Journal of clinical nursing
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A feasibility and efficacy randomised controlled trial of swaddling for controlling procedural pain in preterm infants.
This study aimed to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of swaddling to control procedural pain among preterm infants. ⋯ This article presents the feasibility and efficacy of swaddling as a non-pharmacological and non-invasive intervention to relieve pain during the heelstick procedures among preterm infants. Swaddling can contribute to control minor procedural pain in neonates as one of the simple, safe, cost effective, humanistic and natural analgesia alternatives.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Short-term intervention to reduce anxiety before coronary artery bypass surgery--a randomised controlled trial.
The aim of this study was to evaluate an intervention with individualised information and emotional support before coronary artery bypass grafting in a controlled randomised trial. ⋯ These results advocate training for nurses and physicians to provide emotional support to patients before coronary artery bypass grafting.
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The Aims of this study were to explore the effects of nurses' attitudes and intentions regarding medication administration error reporting on actual reporting behaviours. ⋯ Regardless of nurse managers' and co-workers' attitudes towards medication administration error reporting, nurses are likely to report medication administration errors if they detect them. Management of medication administration errors should focus on increasing nurses' awareness and recognition of error occurrence.
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To construct a grounded theory that explains the clinical reasoning processes that registered nurses use to recognise delirium while caring for older adults in acute care settings. ⋯ Registered nurses could draw from the various processes identified in this research to develop their clinical reasoning practice to enhance their effective assessment strategies. Delirium recognition by registered nurses will contribute to quality care to older adults.
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To provide knowledge about how immigrant parents of children with complex health needs manage their family lives and how this affects their own health and quality of life. ⋯ Hospital nurses, schools and community health care can play a valuable role in supporting the parents of children with complex health needs. It is important that parents are informed about their rights and receive a coordinator and interdisciplinary group to ensure that their needs are met with assistance and respite care. That maternal health was worse in this sample implies that health care professionals should pay more attention to reducing stress among these caregivers.