Month: March 2018

This article discusses the use of Quest acuity and frailty measures for community nursing interventions to quantify and qualify the contributions of district nursing teams. It describes the use of a suite of acuity and frailty tools tested in 8 UK community service trusts over the past 5years. In addition, a competency assessment tool was used to gauge both capacity and capability of individual nurses. The consistency of the results obtained from the Quest audits offer significant evidence and potential for realigning community nursing services to offer improvements in efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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An introduction to the journal is presented in which the author discusses reports within the issue on topics including the decline in the number of district nurses in Great Britain as of 2018, managing psoriasis and identifying chronic oedema in patients.

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This study investigated any possible relationship between sleep disorders, burnout and job performance in a shift-work population of nurses. Results: On shift-work nurses’ sleep quality and burnout correlated positively. A significant negative association between patient-related burnout and job performance was observed. Conclusion: Specific characteristics of shift-work nurses can directly affect sleep quality and burnout and indirectly job performance. This evidence offers healthcare administrators opportunities to intervene with measures to promote nurse’s health, well-being and safety.

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The article reveals findings of a study on the effect of meaningful recognition programs on compassion fatigue. Discussion includes advantage of job satisfaction and job enjoyment in decreasing secondary traumatic stress; creation of Diseases Attacking the Immune System (DAISY), a foundation with an aim to honour the clinical skill and compassionate care of the nurses involved; and relationship between compassion fatigue and secondary trauma.

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This article looks at the role of therapeutic communication provides evidence that suggests that the development of therapeutic communication skills – although considered confronting at times – proved to be an innovative approach to overcoming burnout in critical care nurses and further, inspired personal and professional growth.

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This project explored the impact of improved delegation-communication between nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel on pressure injury rates, falls, patient satisfaction, and delegation practices. Findings revealed a tendency for nurses to delay the decision to delegate. However, nurses’ ability to explain performance appraisals, facilitate clearer communication, and seek feedback improved. Patient outcomes revealed decreased falls and improved patient satisfaction.

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The author reports on a study to improve the work force of Great Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). He focuses on the policies that affect nurses, particularly their education and retention, reductions in NHS expenditures, that have affected nursing staff, and what will need to be done to improve conditions.

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This article analyzes and applies the concept of value to explore how to maintain an adequate perioperative nursing workforce. It revealed that value co-creation for perioperative nursing could lead to newly graduated nurses increasingly choosing perioperative nursing as a career, and enjoying satisfying perioperative nursing careers while providing high-quality patient care.

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This article will explore how, with contrasting degrees of success, the nursing education systems in the United States and England have responded to these recommendations of recent Government reports and examine how different regulatory and funding structures have hindered or enabled these efforts.

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