Journal of clinical nursing
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To identify the specialist role/s that nurses perform and the specialist skills that nurses use when caring for people with intellectual disability. ⋯ Understanding the skills required of nurses caring for people with intellectual disability provides the opportunity for more nurses to develop these specialised relational skills and for this branch of nursing to attract professional recognition that is currently limited.
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To assess intensive care unit nurses' knowledge of intensive care unit delirium and delirium assessment before and after an educational intervention. In addition, nurses' perception on the usefulness of a delirium assessment tool and barriers against delirium assessment were assessed as secondary objectives. ⋯ This study supports existing evidences, indicating that education and training could increase nurses' knowledge of delirium and delirium assessment. Improving nurses' knowledge could potentially lead to better delirium management practice and improve ICU patient care. Thus, continuous efforts to improve and sustain nurses' knowledge become relevant in ICU settings.
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This study attempts to develop and determine the effect a rational-emotive-behaviour-therapy-based self-management programme can have on the self-efficacy, self-care, depression and dyssomnia of patients undergoing early renal dialysis. ⋯ Rational-emotive-behaviour-therapy-based self-management programmes can be used in clinical nursing sites to improve the self-efficacy and self-care of early renal dialysis patients.
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To explore allied health staff perceptions on the role of nurses in subacute care wards. ⋯ Lack of understanding of the nurses' role contributes to lack of respect for the nursing contribution to rehabilitation. Nurses have a key role in rehabilitation sometimes impeded by poor teamwork with allied health staff. Processes in subacute care wards need examination to facilitate more effective team practices inclusive of nurses. Progressing patients' independence in rehabilitation units involves activities of daily living with nurses as much as therapy-based sessions.
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Rapid response teams, such as critical care outreach teams, have prominent roles in managing end-of-life transitions in critical illness, often questioning appropriateness of treatment escalation. Clinical uncertainty presents clinicians with dilemmas in how and when to escalate or de-escalate treatment.