Electronic medication administration records and nursing administration of medications: An integrative review
The medication administration process is particularly susceptible to errors due to the error being least likely to be captured before reaching patients. Nurses administer medications as part of everyday practice. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Snezana Stolic, Linda Ng, Georgina Sheridan Tags: Review Source Type: research
Feasibility of supporting newly qualified nurses: Nominal group technique of the perspectives of nursing stakeholders
As the health industry grows, integration of newly qualified nurses into the workplace is critical to workforce sustainability. In one health service, a work-based student learning program, the Collaborative Clusters Education Model, was extended to support newly qualified nurses in their transition to the workplace. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 26, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Kristen Ranse, Belinda Gray, Sara McMillan, Letitia Del Fabbro, Susanne Pearce, Rachel Wardrop, Lyn Armit, Laurie Grealish Source Type: research
Exploration of the graduate nursing program in a forensic mental health setting: A qualitative enquiry
Forensic mental health nursing is a specialised practice area. Graduate programs are essential for recruitment and retention. There have, however, been very few studies exploring forensic mental health graduate programs. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 26, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Tessa Maguire, Jo Ryan, Rebecca Lofts, Daveena Mawren, Margaret Nixon, Brian McKenna Source Type: research
Exploring responsibilities for delivering quality nursing care using the Healthcare Quality Framework
Nurses have a professional obligation to provide safe, quality practice responsive to the needs of people they care for. The Healthcare Quality Framework designed to describe nurses ’ responsibilities in healthcare quality, was utilised to explore nurses’ perceptions of quality care to improve patients’ experience. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 22, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Lynette Cusack, Karleen Thornton, Janelle Brytan Source Type: research
Practice Readiness in very remote hospitals: Perceptions of early career and later career registered nurses
To understand the practice readiness of the early career registered nurse in their first five years of practice within very remote hospital healthcare provision. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 22, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Kerry-Ann Wilcox, Vicki Cope, Melanie Murray Source Type: research
An integrative review of nursing students ’ clinical placement experiences throughout their nursing degrees
Clinical placement experience is closely linked to nursing students ’ decisions to withdraw from their nursing degrees. While most nursing students withdraw before the end of the first year, a proportion leave in the latter years. There is a need to understand students' experiences of clinical placement across the entirety of their program. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Russ Diane, Nicola Whiteing, Christina Aggar Tags: Review Source Type: research
Older people's experiences of community engagement in aged care: A qualitative study
Engagement and social connection are key elements of a meaningful life however the current aged care system does not universally foster community connectedness. Limited research has explored community engagement from the perspective of older people in aged care. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 18, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Helen Rawson, Kerry Rigby, Cherene Ockerby, Helen Forbes Source Type: research
Nursing assessment and management of nutrition in older people with cancer: An integrative review
There is a risk of malnutrition when older people are diagnosed with cancer, highlighting the need for nutritional assessments and appropriate management to be undertaken by healthcare professionals including nurses. The absence of a standardised assessment method and management of nutrition in older people creates a gap in clinical practice and warrants further research. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 12, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Dima Nasrawi, Carol Reid, Megan Lee, Elisabeth Coyne Source Type: research
Older Persons Complex Care Nurse Practitioner model to reduce hospital readmissions: A pilot study
People aged over 65 years are associated with increased numbers of co-morbidities, higher health care needs, an increased risk of fragmented care and are four times more likely to be hospitalised than those under 65 years. Nurse Practitioners (NP) working with older populations improved screening, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction and provision of equal or better care for chronically ill patients. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 12, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Grainne Lowe, Jayne Dohrmann, Juliette Chapman, Lee Stamford, Andrea Driscoll Source Type: research
Health-promoting behaviours and perceived lifestyle cancer risk factors among nurses
Nurses play a pivotal role in promoting health for cancer prevention. Comparatively little is known, however, of their health-promoting behaviours and perceived lifestyle-related cancer risk factors. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 11, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Siaw Wei Tong, Ping Lei Chui, Mei Chan Chong, Li Yoong Tang, Caryn Mei Hsien Chan Source Type: research
Rural-urban disparities in healthy ageing: Evidence from a national study in China
The Chinese government has adopted the WHO healthy ageing framework to guide the development of services and initiatives to promote older people's health. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 8, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Sasha Yuanjie Deng, Ivy Yan Zhao, Mu-Hsing Ho, Priya Saravanakumar, Alex Molassiotis, Jed Montayre Source Type: research
Leadership enhancing culturally safe models of care in a Western Australian Aboriginal community context: A qualitative investigation
Models of care for community health nursing need to address social determinants of health for families, requiring community health nurse leaders to encourage all nurses to facilitate culturally safe models of care, particularly for vulnerable and underserved populations. Many challenges impact on provision of support for a range of population groups, with increasing attention focusing on how community health nurses lead equitable health activities for Aboriginal Australian families. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 6, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Ailsa Munns, Roz Walker Source Type: research
Evaluation of a multicomponent restraint reduction intervention in care homes
Physical restraints have been widely applied as a means to prevent accidents among care home residents with cognitive impairment. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 6, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Helen Yue-lai Chan, Florence Kwai-ying Ho, Kenny Chi-man Chui, Bel Pui-sze Wong, Maria Yeuk-ping Chui, Yayi Zhao, Chen Yang, Timothy Chi-yui Kwok Source Type: research
Assessment and communication excellence for safe patient outcomes (ACCELERATE): A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial protocol
Nurses play a major role in patient safety. Poor nursing assessment and communication practices are associated with higher incidence of the adverse events of undetected deterioration, falls, and pressure injuries. Despite widespread adoption of patient safety systems, occurrence of these events continues. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 5, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: John Rihari-Thomas, Susan Whittam, Liza Goncharov, Diana Slade, Benjamin McElduff, Tanya Pritchard, Jake McMahon, Alysia Coventry, Kelly Coughlan, Yvonne Steadward, Joanne Taylor, Anna Thornton, Kathryn Riddell, Karen Tuqiri, Kim Olesen, Maria R Dahm, Lau Tags: Protocol Source Type: research
Association between sensory impairments and restricted social participation in older adults: A cross-sectional study
Sensory impairments are common health concerns in older adults and are associated with cognitive decline and depression. Restriction in social participation is likely to be a key factor in explaining the association between sensory impairments and adverse outcomes. Studies on sensory impairments associated with restricted social participation are limited. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 1, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Ya-Chuan Tseng, Bih-Shya Gau, Tien-Chen Liu, Yeu-Sheng Hsieh, Guey-Shiun Huang, Meei-Fang Lou Source Type: research
