Journal of clinical nursing
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This pilot study assesses the knowledge and attitudes of medicine, nursing, dentistry and health technical students toward organ donation. ⋯ These findings highlight a need to review these schools' curricula and emphasize the importance of organ transplantation. This strategy may be part of the solution to the chronic shortage of donor organs for transplantation.
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This review aims to highlight the experiences of black African nurses in the United Kingdom. ⋯ As the nursing workforce in the United Kingdom becomes increasingly diverse through international recruitment, it is important to have knowledge of experiences of different groups of nurses. This helps to devise adaptation programs for smooth transition tailored to particular groups and training that will help United Kingdom nurses to work in harmony with their foreign colleagues.
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To review research published in the past 15 years about how children's nurses' negotiate with parents in relation to family-centred care. ⋯ For family-centred care to be a reality nurses need to negotiate and communicate with children and their families effectively. Parents need to be able to negotiate with health staff what this participation will involve and to negotiate new roles for themselves in sharing care of their sick child. Parents should be involved in the decision-making process. However, research suggests that a lack of effective communication, professional expectations and issues of power and control often inhibit open and mutual negotiation between families and nurses.
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The aim of this project was to examine pain management practices with older people admitted to the colorectal unit of an acute hospital trust. ⋯ The project demonstrated some of the multiple and complex factors that affect the older persons' pain experience and identified three action research cycles for further development work.
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The aim of this ethnographic study was to explore the culture of a trauma team in relation to human factors. ⋯ The findings suggest that support systems for role development of junior team leaders should be formalized. The proven airline industry techniques of Crew Resource Management, focusing on teamwork and effective communication, could be implemented into continuing professional development for trauma teams to engender collaboration and interprofessional practice.