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The relationship between clinical dishonesty and perceived clinical stress among nursing students in southeast of Iran

Clinical dishonesty is a complex problem that threatens the health and safety of patients. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between clinical dishonesty and perceived clinical stress in nursing ...

Authors: Foozieh Rafati, Behnaz Bagherian, Parvin Mangolian shahrbabaki and Zahra Imani Goghary

Telephonic nursing intervention for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and hernia repair: A randomized controlled study

Patient undergoing surgery may be afraid and concerned about the diagnosis, the treatment, the procedure, the postoperative care, and the surgical recovery. Good communication between staff and patients can mi...

Authors: Renata da Silva Schulz, Rosimere Ferreira Santana, Carla Targino Bruno dos Santos, Thiago Batista Faleiro, Dayana Medeiros do Amaral Passarelles, Ana Beatriz Serra Hercules and Thalita Gomes do Carmo

The nurse anesthetist perioperative dialog

In the perioperative dialogue, pre-, intra- and postoperatively, the patient shares their history. In the dialogue, the nurse anesthetist (NA) gets to witness the patient’s experiences and can alleviate the pa...

Authors: Anna Abelsson and Annette Nygårdh

Association between registered nurse staffing levels and in-hospital mortality in craniotomy patients using Korean National Health Insurance data

The level of registered nurse (RN) staffing is a fundamental factor influencing patient safety. Craniotomy patients need intensive care after surgery, the majority of which is provided by RNs.

Authors: Yunmi Kim, Se Young Kim and Kyounga Lee

Influence of nurse and midwife managerial leadership styles on job satisfaction, intention to stay, and services provision in selected hospitals of Rwanda

Nurses and midwives are a critical part of the healthcare team and make up the largest section of health professionals. Leadership styles are believed to be an important determinant of job satisfaction and ret...

Authors: Anaclet Ngabonzima, Domina Asingizwe and Kyriakos Kouveliotis

Evaluation of a co-produced delirium awareness programme for undergraduate nursing students in Northern Ireland: a pre-test/post-test study

Delirium is recognised internationally as a common disorder that causes acute deterioration in a person’s cognitive abilities. Healthcare professionals play a key role in the early identification and managemen...

Authors: Gary Mitchell, Clare McVeigh, Susan Carlisle and Christine Brown-Wilson

Inter-professional collaboration of nurses and midwives with physicians and associated factors in Jimma University specialized teaching hospital, Jimma, south West Ethiopia, 2019: cross sectional study

Inter-professional collaboration between professionals is crucial in health care where most of the activities are undertaken in a team. One of these collaborations is the collaboration of nurses and midwives w...

Authors: Eneyew Melkamu, Solomon Woldemariam and Abera Haftu

Enhancing independent eating among older adults with dementia: a scoping review of the state of the conceptual and research literature

Addressing eating difficulties among older individuals with dementia living in nursing homes requires evidence-based interventions. However, to date, there is limited evidence of effective interventions design...

Authors: Alvisa Palese, Valentina Bressan, Mark Hayter and Roger Watson

Magnitude and associated factors of needle stick and sharps injuries among health care workers in Dessie City Hospitals, north east Ethiopia

Work-related exposures to needle stick and sharps accidents are essential reason of infections with blood borne pathogens amongst health care employees and can cause extensive fitness consequences and psycholo...

Authors: Solomon Assen, Mamo Wubshet, Manay Kifle, Tewelde Wubayehu and Berihu Gidey Aregawi

What implies registered nurses’ leadership close to older adults in municipal home health care? A systematic review

Registered nurses are key figures in municipal home health care for older adults. Thus, registered nurses’ leadership is crucial to a successful and preventive care process as well as a supportive organization...

Authors: Maria Claesson, Lise-Lotte Jonasson, Elisabeth Lindberg and Karin Josefsson

Development and testing of a new electronic foot health promotion programme on nurses’ foot self-care

Nurses form the largest professional group in health care, and they spend most of their working day on their feet. From the perspective of work well-being, healthy feet are important to tolerate the physical d...

Authors: Minna Stolt, Jouko Katajisto, Johanna Peltonen, Riitta Suhonen and Helena Leino-Kilpi

Distinctive nursing practices in working with mothers to care for hospitalised children at a district hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a descriptive observational study

The presence of family members and their active involvement in caring for hospitalised children is an established practice in many African paediatric settings, with family members often regarded as a resource....

Authors: Natasha North, Angela Leonard, Candice Bonaconsa, Thobeka Duma and Minette Coetzee

Nurses´ perceptions of automated dispensing cabinets – an observational study and an online survey

Thirty-two automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) were introduced in May 2015 in Kuopio University Hospital, Finland. These medication distribution systems represent relatively new technology in Europe and are a...

