Journal of advanced nursing
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Multicenter Study
HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes, practices and perceptions of rural nurses in South Africa.
This paper is a report of a study exploring HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, practices and perceptions of nurses in the largely black and rural Limpopo Province of South Africa. ⋯ There is a need for accelerated HIV/AIDS training of rural nurses and for wider implementation of universal precautions and postexposure prophylaxis availability in public health facilities in southern Africa.
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This paper is a report of a study evaluating the perceived skills of nursing and allied healthcare professionals in providing psychosocial and physical rehabilitation advice, including the effect of years of burn injury experience. ⋯ Strategies to enhance effective staff/patient communication should form an integral part of staff education. The psychosocial needs of patients must be incorporated as an essential part of such strategies.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Daily interruption of sedative infusions in an adult medical-surgical intensive care unit: randomized controlled trial.
This article is a report of a study conducted to determine if a nursing-implemented protocol of daily interruption of sedative infusions vs. sedation as directed by the intensive care unit team would decrease duration of mechanical ventilation. ⋯ The nursing-implemented protocol of daily interruption of sedative infusions was neither beneficial nor harmful compared with usual practice, which has as its primary target the earliest possible awakening of patients.