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Urinary tract infection: under treated and investigated: an examination of the nursing management of urinary tract infections in nursing home residents experiencing impaired cognition
Author(s) -
Brown Sue,
Nay Rhonda
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of older people nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.707
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1748-3743
pISSN - 1748-3735
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-3743.2007.00049.x
Subject(s) - nursing , medicine , urinary system , cognition , qualitative research , nursing homes , psychiatry , social science , sociology
This research in nursing management of urinary tract infections in nursing home residents experiencing impaired cognition was informed through qualitative naturalistic enquiry. The findings suggest the response to this infective process lacks cohesive planning and the dearth of available evidence concerning the nursing management in this cohort has the potential to lead to detrimental health outcomes. The study exposes the complexities of issues which impact on satisfactory outcome.