Authors: Riikka Metsämuuronen, Hannu Kokki, Toivo Naaranlahti, Minna Kurttila and Reeta Heikkilä

Determinants of depression among nursing students in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis

Nursing students are highly susceptible to depression given the heavy workload and clinical demands of the curriculum. Depression has negative impacts on their health and academic performance. This study aimed...

Authors: Tsi Njim, Clarence Mbanga, Dave Mouemba, Haman Makebe, Louise Toukam, Belmond Kika and Isabelle Mulango

Relationship between night shift work, eating habits and BMI among nurses in Lebanon

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the relationships between night shift work, eating habits and body mass index (BMI) among Lebanese nurses.

Authors: Zeinab Samhat, Randa Attieh and Yonna Sacre

Association between organizational citizenship behavior and patient safety culture from nurses’ perspectives: a descriptive correlational study

Nurses play a key role in providing patient safety. It is known that patient safety requires the improvement of patient safety culture, which can be a difficult process. One of the current challenges of hospit...

Authors: Marzyeh Jafarpanah and Behrooz Rezaei

Hospital survey on patient safety culture (HSOPSC): a multi-method approach for target-language instrument translation, adaptation, and validation to improve the equivalence of meaning for cross-cultural research

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) is widely utilized in multiple languages across the world. Despite culture and language variations, research studies from Latin America use the Spanish la...

Authors: Patrick A. Palmieri, Juan M. Leyva-Moral, Doriam E. Camacho-Rodriguez, Nina Granel-Gimenez, Eric W. Ford, Kathleen M. Mathieson and Joan S. Leafman

Health literacy, digital literacy and eHealth literacy in Danish nursing students at entry and graduate level: a cross sectional study

The increasing number of people living with one or more chronic conditions imposes a growing demand on healthcare providers. One way to handle this challenge is by re-orientating the way care is provided, empo...

Authors: Kamila Adellund Holt, Dorthe Overgaard, Lisbeth Vinberg Engel and Lars Kayser

Psychometric properties of the intensive care delirium screening checklist when used by bedside nurses in clinical practice: a prospective descriptive study

The Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) demonstrates good psychometric characteristics in research settings. However, evidence about these characteristics in pragmatic ICU settings is inconsist...

Authors: Elke Detroyer, Annick Timmermans, Dana Segers, Geert Meyfroidt, Jasperina Dubois, Aimé Van Assche, Etienne Joosten and Koen Milisen

Qualitative study of socio-cultural challenges in the nursing profession in Pakistan

In a patriarchal social system, a women-dominated profession like nursing is mostly seen as a disempowered group due to its stereotypical image and negative connotations. The low social prestige of this profes...

Authors: Sidra Abbas, Rubeena Zakar and Florian Fischer

Caring behavior and associated factors among nurses working in Jimma University specialized hospital, Oromia, Southwest Ethiopia, 2019

Nursing care behavior and nurse’s perception of effective care behavior is an act, conduct, and mannerism enacted by professional nurses that convey concern, safety, and attention to the patient. Behavior asso...

Authors: Adugna Oluma and Muktar Abadiga

Public health nursing education viewed through the lens of superdiversity: a resource for global health

Nurses are increasingly confronted with the challenge of globalization and the acceleration of migratory flows. This reality affects the notion of culture and its influence on health-related behaviors. The sta...

Authors: Cécile-Marie Dupin, Mélanie Pinon, Karine Jaggi, Celina Teixera, Aurèle Sagne and Noelia Delicado

Association between the bed-to-nurse ratio and 30-day post-discharge mortality in patients undergoing surgery: a cross-sectional analysis using Korean administrative data

The likelihood of inpatient mortality has been found to be reduced by increased nurse staffing in several settings, including general wards, emergency departments, and intensive care units. However, less resea...

Authors: Yunmi Kim, Hyun-Young Kim and Eunyoung Cho

Evaluating the effectiveness and feasibility of nurse-led distant and face-to-face interviews programs for promoting behavioral change and disease management in patients with diabetic nephropathy: a triangulation approach

We examined whether telecommunication-device-based distance interviews are inferior to face-to-face interviews in terms of facilitating behavioral changes and disease management in patients with diabetic nephr...

Authors: Kana Kazawa, Kanae Osaki, Md Moshiur Rahman and Michiko Moriyama

Association between ethical leadership, ethical climate and organizational citizenship behavior from nurses’ perspective: a descriptive correlational study

Ethical leadership plays an important role in improving the organizational climate and may be have an effect on citizenship behavior. Despite the growing emphasis on ethics in organizations, little attention t...

