Improving Patient Care Outcomes Through Better Delegation-Communication Between Nurses and Assistive Personnel. (Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 2018, 33(2) p 187-193)

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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Strategies to future-proof and enhance the nursing workforce. (Br J Nurs, 2018, 22;27(4) p. 220-221)

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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Understanding Value as a Key Concept in Sustaining the Perioperative Nursing Workforce. (AORN J, 2018, 107(3) p. 345-354)

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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A Comparison of Nursing Education and Workforce Planning Initiatives in the United States and England. (Policy Polit Nurs Pract., 2018, Jan, Epub)

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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Personal beliefs, culture and religion in community nursing care. (British Journal of Community Nursing, 2018 23(1) p. 46-47)

The article discusses the potential impacts that a nurse’s personal, cultural, and religious beliefs might have on patient care, and it mentions community nursing care in places such as England, as well as information about a nurse’s ability to deliver impartial and individualized care to patients. Nursing care quality is examined, along with a patient’s beliefs and preferences, psychological support for patients, and the impact of culture on diet and lifestyle.

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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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