Journal of clinical nursing
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(1) To develop an insight into the opportunities and barriers to nurse prescribing for a case study of children's nurses. (2) To consider the implications of independent nurse prescribing for children's nurses and the potential for nurse prescribing to be developed in acute children's care settings. (3) To use research data to develop a training strategy. ⋯ Pertinent for senior nurses responsible for developing children's nursing practice and services for children in acute settings.
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This paper reports on the non-participant observational findings from a study, which examined hospital-based nurses' health promoting nursing practice in an acute setting. ⋯ Nursing programmes must highlight health promotion as integral to practice and emphasis the socio-political dimensions of health promotion.
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To explore partnership in care with a small sample of children's nurses in an inner city trust. (i) To obtain local data on what a sample of children's nurses understand by partnership in care and to what degree partnership in care is evident in their practice; (ii) where feasible, to compare these data with national and international literatures describing partnership in care and provide pointers that will be useful in contributing and responding to the children's national service framework. ⋯ Attitudes, respect for the family and communication should improve to enhance the practice of partnership in care. Respect for the child and family and communication have both been identified as important qualities within the new National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services. Further research is suggested to determine the applicability of these findings to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
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This paper aims to add to nurses' knowledge concerning the losses and emotional labour family caregivers face caring for people living with neurodegenerative, life-limiting illnesses such as motor neurone disease. ⋯ Nurses can be independent confidants who share the emotional labour and work with caregivers to develop interventions to assist them to manage their losses and their changing needs for psychological and emotional support.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A quasi-experimental study on a community-based stroke prevention programme for clients with minor stroke.
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a community-based stroke prevention programme in (1) improving knowledge about stroke; (2) improving self-health-monitoring practice; (3) maintaining behavioural changes when adopting a healthy lifestyle for stroke prevention. ⋯ Effective educational intervention by professional nurses helped clients integrate their learned knowledge into their real-life practice. This empowering, that is, the taking of responsibility by clients for their own self-care management on a daily basis, affirms that patient education has moved beyond teaching people facts.