Journal of emergency nursing : JEN : official publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association
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Observational Study
Development, Diagnostic Sensitivity, and Prognostic Accuracy of the Adult-Difficult Venous Catheterization Scale for Emergency Departments.
Difficulty in accessing peripheral veins in emergency departments increases patients' discomfort and impedes their diagnosis. The objective of this study was to develop and test the prognostic accuracy of an easily applied scale to measure difficult venous access to peripheral veins in emergency departments, called the Adult-Difficult Venous Catheterization scale. ⋯ The Adult-Difficult Venous Catheterization scale is a valid and reliable instrument for predicting difficult venous access in emergency departments.
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Observational Study
An Assessment of Emergency Nurses' Perspectives on Nurse-Driven Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing in the Emergency Department.
Engaging emergency clinicians in universal human immunodeficiency virus screening is paramount to achieving goals of reengaging human immunodeficiency virus-positive persons into care, identifying new human immunodeficiency virus cases, and linking them to care. The study aim was to identify beliefs and barriers towards opt-out human immunodeficiency virus testing among emergency nurses. ⋯ Emergency nurses reported barriers that sometimes prevented application of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations to human immunodeficiency virus screening. Strategies to overcome these barriers are instrumental to programmatic success. Solutions can corroborate the importance of emergency nurses to the nation's Ending the HIV Epidemic plan.