Reader's Choice
Your suggestions for future content
Pauline Hill
University of South Australia, Adelaide SA
PP: 091 - 091
Article Text
Impact of an ageing population
As we all know, the number of people over 65 in Australia is rapidly growing. Consequently, the average age of the acute care client has increased and there are more 'old-old' (over 75 years of age) adults than ever before. I would like to read articles about the impact of this change for clinicians and how the delivery of care has been altered to accommodate their unique needs.
Pauline Hill
Methods of patient allocation
As a nursing student, I have undertaken acute care clinical practice in a variety of hospitals. As a result of my experiences, I have worked with several different methods of distributing work-loads amongst registered and enrolled nurses. Some of these methods included primary nursing, a mix of patients of high and low dependence, and non-allocation of specific patients. I found each way of distributing work to offer advantages and disadvantages which was often dependent on the ward's focus. I would like to read a report based on a study relating to patient allocation.
Lynette March
Effects of care on biorhythms
I have been recently caring for patients who are comatose due to head injuries. These people often required 24-hour care including 2 hourly tracheal suction which is often traumatic for them. I am concerned about the effects this may have on the patients' biorhythms and their subsequent rate of recovery. Staff in many Intensive Care Units are aware of the effect of interrupting a person's biorhythms and take steps to create day and night. I would like to read about a comparative study examining the benefits of continuing prophylactic care such as 2 hourly tracheal suction, with that of a needs only basis.
Roger Fox
eContent Home
