Why Mental Status Standards are Recommended on Medical Surgical Units in Hospitals?
Journal Title: Journal of Hospital & Medical Management - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Knowing, demonstrating, and assessing are often guided by standards of performance in nursing care. Identification by questions found from research findings and nurse’s experience can contribute and suggest new standards with an aim to promote best practice performance [1]. A recent double blinded randomized control research study demonstrated that altered mental status (AMS) is inconsistently measured by hospital registered nurses (RNs) [2]. This discovery demonstrated that nurses caring for patients on medical surgical units had misconceived the patient’s cognitive function, by asserting patients were cognitively eligible for decision making. Thus, referring and recommending to the investigator to consider their patient for study participation. Although, when the researcher performed a cognitive screening using the mini-mental state examination (MMSE), a standard tool, findings indicated 26.47% of these patients failed the MMSE [3].
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Angela P Halpin, Hodge FS
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