Journal of clinical nursing
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The aim of this study was to establish if postregistration education and clinical experience influence nurses' inferences of patients' physical pain. ⋯ It is suggested that the specialist nurses use defence mechanisms to protect them from the conflict that arises from working within the clinical environment. These cognitive strategies have the potential to ease cognitive dissonance for the nurse, but may increase patient suffering.
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Multicenter Study
The gap between saying and doing in postoperative pain management.
To understand how nurses contribute to postoperative pain management in a surgical setting and to identify barriers to achieving optimal postoperative pain alleviation. ⋯ Nursing education and practice both need to promote knowledge of pain and pain management, as well as empathy and empathic communication in relation to pain. They need to collaborate in guiding nurses to act in accord with theoretical knowledge and so enhance competence in nursing actions related to postoperative pain management.
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(i) To identify barriers that could either prevent community nurses from prescribing altogether or reduce the number of times that a nurse might prescribe. (ii) To determine how wide spread the barriers identified above were. ⋯ There is a danger that the anticipated benefits to patient care resulting from the introduction of nurse prescribing may not materialize if the barriers identified in this study are not addressed.
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To describe nurses' and mental health nurse assistants' perceptions of advantages and disadvantages about working on a psychiatric ward with a locked entrance door. ⋯ It is important for staff working within psychiatric care to reflect upon the fact that a locked entrance door is connected with a range of negative as well as positive perceptions and to minimize patient and own concerns connected to the locked door.
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To verify the association between quality of life and morbidity, mortality and clinical indicators in haemodialysis patients. ⋯ Haemodialysis patients experience various problems that may adversely influence their quality of life. Special care must be given to those who have diabetes mellitus, high morbidity scores, low serum albumin and low haematocrits.