What does surgical conscience mean to perioperative nurses: An interpretive description
Surgical Conscience is a unique concept that is central to the clinical practice of perioperative nurses. It is an abstract phenomenon that explains a nurse's moral obligation to safeguard surgical asepsis and patient safety. Despite being deeply rooted in perioperative tradition, the phenomenon is poorly understood and inadequately described. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - August 4, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Jed Duff, Lynette Bowen, Oya G ümüşkaya Bradley Source Type: research
Exploration of personal recovery-oriented care on an acute mental health unit
Personal recovery should be the cornerstone of mental health nursing practice. Nursing interventions should build on consumers' strengths to provide hope, so consumers are empowered to achieve their own personal goals. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 30, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Donna Hristodoulidis, Ian Munro, Chris Brooks Source Type: research
Leadership: Patient safety depends on it!
Safety leadership in healthcare is required and should be encouraged from the bedside through to the executive and is essential for the safety of the patients in our care. Major health inquiries have highlighted failure of leadership as a cause of poor patient outcomes. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 23, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Melanie Murray, Vicki Cope Source Type: research
Acceptability of a self-management support intervention for people living with type 2 diabetes to promote a person-centered approach by nurses: A qualitative study
The diabetes guidelines recommend that healthcare professionals adopt a person-centred approach when they support the self-management of people living with type 2 diabetes. However, nurses seem to have difficulty implementing this approach in their clinical practice. The Person-Centred Approach Diabetes Self-Management Support is an individual intervention to promote the adoption of a person-centred approach among nurses who intervene with people living with type 2 diabetes having self-management difficulties. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 22, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: S. Lafontaine, P. Bourgault, E. Ellefsen Source Type: research
Missed nursing care in Australia: Exploring the contributing factors
Nurses are increasingly ending their shifts with outstanding tasks and missing vital aspects of patient care. Research has indicated that this could have a detrimental effect on both nurse and patient outcomes. The connection between inadequate staffing levels and missed nursing care is well documented in the research. However, other contributing factors leading to missed nursing care remain uncertain. This scoping review seeks to identify the contributing factors to missed nursing care in an Australian context. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 21, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Sarah L Mills, Maree Duddle Tags: Review Source Type: research
A nursing innovation to promote healthy bowel functioning in children
Constipation affects up to 30% of children world-wide and if not managed effectively, this condition can progress into adult years. Constipation in children can result in physical and psychosocial concern. One way to help reduce constipation in children is for nurses and health care professionals, who are working with children, to put strategies in place that enable children to gain an awareness of their own bowel functioning and ways to promote healthy stools. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 7, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Kerry Reid-Searl, Carina Anderson, Kate Crowley, Nicole Blunt, Rachelle Cole, Dayani Suraweera Source Type: research
It's all about the individual's right to choose: A qualitative study of Australian culturally and linguistically diverse nurses ’ knowledge of and attitudes to voluntary assisted dying
Nurses have a fundamental role in providing care for people at the end of life. Some nurses from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds may have diverse opinions about death which may affect their views about voluntary assisted dying (VAD) and may impact on the care they provide. To date, there has not been a focus on the views of nurses from different CALD backgrounds on VAD. The implementation of VAD may place them at risk of ethical, moral, social and professional distress. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 4, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Joy Penman, Gulzar Malik, Kelly Rogerson, Julie Murphy, Yaping Zhong, Claire E Johnson Source Type: research
Understanding the motivation of nurses volunteering for non-disaster humanitarian service
Nurses who volunteer in a nondisaster humanitarian surgical mission receive little attention in the research literature. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 4, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Sonja Dawson, Debra Jackson, Doug Elliott Source Type: research
Profiling risk factors of patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes awaiting outpatient diabetes specialist consultant appointment, a narrative review
Entry to seek health care services in Australia is based on a person's acuity rating as stipulated in legislation, standards and policy. In the context of diabetes Specialist Outpatient Departments, access involves a referral that is triaged by a clinician into a categorised waitlist. However, within categories, access to health care is queue based only, which omits patient centric factors determining the order of appointment allocation. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - July 2, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Shannon Sheehan, Kristin Wicking, Maude Chapman, Melanie Birks Source Type: research
Multifactorial falls interventions for people over 65 years in the acute hospital setting: An integrative review
Inpatient falls in the elderly are costly health care complications. Multifactorial falls interventions appear to be the most effective in preventing falls, however the majority of studies on multifactorial falls interventions have been conducted in residential aged care settings and rehabilitation units. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - June 21, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Allison Wallis, Christina Aggar, Deb Massey Tags: Review Source Type: research
Exploring orthopaedic patients ’ experiences of hospital discharge: Implications for nursing care
Nurses play a key role in providing discharge education. With the increased demand for orthopaedic surgery and subsequent fast ‐track surgical programmes resulting in reduction in hospital length of stay, obtaining patient feedback about discharge is important to inform nursing practice of discharge. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - June 16, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Rosemary Saunders, David Dineen, Karen Gullick, Karla Seaman, Ren ée Graham, Sandra Finlay Source Type: research
Nurse wellbeing during the coronavirus (2019) pandemic: A qualitative descriptive study
The wellbeing of individuals influences organisational outcomes. Insight into nurses ’ wellbeing is crucial to a sustaining a high-quality workforce. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - June 14, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Rebecca J. Jarden, Aaron J. Jarden, Tracey J. Weiland, Glenn Taylor, Naomi Brockenshire, Michelle Rutherford, Catherine Carbery, Kate Moroney, Marie F. Gerdtz Source Type: research
Nurse wellbeing during the coronavirus (2019) pandemic: A qualitative descriptive study.
The wellbeing of individuals influences organisational outcomes. Insight into nurses ’ wellbeing is crucial to a sustaining a high-quality workforce. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - June 14, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Rebecca J JARDEN, Aaron J JARDEN, Tracey J. WEILAND, Glenn TAYLOR, Naomi BROCKENSHIRE, Michelle RUTHERFORD, Catherine CARBERY, Kate MORONEY, Marie GERDTZ Source Type: research
Healthy eating and physical activity among new graduate nurses: A qualitative study of barriers and enablers during their first year of clinical practice
New graduate nurses entering the workforce experience numerous barriers to maintaining a healthy lifestyle including shift work, the high cost of healthy foods at the workplace and high levels of exhaustion which reduce motivation to participate in regular physical activity. Research has documented unhealthy lifestyles among nurses across the profession. However, few studies focus on graduates' experiences during their transition into their careers. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - June 2, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Elizabeth Brogan, Chris Rossiter, Christine Duffield, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson Source Type: research
Disaster education for Australian nursing students: An integrative review of published literature to inform curricula
Globally, families and communities are impacted by disasters every day. Nurses are integral to assisting in disasters, in the support and enablement of individuals and communities. However, some studies indicate that nurses feel ill-equipped to assist, partially because disaster content is not thoroughly addressed in the undergraduate curriculum. Therefore, nursing schools need to equip undergraduate nursing students with the knowledge and preparation required to assist effectively during and/or following a disaster. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - June 2, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Odira W.N. Ituma, Jamie Ranse, Kasia Bail, Alison Hutton Tags: Review Source Type: research
