“I changed my mind after my placement”: The influence of clinical placement environment on career choices of final-year pre-registration nurses
Clinical placements (CPs) in the final year of nursing education largely impact nursing students ’ professional development by exposing them to nursing realities. Nursing students also use placement exposure to identify suitable career opportunities for their upcoming professional life. However, there is limited evidence on how final-year CPs may attract pre-registration nursing students into different nursing specialties, including hospital and non-hospital settings. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - January 3, 2024 Category: Nursing Authors: Edah Anyango, Irene Ngune, Janie Brown, Esther Adama Source Type: research
Mental health nurses ’ caring efficacy towards consumers with dual diagnosis: A descriptive study
This study aimed to assess mental health nurses ’ caring efficacy towards consumers with dual diagnosis in Australian mental health settings. The research question was: What is the caring efficacy of mental health nurses towards consumers with coexisting mental health and drug and alcohol problems? (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - December 20, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Roopalal Anandan, Wendy M. Cross, Michael Olasoji, Huy Nguyen Source Type: research
Contextualising an online mindfulness-based intervention for young people with cancer: A qualitative study
Despite improved prognosis, living with cancer can still negatively impact young people ’s psychosocial well-being. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) have been shown to help manage cancer-related stress but tailored interventions for young people are warranted. In addition, attendance at intensive face-to-face MBI is often a barrier to access and adherence. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - December 20, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Sheeja Perumbil Pathrose, Jonny Wells, Pandora Patterson, Fiona Mcdonald, Bronwyn Everett, Jane Ussher, Yenna Salamonson, Gina M. Biegel, Tho Nguyen, Lucie Ramjan Source Type: research
Balancing nursing and midwifery student equity and public safety: An Australian case study
Nursing and midwifery academics have multiple responsibilities, including developing curricula that promote public safety and ethical practice. Effective governance processes are required to help academics manage students who pose a risk to public safety. However, the pressure to increase graduate numbers and prioritise student-centred approaches can pose challenges. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - December 20, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Bridget Ferguson, Tanya Capper Source Type: research
The effect of hospital volunteering on empathy in nursing and medical students
Empathic care benefits patients and healthcare providers. There is evidence of self-reported empathy decline among students in healthcare education. Hospital volunteering could assist undergraduate healthcare students to develop empathetic relationships with patients. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - December 18, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary-Ellen Barker, Jennie King, Brett Mitchell, Amanda Dawson, Gary Crowfoot Tags: Research paper Source Type: research
Factors predisposing hospitals and nursing home staff to use personal protective equipment
As physical contact is the one of the major transmission modes for a COVID-19 infection, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by nursing staff is warranted. A focus has been placed on the availability of PPE in the recent literature, but data are lacking on the actual use and the factors that predispose nursing staff in hospitals and nursing homes to use PPE are missing. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - December 11, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Manuela Hoedl, Doris Eglseer, Daniela Schoberer, Silvia Bauer Source Type: research
Facilitator experiences of providing feedback of large quality and safety datasets to staff: A qualitative study
Positive safety cultures are imperative for patient and staff outcomes. For transformation to occur in healthcare safety cultures, data should be collected at clinical, professional, and system levels and staff provided with the opportunity to review and take action. Feedback of such data, specifically large datasets, can be both difficult and confronting for those giving and receiving the information. As such, facilitation is a critical element of the feedback process that can ensure context is understood by those receiv ing feedback, strengths of the findings are outlined, and actions are forthcoming in response to the...
Source: Collegian - December 11, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Rebekkah Middleton, Denise Edgar, Emma Radbron, Val Wilson Source Type: research
Dear Diary — Shining a light on the work of 200 nurses
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the World Health Assembly designated 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - December 6, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary Mulcahy, Karen Tuqiri, Kathryne E. Hoban, Tracy Levett-Jones Tags: Research paper Source Type: research
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Source: Collegian - November 29, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Not just for surgeons: A qualitative exploration of the surgical consent process
Obtaining consent for surgery is a legal requirement and a professional practice standard, but little is known about how nurses and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) engage with this process. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - November 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Therese M. Gardiner, Sharon Latimer, Jayne Hewitt, Brigid M. Gillespie Source Type: research
A qualitative approach to exploring nurse practitioners ’ provision of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
In adapting to provide socially distanced healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian government encouraged the use of telehealth consultations in circumstances where face-to-face consultations could be avoided. For nurse practitioners, four telephone and four telehealth Medicare Benefit Schedule items were established. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - November 9, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Jane Currie, Julia Charalambous, Suzanne Williams, Amanda Fox, Olivia Hollingdrake Source Type: research
“Only the Sufferer Knows”: Long-term problems and experiences of kidney transplant recipients: A phenomenological study
Understanding the experiences of kidney transplant recipients is important to ensure their inclusion in key strategies and future planning of renal services. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - October 14, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Deniz Ta şdemir, Büşra Nur Temür, Nilgün Aksoy Tags: Research paper Source Type: research
Insights into the barriers and enablers faced by nurse/midwife clinician researchers in Australia
Clinician researchers are described as health professionals who conduct research and provide clinical care. Whilst this dual expertise is common in medicine and increasingly in allied health disciplines, fewer nurses and midwives are engaged in clinician researcher roles. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - October 11, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Caitlin M. Walsh, Claire M. Rickard, Karina R. Charles, Daner Ball, Jessica A. Schults Source Type: research
Nurse –patient ratios and infection control practices: A cross-sectional study
Substantial research evidence supports the link between nurse staffing and patient outcomes. Low nurse staffing and high workloads have been linked to poor hand hygiene, ineffective equipment cleaning, and incorrect use of personal protective equipment (PPE), with potential outcomes of intravenous cannula infections, wound infections, urinary tract infections, and pneumonia. Research is limited regarding the impact of staffing models on specific infection control practices (ICP) such as wound dressing, oral hygiene, or patient education. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - October 9, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Monika Tencic, Michael Anthony Roche Tags: Research paper Source Type: research
Editorial — A ‘rural ready’ nursing workforce
Nurses are the backbone of rural healthcare in Australia. AIHW data show that, relative to population, major cities have a greater number of working health professionals compared with regional and remote areas (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2023). This trend however is reversed for nurses, with more full-time equivalent nurses per 100,000 population worki ng in rural areas compared with major cities (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2023). In practice, this means nurses are carrying a disproportionate load of the health care for rural communities. (Source: Collegian)
Source: Collegian - October 7, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Leesa Hooker, Fiona C. Burgemeister, Jane Mills Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
