Journal of clinical nursing
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To explore decision processes and types of decisions made by heart failure specialist nurses. ⋯ There are several strategies that could be used to improve the match between the decisions that heart failure specialist nurses take and the decision processes they use. These include the development of more tailored decision support tools for medication titration decisions and the provision of structured decision aids for assessing patients' need for palliative care.
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To describe the rate of needlestick/sharp injuries in nursing students, to estimate the rate of vaccination administration and to define nursing students' status using universal precautions for protecting from blood-borne infections. ⋯ Findings will help in designing more intensive education programs directed at the students to increase their awareness of and compliance with Universal Precautions and in instituting policies so that they are fully immunised against hepatitis B before beginning clinical practice.
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To investigate the amount, type and accuracy of citations use in support of product related claims from advertisements of wound care products. ⋯ Nurses have increasing responsibilities for the prescribing of both drugs and devices, which must be accompanied by the ability to interpret marketing materials and research evidence critically. Nurse educators must ensure that nurse education generally and nurse prescriber training particularly, builds skills of information retrieval and critical appraisal.