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Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | Volume 2
J Intensive Crit Care Nurs, Volume 2
October 24-25, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland
2nd European
Nursing Congress
International Conference on
Clinical Nursing & Practice
Joint Event
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Aging is a complex process that globally affects the
functionality of the whole body. Frail syndrome (frailty)
is a special biological condition characterized by rapid
weakening and exhaustion of the body. The frailty syndrome,
often associated with getting older, may lead to partial or
total loss of functional autonomy. With aging, this condition
occurs naturally, but the elderly patients are most exposed
to the risk of becoming frail. Along with frail condition
new diseases or significant complications could occur in a
short period of time. Therefore, the frailty assessment is a
necessary condition that should take into consideration all
affected dimensions. The impairment of the functional status
in hospitalized geriatric patients is a first sign of frailty. In
order to prevent long-term functional and cognitive decline
a global evaluation and monitoring during hospitalization are
necessary, as well as designing and implementing targeted
therapeutic interventions after discharging. The assessment
of functional status is part of the comprehensive evaluation
of the geriatric patient and is considered an useful indicator
for the progressively worse condition of the health. For the
pre-frail and frail geriatric patients, it is important to anticipate
the occurrence of deficits in order to limit their action on the
autonomy’s degree of the individual after hospitalization.
The assessment of the functional status can be assumed
by the nurses, as one of the autonomous interventions
that define the profile of the nurse in the geriatric ward.
Speaker Biography
Hiriscau E I is an assistant professor, Nursing department at the University
of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She
also works as clinical psychologist in ICU. She has expertise in psychological
evaluations, competences in clinical ethics and research ethics (she was
granted a three year postdoctoral research in Basel, Switzerland) and she
is actively involved in nursing research projects , .
She conducted the process of translation and cultural adaptation of the
CAM-ICU Manual training in Romanian language under the supervision of
Prof. Dr. Wesley Ely and his team from Vanderbilt University, USA. She also
developed and implemented the CAM-ICU Comprehensive Assessment
Sheet for monitoring the ICU patients identified with delirium.
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Hiriscau E I
University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, Romania
Psychiatric Hospitals of the University Basel , Switzerland
The global assessment of the frail syndrome in the geriatric unit: The Nursing
Perspective
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