Month: March 2018

The role of job satisfaction, work engagement, self-efficacy and agentic capacities on nurses’ turnover intention and patient satisfaction. (Applied Nursing Research, 2018, Vol 39, p. 130-140)

Nurses’ voluntary turnover is a worrying global phenomenon which affects service quality. Retaining nursing staff within a hospital is important to eliminate the negative influence of voluntary turnover on the quality of care and organisation costs. Results of this study in Italy highlight the importance of implementing actions to improve self-efficacy, self-regulation skill, work engagement and job satisfaction in order to reduce nurses’ turnover intention and increase patient satisfaction with nursing care.

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A New Perspective on Nursing Retention: Job Embeddedness in Acute Care Nurses. (Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 2018, 24(1) p. 31-37)

Job embeddedness considers job satisfaction while incorporating the concepts of environment and community. . Increasing age, ties to community, and peer relationships were found to be most indicative of job embeddedness by this study. Nursing professional development practitioners can impact retention by focusing on factors that encourage nurses to stay in their positions.

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Recruitment and retention in general practice nursing: What about pay? (Practice Nursing, 2018, 29(2) p. 83-87)

Practice nurses have no nationally recognised payscale and have to negotiate pay, terms and conditions on an individual basis, as employees of independent contractors, not enrolled on Agenda for Change. A pay framework that mapped to the general practice nurse career framework has been developed in Lambeth, and endorsed by Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group and Community Education Providers Network. The aim is to allow general practice to compete with all healthcare sectors and to make general practice an attractive and viable career option.

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A narrative evaluation of a community-based nurse navigation role in an urban at-risk community. (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2017, 73(12) p. 2997-3006)

This articles describes four themes: ‘opening the door’; ‘more than just a conversation’; ‘making connections’; and ‘on a new trajectory’ used by community nurses to address persistent health and social barriers adversely affecting health equity and well-being, in Canada.

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A Quality Improvement System to Manage Feeding Assistance Care in Assisted-Living (The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, 2018, Feb. Epub)

A quality improvement system resulted in sustained levels of mealtime feeding assistance and between-meal snack delivery and a low prevalence of weight loss among ALF residents receiving dementia care. Given that many ALF residents receiving dementia care are likely to be at risk for low oral intake and unintentional weight loss, ALFs should implement a quality improvement system similar to that described in this project, despite the absence of regulations to do so.

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Malnutrition in Older Adults (AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 2018, Jan. Epub)

Older adults are at risk for compromised nutritional status because of physical changes associated with aging, as well as cognitive, psychological, and social factors such as dementia, depression, isolation, and limited income.

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Dilemmas for guardians of advanced dementia patients regarding tube feeding. (Age & Ageing, 2018, 47(1) p. 138-143)

Tube feeding was once deemed a helpful solution but in recent years its inefficiency has been proved, and it is no longer practiced in many countries around the world. the families of most patients do not discuss end-of-life issues with them. The overwhelming preference for using the technology was interpreted as life-saving, in contrast to comfort feeding, which was deemed euthanasia. The reasons given for the decision to tube feed were drawn from a range of outlooks: religion, the patient’s earlier survival capacity, and pragmatic considerations involving relations with nursing home staff.

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The occurrence and persistence of thoughts of suicide, self-harm and death in family caregivers of people with dementia: a longitudinal data analysis over 2 years. (International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 2018, 33(2) p. 263-270)

Family caregivers of people with dementia often report high levels of stress and depression, but little is known about those who contemplate suicide or self-harm. This study explores thoughts of suicide, self-harm and death in dementia caregivers and investigates the characteristics that distinguish them from those without such thoughts.

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