Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
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To examine media portrayals of nurses and their roles during the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa. ⋯ Media coverage of major health events can demonstrate system inadequacies, but inaccurate and misleading portrayals of nurses and the nursing profession can undermine and diminish the image of the nursing profession.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of nurse burnout on nurse-reported quality of care and patient adverse events and outcomes in Thai hospitals. ⋯ Hospital administrators, nurse managers, and health leaders urgently need to create favorable work environments supporting nursing practice in order to reduce burnout and improve quality of care.
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To analyze World Health Organization (WHO) documents to identify global nursing issues and development. ⋯ Organizational leadership is important in order to optimize the use of nursing competence in practice and inform policy makers regarding the value of nursing to promote people's health.
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To examine compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction in acute care nurses across multiple specialties in a hospital-based setting. ⋯ Compassion fatigue in nurses has clear implications for nursing retention and the quality of care. Organizations willing to invest in reducing compassion fatigue have the potential to improve financial savings by reducing turnover and adverse events associated with burnout.
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In reports of end-of-life communication interventions, it is difficult to find sufficient detail about the intervention to allow replication, extension, and translation into practice. The purpose of this article is to provide details about a theory-guided advance care planning intervention, sharing the patient's illness representations to increase trust (SPIRIT), an intervention that has been shown to be efficacious for patients and their surrogates with respect to preparation for end-of-life decision making. ⋯ The details about the components of a theory-guided advance care planning intervention may facilitate translation of the intervention to practice settings.