Journal of clinical nursing
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To explore patients' perspectives of bedside handover by nurses in the emergency department (ED). ⋯ From the patients' perspective, nursing handover that is performed at the bedside enhances the quality and continuum of care and maintains privacy and confidentiality of information. Nurses should use discretion when dealing with sensitive or new patient information.
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To better understand chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients' informational needs and associated factors using the Predisposing, Reinforcing and Enabling Causes in Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation model. ⋯ Healthcare professionals need to be sensitive to the fact that treatment-related information was not the top priority of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Healthcare professionals also need to target the special subpopulation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with greater total informational need to maximise educational impact.