Journal of advanced nursing
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In Australian hospitals, epidural infusions are commonly used for the management of post-operative pain in maternity and surgical patients, with little research evidence to indicate the efficacy of the educational preparation of nurses undertaking pain management. ⋯ The results of this study indicated that the nurses' theoretical knowledge outweighed their clinical skill performance and clinical decision-making. Education for nurses regarding the management of epidural infusions needs to be comprehensive, context specific and have the capacity to develop the nurse's autonomous critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills. Strategies for this include self-directed learning packages best supplemented by a demonstration of clinical skills and supervised practice.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Evaluating Emergency Nurse Practitioner services: a randomized controlled trial.
Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENP) are increasingly managing minor injuries in Accident and Emergency departments across the United Kingdom. This study aimed to develop methods and tools that could be used to measure the quality of ENP-led care. These tools were then tested in a randomized controlled trial. ⋯ The study was sufficiently large to demonstrate higher levels of patient satisfaction and clinical documentation quality with ENP-led than SHO-led care. A larger study involving 769 patients in each arm would be required to detect a 2% difference in missed injury rates. The methods and tools used in this trial could be used in Accident and Emergency departments to measure the quality of ENP-led care.
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This paper reports the findings of a qualitative interpretive study that explored how people with disabilities and family members use their spiritual beliefs to establish meaning for disability, and to respond to the challenges of lived experience with disability. The participants' perceptions of the evangelical Christian church's influence on their spiritual experiences related to disability suggest recommendations for improved integration by the church. Applications are drawn for helping professionals and religious leaders who provide holistic care. ⋯ Although the study design limits the generalizability of the findings, applications can be drawn for helping professionals and religious leaders who provide holistic care
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To identify and describe palliative patients' perception of factors within the interaction with the community palliative care nurse that enhance feelings of health and well-being, and to begin to define health promotion in relation to palliative nursing in the primary care setting. ⋯ For the patients, a combination of 'new' (therapeutic) nursing and a more traditional expert-led approach resulted in the promotion of an enhanced sense of physical and psychological health and well-being, and was an integral part of community palliative care nursing. Based on the study findings, the researcher offers a definition of health promotion relevant to palliative nursing in the primary care setting, which identifies that for the patients (but with caveats related to generalizability), the practice of holistically therapeutic palliative nursing is the ideal.