Journal of clinical nursing
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To explore emergency department (ED) nurses' perceptions of current practices and essential components of effective change of shift nursing handover. ⋯ Provision of a handover framework incorporating key features and essential information has the potential to improve the efficiency of handover. Use of this framework may enhance the transfer of accurate and essential information to enable safe and high standards of nursing care in the ED.
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To examine nurses' discharge planning understanding, adherence and barriers. ⋯ Completion of discharge planning is important for the safe transition of patients from one care setting to the next. Before a systematic approach to discharge planning can be implemented, a greater understanding of nurses' discharge planning practice in acute care wards is required. Greater incorporation of discharge planning activities into nurses' daily practice may also occur if nurses are involved in the development and implementation of the discharge processes and then provided with education and regular feedback on monthly audit results.
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To explore healthcare experiences of Australian women living with intimate partner violence (IPV) and consider how these influence their understanding of IPV and sense of self. ⋯ Women require timely information and empathetic support from healthcare professionals to assist them in understanding and labelling their experiences as IPV. This enhances women's ability to feel deserving of, and ideally achieve, a life without violence.
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Aims and objective. To verify association between PU development with nursing workload and illness severity and to verify whether nursing workload and illness severity are related with Braden Scale scores. Background. Critically ill patients are more susceptible to treatment complications because of the severity of their clinical condition. Design. Prospective descriptive study. ⋯ However, nursing workload acted as a protective factor. Illness severity, nursing workload and age were related to Braden scores. Relevance to clinical practice. Accurate identification of risk factors and the use of clinical judgment in skin assessment are prerequisites for determining appropriate strategies to prevent pressure ulcers, to improve quality of care for patient safety and to reduce length of ICU and hospital stay and costs.
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To examine the relationships of social support and coping strategies to health-related quality of life among primary caregivers of stroke survivors in China. ⋯ Community healthcare providers may need to help caregivers strengthen strategies that are effective (planning, active coping, seeking instrumental and emotional support) and change those that are not helpful (venting, denial and self-blame).