Journal of clinical nursing
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This study investigated community nurses understanding of teamwork in primary care. ⋯ Nurses clearly articulated their contribution to primary care, but recognised that there are many challenges to overcome. An enhanced primary care team has the potential to allow the public access to both the individual and collective skills and knowledge of team members.
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This study aimed to explore gender differences in attitudes towards sexual relationships of adolescent attending nurse led sexual health clinics. ⋯ Male and female attitudes clearly differ. Female responses are more complex and empathic because of the more complex nature of the social pressures that sexualise young women. Young males are not as subject to these social forces. Young men are socialized into behaviour that can place females under pressure to have sex - this pressure can include the use of alcohol. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTISE: Nurses working in sexual health should attempt to encourage empathic thinking in male clients. Females should be educated to deal with the social pressures they may face from their partners. Practitioners should also recognise the problematic role alcohol can play within sexual relationships.
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To describe and explore gender aspects in telenursing as experienced by Swedish telenurses. ⋯ Telenurses should be aware of the risk of stereotyping their dialogues with callers in a way that seems to fit better with female callers' ways of communicating. Clinical supervision based on reflective practice and peer reviews of calls might diminish this risk. Telenurses also need more training in handling overt or covert power messages based on male superiority.
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To investigate predictors of patients' preferences for participation in clinical decision-making in inpatient nursing care. ⋯ Patient preferences for participation differed considerably and are best elicited by assessment of the individual patient. Relevance to clinical practice. The nurses have a professional responsibility to act in such a way that patients can participate and make decisions according to their own values from an informed position. Access to knowledge of patients'basic assumptions and preferences for participation is of great value for nurses in the care process. There is a need for nurses to use structured methods and tools for eliciting individual patient preferences regarding participation in clinical decision-making.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Physical fitness of older adults in senior activity centres after 24-week silver yoga exercises.
Promoting physical fitness of young-older adults is essential in reducing healthcare expenditures which would occur in the future for those with chronic health problems. The silver yoga exercise programme was developed to accommodate the reduced body flexibility experienced by many older adults and was critically reviewed by experts and pilot-tested with community-dwelling older adults. This study aimed to test older adults' physical fitness after a 24-week silver yoga exercise programme and to examine whether the programme could be further shortened to fit senior activity centres' programme designs. ⋯ The shortened silver yoga exercise programme is recommended to be incorporated as an activity programme in community-settings to promote the physical fitness of older adults.