International journal of nursing studies
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Meta Analysis
Global prevalence and incidence of pressure injuries in hospitalised adult patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Pressure injuries are frequently occurred adverse events in hospitals, affecting the well-being of patients and causing considerable financial burden to healthcare systems. However, the estimates of prevalence, incidence and hospital-acquired rate of pressure injury in hospitalised patients vary considerably in relevant published studies. ⋯ This study suggested that the burden of pressure injuries remains substantial with over one in ten adult patients admitted to hospitals affected. Superficial pressure injuries, such as Stage I and II, are most common stages and are preventable. Our results highlight healthcare institutions' focus on pressure injuries globally and supports the need to dedicate resources to prevention and treatment on pressure injuries. Registration number: PROSPERO CRD42019118774.
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Meta Analysis
Patient-reported outcome measures for diabetes self-care: A systematic review of measurement properties.
The aims of the present systematic review were to identify currently available patient-reported outcome measures for diabetes self-care that have been psychometrically evaluated and to evaluate their measurement properties. ⋯ None of the identified diabetes self-care instruments appears to be universally superior to the others. The Diabetes Self-Management Instrument might be the best based on current evidence, but this requires further evaluation of the measurement of invariance across languages. The eight-item Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities-Revised is the shortest instrument, but current evidence with regards to its content validity and reliability needs to be considered before applying this instrument. Further studies are recommended to evaluate the reliability, measurement error, and responsiveness of the diabetes self-care measurements.
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There is a shortage of nurses worldwide, and a large number of older nurses will be entering retirement in the near future. Older nurses have rich nursing experience, and their retirement is a major loss of resources for the nursing profession. Returning to work after retirement is becoming increasingly popular among retirees today, but there is limited knowledge of the perceptions of older nurses regarding continuing to work in a nursing career after retirement. ⋯ These themes confirmed previous findings and offered new perspectives on older Chinese nurses' perceptions of working in a nursing career after retirement. These findings will influence future policy development and research directions. Policies for facilitating a prolonged working life should be developed. Future research should focus on how to address the challenges confronted by older nurses.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of expressed breast milk, swaddling and facilitated tucking methods in reducing the pain caused by orogastric tube insertion in preterm infants: A randomized controlled trial.
Orogastric tube feeding is used to support the nutrition of preterm infants. Although nonpharmacological methods are effective in reducing the pain caused by orogastric tube insertion, only limited studies have been found addressing this pain. No study has used combined nonpharmacological methods to reduce this orogastric tube insertion pain. ⋯ The swaddling+expressed breast milk method is clinically better pain relief nonpharmalogical option and is the recommended method to nurses for the orogastric tube insertion procedures, preterm infants.
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Remote wireless monitoring is a new technology that allows the continuous recording of ward patients' vital signs, supporting nurses by measuring vital signs frequently and accurately. A case series is presented to illustrate how these systems might contribute to improved patient surveillance. ⋯ This case series illustrates that a wireless remote vital signs monitoring system on medical and surgical wards has the potential to reduce time to detect deteriorating patients.