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A personal narrative is presented which explores the author’s experience of completing her nursing elective in Malawi, East Africa.
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The purpose of this study was to explore how the use of an EHR tailored to perioperative practice affects Danish perioperative nurses’ documentation practices.
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The purpose of this study was to develop and implement an interactive situational e-learning system, integrating nursing ethical decisions into a nursing ethics course, and to evaluate the effects of this course on student nurses’ ethical decision-making competence.
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Leading NHS trusts are recruiting charge nurses using an interview technique that focuses on innate strengths rather than competencies. The approach recognises that even a great nurse will struggle in the wrong job.
Senior nurses say it is clear when a ward is well run by a good sister or charge nurse. But it is also obvious in units where standards are not what they should be that some ward sisters or charge nurses underperform. It is clear that recruitment to this role – which is so vital for patient safety and experience – is not always a success.
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A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that patients with dementia are more likely to die if their caregivers have poor mental health.
The findings demonstrate that caregiver health, and mental health in particular, should be taken very seriously by doctors treating patients with dementia. Thankfully, medications are available for depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behavior, and other mental health disorders, and physicians should not hesitate to treat them.
The researchers aren’t exactly sure why caregiver mental health appears to have such a pronounced effect on patient mortality, but they suspect that poor mental health may damage social bonds between patients and caregivers, which are known to lead to worse health outcomes.
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A departing nurse director has spoken at the RCN congress of the ‘anxiety of individuality’ sometimes felt in senior roles such as hers. Heather Caudle is leaving her position as chief nurse at Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey, to take up the role of director of nursing for improvement at NHS England.
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The transition of graduate nurses to practice has been identified as challenging. Graduate nurses report feeling stressed, ill prepared, and having intentions to leave jobs and the profession. Concerns of intentions to leave are worrisome for the nursing profession, especially when faced with the need to replace an aging nursing workforce, and to maintain quality patient care.
Based on the findings of this Canadian thesis a number of implications targeting graduate nurse transition and retention at nursing practice, education, research and policy levels are proposed.
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Providers of district nursing services lack the necessary tools to adequately plan staffing levels to meet patient demand, according to new safe staffing guidance.
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To explore the role art centres in remote communities play for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living with dementia.
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This study aimed to examine whether the expectation for physical activity to minimize dementia risk was associated with physical activity level and whether this association was moderated by perceived high value of dementia prevention among older adults. Participants completed questionnaires and wore accelerometers to measure their average daily steps and level of physical activity.
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