Journal of clinical nursing
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Review
Benefits of sensory garden and horticultural activities in dementia care: a modified scoping review.
To provide a review on the benefits associated with the use of sensory gardens and horticultural activities in dementia care. ⋯ To further improve the use of the existing or planned gardens, an educational programme for staff that also includes skill training is recommended.
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To explore partners' experiences of everyday life in caring for a dying person with eating deficiencies at home. ⋯ The findings can assist palliative home care teams and other healthcare professionals to give support that goes beyond giving practical advice about food. Initiating talk about the current situation around food and meals at home, by posing questions and opening the way for conversations, is suggested.
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To describe nurses' attitudes towards medical devices and the factors influencing these attitudes. ⋯ Healthcare delivery increasingly incorporates the use of medical devices so that understanding nurses' attitudes towards medical devices is essential for their safe implementation.
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To investigate the experiences of patients with acute abdominal pain at discharge from an emergency department observation unit compared with discharge from a surgical assessment unit. ⋯ Units discharging patients with acute abdominal pain could be inspired by scheduled fast-track surgery programmes with structured information about admission, treatment and follow-up and easy access to relevant health professionals after discharge.
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To investigate the attitudes of nurses caring for hospitalised adult patients towards fever and antipyresis and to identify the predictors of these attitudes. ⋯ These findings highlight the need for continuing education programmes to eliminate fever phobia and improve nurses' competency for individualised fever care.