Journal of clinical nursing
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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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Comparative Study
Pain process of patients with cardiac surgery-Semantic annotation of electronic patient record data.
To describe and compare the pain process of the patients' with cardiac surgery through nurses' and physicians' documentations in the electronic patient records. ⋯ The study provides knowledge and guidance of pain process aspects that can be used to achieve an effective pain assessment and more comprehensive documentation.
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To explore parental involvement in the child's acute pain care and establish ways in which parental preferences for involvement in their child's care can be identified, facilitated and enhanced by nurses. ⋯ Children deserve optimum pain care, which includes parental involvement. Parental involvement underpinned by the principles of family-centred care was poorly implemented. Parents attempted to be involved and advocate for their child's pain care whether or not they were supported by nurses. An alternative approach for supporting parents to advocate in their child's acute pain care is offered, the "Partnership in Pain Care Model."
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To explore the role that Donor Transplant Co-ordinators have played and the future potential of Specialist Nurses for Organ Donation (SN-ODs), within organ donation strategies in the UK and other countries. ⋯ There is a need to clarify the role of the Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation and their impact on improving rates of organ donation.
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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.