Journal of clinical nursing
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To explore nurses' perceptions of the impact of a programme designed to train them to teach end-of-life care. ⋯ Quality end-of-life care is only possible with a skilled workforce, confident and able to apply the principles of compassionate end-of-life care to everyday practice. Appropriately trained, specialist staff are better able to teach others how to deliver good quality end-of-life care. Specialist staff with teaching responsibilities should be provided with, or engage in, continuous professional development to develop their skills and improve their efficacy when teaching.
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To examine the level of perception of the quality of discharge teaching and its associations with the readiness for hospital discharge among surgical patients in acute care hospitals. ⋯ This study provides baseline information reflecting the patient learning needs in discharge preparation to guide surgical nurses for improving the discharge teaching quality and enhancing the patients' readiness for hospital discharge.
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Multicenter Study
Exploring the needs of parents who experience miscarriage in the emergency department: A qualitative study with parents and nurses.
To understand how parents experienced miscarriage in an emergency department setting. Objectives were to identify parents' needs, isolate factors that influenced their experience, and provide recommendations to improve care from the perspective of women, their partners, nurses and nurse managers. ⋯ Nurses have an important role to play in improving parents' experience. They can do so by understanding the needs of parents and by being involved in developing new guidelines.
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The purpose of this article was to compare surgical oncology nurses caring behaviours to perceptions of their surgical oncology inpatients and determine internal consistency of the CAT-Nurse. ⋯ The results can serve as foundational knowledge for action plans aimed at increasing nurse comfort addressing lower scoring caring behaviours that would then result in improving patient perceptions which could be linked to patient satisfaction and reimbursement.
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Observational Study
Incidence, severity and risk factors of peripheral intravenous cannula-induced complications: An observational prospective study.
To determine the incidence, severity and risk factors of peripheral intravenous cannula-induced complications. ⋯ The results of the study draw attention to vulnerable groups of patients, cannula-specific and pharmacological risk factors for the development of peripheral intravenous cannula-induced complications.