Nursing Faculty,  Nursing Academicians , Students has become a must-attend event for anybody working within the sector of research especially in Nursing and  Healthcare . We believe that our conferences provide over not just facts an...