Authors: Soudabeh Aloustani, Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, Mansoureh Zagheri-Tafreshi, Maliheh Nasiri, Maasoumeh Barkhordari-Sharifabad and Victoria Skerrett

Process evaluation of the response of nursing homes to the implementation of the dementia-specific case conference concept WELCOME-IdA: A qualitative study

The implementation of clearly structured dementia-specific case conferences could be an important tool to enable nursing staff to properly analyse and manage challenging behaviour in nursing home residents wit...

Authors: Daniela Holle, Sonja Teupen, Rabea Graf, Rene Müller-Widmer, Sven Reuther, Margareta Halek and Martina Roes

Development and initial validation of an instrument to measure novice nurses’ perceived ability to provide care in acute situations – PCAS

Novice nurses need to be better prepared to provide care in acute situations. There is currently no validated scale specifically measuring nurses’ perception of their ability to provide care in acute situation...

Authors: Anders Sterner, Emma Säfström, Lina Palmér, Nerrolyn Ramstrand and Magnus Andersson Hagiwara

The rocks and hard places of MAiD: a qualitative study of nursing practice in the context of legislated assisted death

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada in June, 2016. The Canadian government’s decision to legislate assisted dying, an approach that requires a high degree of obligation, precision, and d...

Authors: Barbara Pesut, Sally Thorne, Catharine J. Schiller, Madeleine Greig and Josette Roussel

Assessing the effects of the nursing education reform on the educational environment in Tajikistan: a repeated cross-sectional analysis

A well-functioning education system for family nurses is a priority of the primary health care reform in Tajikistan. In 2015/2016, a baseline study was carried out to measure the educational environment at two...

Authors: Filippo Lechthaler, Michele Arigoni, Mohira Khamidova, Dilbar Davlyatova, Helen Prytherch and Kaspar Wyss

The effect of education around ethical principles on nurses’ perception to patient safety culture in an Iranian mental health inpatient unit: a pilot study

Patient safety is a crucial factor in the provision of quality healthcare and is therefore a global health concern. It is an area in which ethical concerns and high-quality clinical practice are inextricably l...

Authors: Behzad Razzani, Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, Tayebeh Jamshidi, Maasoumeh Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Zahra Lotfi and Victoria Skerrett

Designing a multifaceted telehealth intervention for a rural population using a model for developing complex interventions in nursing

Telehealth interventions offer an evidenced-based approach to providing cost-effective care, education, and timely communication at a distance. Yet, despite its widespread use, telehealth has not reached full ...

Authors: Stephen M. Davis, Amanda Jones, Margaret E. Jaynes, Kori N. Woodrum, Marcus Canaday, Lindsay Allen and Jennifer A. Mallow

Varicose veins and its risk factors among nurses at Dhulikhel hospital: a cross sectional study

Women in nursing professions are at high risk for developing varicose veins as it requires physical work and prolonged standing. The aim of the study is to estimate the current prevalence of varicose veins amo...

Authors: Regan Shakya, Robin Man Karmacharya, Rojina Shrestha and Archana Shrestha

Linguistic-cultural validation of the oral health assessment tool (OHAT) for the Italian context

The increase in the ageing population and the consequent establishment of a network of adequate structures to respond effectively to the welfare needs of institutionalized elderly people have stimulated the di...

Authors: Stefano Finotto, Giorgia Bertolini, Riccarda Camellini, Rita Fantelli, Debora Formisano, Maria Grazia Macchioni and Daniela Mecugni

A mixed methods quality improvement study to implement nurse practitioner roles and improve care for residents in long-term care facilities

To better meet long-term care (LTC) residents’ (patients in LTC) needs, nurse practitioners (NPs) were proposed as part of a quality improvement initiative. No research has been conducted in LTC in Québec Cana...

Authors: Kelley Kilpatrick, Éric Tchouaket, Mira Jabbour and Sylvie Hains

Management of constipation in long-term care hospitals and its ward manager and organization factors

Studies examining organizational factors that may influence constipation management in long-term care (LTC) hospitals are lacking. This study aimed to clarify the practice of constipation management in LTC hos...

Authors: Manami Takaoka, Ayumi Igarashi, Asako Futami and Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani

Medication administration errors and contributing factors among nurses: a cross sectional study in tertiary hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Unsafe medication practices are the leading causes of avoidable patient harm in healthcare systems across the world. The largest proportion of which occurs during medication administration. Nurses play a signi...

Authors: Adam Wondmieneh, Wudma Alemu, Niguse Tadele and Asmamaw Demis

On-site clinical mentoring as a maternal and new-born care quality improvement method: evidence from a nurse cohort study in Nepal

We describe an on-site clinical mentoring program aimed at improving emergency obstetrical and new-born care (EmONC) in Nepal and assess its effectiveness on nurses’ knowledge and skills. In Nepal, both the ma...

