May 2016 – Page 2 – MFT Academy Library

The forgotten people in British public health: a national neglect of the dying, bereaved and caregivers. (BMJ supportive & palliative care, 2016, 6(2) pps. 153-159)

The clinical and social epidemiology of living with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, frail ageing, long-term caregiving, and grief and bereavement is well documented in the palliative care, psycho-oncology and psychiatric literature but this investigation asks what interest exists from the mainstream public health sector in these health and illness experiences. This paper reports a content analysis of 7 key British public health journals, 14 major public health textbooks and 3 public health websites employing key word and synonym searches to assess the size and quality of interest in populations related to ageing, dying, caregiving, and grief and bereavement. Compared with other public health issues, such as obesity and tobacco use, for examples, interest in the social experience and epidemiology of end-of-life experiences is extremely low. Reasons for this lack of interest are explored.

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Caregiver positive and negative appraisals: effects of the national alliance on mental illness family-to-family intervention. (Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 2016, 204(2) pps. 156-159)

The 3-month-long Family-to-Family intervention (FTF) has been shown to increase empowerment, knowledge, and coping and to reduce distress among caregivers of people with serious mental illness. We sought to determine the influence of FTF on caregivers’ appraisal of their caregiving experience.

Caring for carers: how community nurses can support carers of people with cancer. (British Journal of Community Nursing, 2016 21(4) pps. 180-184)

There are more than 1 million people in the UK looking after a family member or friend with cancer, but half the number of these carers do not receive support to care. Providing this care significantly affects cancer carers emotionally, physically, and financially. Community and district nurses have a vital role to play in reaching out to these hidden carers and signposting them to the correct support. This article provides tips on identifying carers, including who they are, the challenges they face, and how health professionals can approach and speak to them. It also provides guidance on signposting carers to national and local sources of support in the UK.

Caring for carers: how community nurses can support carers of people with cancer (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)

Factors affecting performance and productivity of nurses: professional attitude, organisational justice, organisational culture and mobbing. (Journal of Nursing Management, Mar 2016)

Aim: To identify relationships among variables affecting nurses’ performance and productivity, namely professional attitudes, organisational culture, organisational justice and exposure to mobbing.
Background: The determination of the factors affecting performance and productivity is important for providing efficient nursing services. These factors have been investigated in the literature independently, but the relationship among them has not been clearly identified.
Results: The professional attitude score of the nurses was high (4.35 ± 0.63). However, their organisational justice (2.22 ± 1.26) and organisational culture (2.47 ± 0.71) scores were low. Nurses were subjected to mobbing at a high level (0.82 ± 0.78). As the organisational justice increased, the organisational culture increased and the mobbing decreased. As the organisation culture decreased, the mobbing increased.
Conclusions: There was a positive correlation between organisation culture and organisational justice of the nurses and a negative correlation with mobbing.
Implications for nursing management: The results of the study are essential for improving nurses’ performance and productivity.

Factors affecting performance and productivity of nurses: professional attitude, organisational justice, organisational culture and mobbing. (Journal of Nursing Management, Mar 2016) (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)

Productivity still ‘not good enough’ says Carter review (Nursing Management Mar 2016)

Roadmap for hospitals calls for standardisation and transparency to ensure that trusts meet savings targets.
THE STARTING gun has been fired. After 18 months of work, Lord Carter’s roadmap for hospitals to achieve £5 billion a year of spending cuts has been published.

Carers of older adults’ satisfaction with public mental health service clinicians: a qualitative study. (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2016, 25(11/12) pps. 1634-1643)

The purpose of our paper was to explore primary caregivers’ experience of the way public mental health nurses and other mental health clinicians responded to them as primary carers of older adults with mental illness.

Carers of older adults’ satisfaction with public mental health service clinicians: a qualitative study (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)

Influence of teamwork behaviors on workplace incivility as it applies. (Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership. 2016 2(1)).

Workplace incivility, or bullying, experienced by nurses has been shown to have negative consequences
on nurses and the care they provide patients. Nurses’ roles are being challenged in the healthcare environment
because of incivility in the workplace. These negative outcomes exist despite the support provided by teams on
which these nurses work. This literature review is focused on the prevalence and effect of nurse bullying (nurseon-
nurse, as well as physician-on-nurse) and the influence of such incivility on healthcare teamwork. Specific
attention is given to three important team behaviors: leadership, trust, and communication.

Influence of teamwork behaviors on workplace incivility as it applies. (Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership. 2016 2(1)). (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library

Patients’ and carers’ experiences of UK memory services. (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2016, 31(6) pps. 676-680)

The objective of this study is to test the validity of an accreditation programme for memory services in the UK by investigating whether different levels of accreditation status (excellent compared with accredited) are reflected in patients’ and carers’ reported satisfaction.

Patients’ and carers’ experiences of UK memory services (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)

Family carers’ experiences of the Admiral Nursing Service: a quantitative analysis of carer feedback. (Aging & Mental Health, 2016, 20(7) pps. 669-675)

Family carers of people with dementia often experience difficulty in accessing information, services and adequate support. Admiral Nurses, registered nurses specialising in dementia, provide holistic and person-centred support to families living with dementia. This study assessed the effectiveness of the Admiral Nurses’ approach from the perspective of family carers who had accessed their service.

Effectiveness of a psychoeducational programme for informal caregivers of older adults. (Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2016, 30(1) pps. 65-73)

To report a multi-phase modified Delphi study conducted with carers and professionals to identify the priority areas for inclusion in an alert screening tool for carers providing support to someone dying at home.

Effectiveness of a psychoeducational programme for informal caregivers of older adults (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)