Month: March 2018

Tainted love: Gothic imaging of nurses in popular culture. (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2018, 74(2) p. 310-317)

Nursing is stereotypically known as a caring profession. Caring in both the natural and professional perspectives is inextricably attached to love and love, we are told, is universal. We suggest this positioning illuminates a hidden reality that nursing work is at once intimate and personal but also hidden, profane, repellent, horrifying and feared. The Contemporary Gothic is a useful tool in exposing and exploring ambiguous, challenging and taboo aspects of nursing in society. Such and analysis helps to explain phenomena—including nursing itself—which exists in the shadow of dominant and often stereotyped discourses.

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Among nurses, how does education level impact professional values? A systematic review. (International Nursing Review, 2018, 65(1) p. 65-77)

Understanding how nurses identify, comprehend and apply their professional nursing values is an important step towards improving nursing practice and patient care quality. The aim of this systematic review was to determine how level of education affects professional nursing values of clinical practising nurses.

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Disaster preparedness among nurses: a systematic review of literature. (International nursing review, 2018, 65(1) p. 41-53)

This review explored peer-reviewed publications that measure nurses’ preparedness for disaster response. The increasing frequency of disasters worldwide necessitates nurses to adequately prepare to respond to disasters to mitigate the negative consequences of the event on the affected population. Despite growing initiatives to prepare nurses for any disasters, evidence suggests they are under prepared for disaster response.

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Can sleep quality and burnout affect the job performance of shift-work nurses? A hospital cross-sectional study. (Journal of advanced nursing, 2018, 74(3) p. 698-708)

The aim of this study was to investigate any possible relationship between sleep disorders, burnout and job performance in a shift-work population of nurses.

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Gamification of Nursing Education With Digital Badges. (Nurse educator, 2018, 43(2) p. 78-82)

Digital badges (DBs) serve as an innovative approach to gamifying nursing education by engaging socially connected, technologically savvy nursing students in learning. Because assessment and credentialing mechanisms are housed and managed online, DBs are designed as visible indicators of accomplishment and skill.

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The nurses’ work process in different countries: an integrative review. (Revista brasileira de enfermagem, 2018, 71(2) p. 413-423)

The rejection of managerial tasks hides the singularity of nurses’ work, due to the failure to understand the inseparable nature of managerial and healthcare tasks, given that it is what provides the expertise to coordinate the nursing work process and guide the healthcare work processes.

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Supporting Diverse Challenges of Ageing with Digital Enhanced Living Solutions. (Stud Health Technol Inform, 2018, Vol 246, p.75-90)

ey aims of this research are to support the ageing to live longer in their own homes; make daily challenges associated with ageing less limiting through use of technology supports; better support carers – both professional and family – in providing monitoring, proactive intervention, and community connectedness; enable in-home and in-residential care organisations to scale their support services and better use their workforces; and ultimately provide better quality of life.

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Caring for Carers of People with Dementia: A Protocol for Harnessing Innovation Through Deploying Leading Edge Technologies to Enable Virtual Support Groups and Services. (Stud Health Technol Inform, 2018, Vol 246, p.29-41)

The primary objective of this project is to examine the response of isolated rural carers for older people with dementia to a videoconference (VC) based peer support and information program. The primary outcomes are self-efficacy, quality of life, and mental health. Secondary outcomes are perceived social support and user satisfaction with the technology, and intention to continue VC interaction.

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Impact of Workplace Violence Against Nurses’ Thriving at Work, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intention: A Cross-sectional Study (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2018, Feb. Epub)

Work Place Violence (WPV) is a dangerous occupational hazard globally, and it is pervasive in the health service industry. It hinders nurses’ professional performance and reduces nursing quality. This study shows that WPV significantly negatively influenced nurses’ job satisfaction and thriving at work, and significantly positively influenced nurses’ turnover intention.

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Morale in nursing students: a priority for nurse retention (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2018, Feb. Epub)

For the first time in recent years, the number of nurses and midwives in the UK leaving the Nursing and Midwifery Council register has exceeded those joining. Fort-five per cent more registrants left than joined between 2016 – 2017, the majority of whom were aged under 40 (NMC, 2017).

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