Authors: Sophie Goyet, Swaraj Rajbhandari, Valerie Broch Alvarez, Aida Bayou, Sirjana Khanal and Tara Nath Pokhrel

Bioscience learning in nursing: a cross-sectional survey of beginning nursing students in Norway

Taking bioscience courses such as anatomy and physiology (A&P) is important for the development of nursing competence, but learning such subjects is also a challenge for many students. Nursing students’ motiva...

Authors: Aud Emelie Evensen, Hildfrid Vikkelsmoe Brataas and Guanglin Cui

Advanced practice nurses in primary care in Switzerland: an analysis of interprofessional collaboration

The increase in the number of chronically ill patients due to ageing is calling existing models of primary care (PC) into question. New care models have recently been implemented in Swiss PC and involve interp...

Authors: Renata Josi, Monica Bianchi and Sophie Karoline Brandt

Evaluation of the Korean version of the self-assessment of nursing informatics competencies scale

In order to assess nursing students’ informatics competency, we need a comprehensive Korean version scale that reflects the important advances in nursing informatics and can make up for the lack of an existing...

Authors: Kyoungsan Seo, Yul Ha Min, Seung-Hye Choi and Haeyoung Lee

“How do we use the time?” – an observational study measuring the task time distribution of nurses in psychiatric care

The nurse’s primary task in psychiatric care should be to plan for the patient’s care in cooperation with the patient and spend the time needed to build a relationship. Psychiatric care nurses however claim th...

Authors: Andreas Glantz, Karin Örmon and Boel Sandström

“Guarding their practice”: a descriptive study of Canadian nursing policies and education related to medical cannabis

In Canada, federal regulations allow Nurse Practitioners (NPs) to authorize medical cannabis. Nursing regulatory bodies, however, have been hesitant to include medical cannabis within NPs’ scope of practice. A...

Authors: Lynda G. Balneaves and Abeer A. Alraja

Opportunities and challenges of integrating genetics education about human diversity into public health nurses’ responsibilities in Japan

Many genetic tests are now available due to evolution by the Human Genome Project. However, the growing use of genetic testing and screening may not only lead to improvements in public health and health promot...

Authors: Hiromi Goda, Hiromi Kawasaki, Yuko Masuoka, Natsu Kohama and Md Moshiur Rahman

Misconceptions about traumatic brain injury among nursing students in India: implications for nursing care and curriculum

Despite the devastating consequences of Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), TBI misconceptions are common among healthcare professionals. As an essential member of multi-professional team providing TBI care, it i...

Authors: Jothimani Gurusamy, Sailaxmi Gandhi, Senthil Amudhan, Kathyayani B. Veerabhadraiah, Padmavathi Narayanasamy, Sunitha T. Sreenivasan and Marimuthu Palaniappan

Exploring the experiences of being an ethnic minority student within undergraduate nurse education: a qualitative study

Students studying in a country where another language is spoken face multiple challenges including their ability to fully integrate with peers and academic pressures in trying to obtain an undergraduate nursin...

Authors: Sylvi Monika Flateland, Maxine Pryce-Miller, Anne Valen-Sendstad Skisland, Anne Flaatten Tønsberg and Ulrika Söderhamn

Conference Abstracts: European Academy of Nursing Science Summer Conference 2019

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Benchmarking nurse outcomes in Australian Magnet® hospitals: cross-sectional survey

Positive reports of nursing-related outcomes such as quality nursing care, nursing engagement with work and good practice environment are crucial in attaining and maintaining Magnet® designation. The majority ...

Authors: L. Stone, M. Arneil, L. Coventry, V. Casey, S. Moss, A. Cavadino, B. Laing and AL McCarthy

Barriers to nurse–patient communication in Saudi Arabia: an integrative review

Effective nurse–patient communication is important in improving quality of health care. However, there are several barriers to nurse–patient communication in Saudi Arabia. This is attributed to the increasing ...

Authors: Mukhlid Alshammari, Jed Duff and Michelle Guilhermino

Assessment of knowledge and practice of nurses on initial management of acute poisoning in Dessie referral hospital Amhara region, Ethiopia, 2018

Poisoning is a major health problem worldwide, and it causes significant morbidity and mortality. It is estimated that 350,000 people died worldwide from unintentional poisoning. The purpose of this study is t...

Authors: Ayele Mamo Abebe, Mesfin Wudu Kassaw and Nathan Estifanos Shewangashaw

Critical nursing and health care aide behaviors in care of the nursing home resident dying with dementia

With the aging of the population, dying with dementia will become one of the most common ways in which older adults will end their final years of life, particularly for those living in a nursing home. Though i...

Authors: Genevieve N. Thompson and Susan E. McClement