Stress, burnout and compassion fatigue in nursing staff: How may Acceptance and Commitment Training help to intervene? (Psycho-Oncology, 2018, Vol. 27, p. 9)

Oncology nurses are at high risk of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue. Evidence-based interventions tailored to this population are essential to promote stress-management skills. These may help to minimise absenteeism and staff turnover and maintain excellent patient care.

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Impact of Relational Coordination on Nurse Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement and Burnout: Achieving the Quadruple Aim (The Journal of nursing administration, 2018, 48(3) p. 132-140)

To explore how relational coordination, known to enhance quality and efficiency outcomes for patients and hospitals, impacts direct care nurse outcomes such as burnout, work engagement, and job satisfaction, addressing the “Quadruple Aim,” to improve the experience of providing care.

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More investment needed to ease pressures on nursing workforce. (Learning Disability Practice, 2018, 21(2) p. 8-9)

The article presents a report from the Common’s health and social care committee as of March 2018 showing that more investment is needed to increase the number of learning disability nurse workforce in Great Britain.

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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.

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Preparing the nursing workforce for the next era: Re-classifying and reframing enrolled nursing knowledge. (Collegian, 2018, 25(2) p. 237-240)

This paper situates a critical discussion of enrolled nurse education within a symbiotic relationship model to consider how nursing knowledge can enhance workforce performance and contribute to improved function of health systems.

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What keeps nurses happy? Implications for workforce well-being strategies. (Nurs Manag (Harrow), 2018, 25(1) p. 34-41)

The aim of this article is to present selected findings from a doctoral study on the subjective well-being and subjective experience of mental health problems in UK mental health nurses. Here the concept of ‘nurses’ well-being’ is explored.

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The use of acuity and frailty measures for district nursing workforce plans. (British Journal of Community Nursing, 2018, 23(2) p. 86-92)

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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The nursing workforce of the future. (British Journal of Community Nursing, 2018, 23(2), p. 57)

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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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)

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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Meaningful Recognition Fights Nurse Burnout…Lesly A Kelly. (Hospital Employee Health, 2018, 37(3) p. 1-3)

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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