International nursing review
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The 2008 financial crisis exacerbated an already mounting workforce challenge faced by most health services in the western world, namely the recruitment and retention of qualified nurses. ⋯ Policy makers and service providers should focus on the retention of trained older nurses as an important element of workforce planning.
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This descriptive correlational study aimed to identify nurses' perceptions of their own disaster preparedness and core competencies. ⋯ Nurse managers should advocate for increasing disaster preparedness for all nurses. This could be accomplished by offering formal training in disaster preparedness and/or by scheduling regular disaster drills, perhaps using a mix of tabletop exercises with occasional hospital-wide disaster scenarios. In addition, managers should regularly evaluate nurses' disaster core competencies to achieve effective preparation plans and training.
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This paper will review progress towards the identified targets within the Australian government policy document commonly known as 'Closing the Gap' and examine the role of nurses in supporting its implementation. ⋯ Health promotion and education programmes that are led by nurses can make an impact to health disparities within groups who are most at risk.
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This study aimed to investigate the predictors of Saudi nursing students' attitudes towards the environment and sustainability in health care. ⋯ The findings of this study can support the inclusion of course contents, which deal specifically with environmental health and sustainability practices, in the creation of new policies directed towards curricular revision.
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To systematically review the existing evidence on the Indian public, patient and carers' perspectives on palliative and end-of-life care. ⋯ Nurses can be central in gathering the contextual evidence that advocate users' perspectives to inform further studies and national palliative care policies in India. Emerging policies in nursing education need to focus on integrating family-centred palliative and end-of-life care within curricula, whereas nursing practice may promote nurse-led community models to address the patchy palliative and end-of-life service provision in India.