Journal of clinical nursing
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End-of-life and bereavement care is an important consideration in intensive care. This study describes the type of bereavement care provided in intensive care units across Australia and New Zealand. ⋯ Nurses remain committed to supporting bereaved families during and following death in intensive care. With limited resource to support bereavement care, intensive care nurses undertake a range of bereavement care practices at time of death, and after death through family bereavement follow-up.
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To gain knowledge about nurses' comfort level in assessing spiritual matters and to learn what questions nurses use in practice related to spiritual assessment. ⋯ By fostering a culture where patients' spirituality is discussed and reflected upon in everyday practice and in continued education, nurses' sense of preparedness, and thus their level of comfort, can increase. Clinical supervision and interprofessional collaboration with hospital chaplains and/or other spiritual leaders can facilitate tailor spiritual assessment of patients based on patient concerns and view of life.
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To explore and describe the experiences of adolescents and their parents living with type 1 diabetes, to identify their needs for support to improve adolescents' self-management skills in the transition from child- to adulthood. ⋯ Healthcare providers should address the parties' challenges and concerns living with type 1 diabetes to diminish worries about future including fear of hypoglycaemia, the burden of type 1 diabetes and the feeling of being incompetent in diabetes self-management. It is important to focus on supporting both adolescents and their parents, and to provide a shared platform for communication.
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To explore how patients undergoing spine surgery participated in postoperative pain assessment in a recovery unit. ⋯ Results indicate that patient perceptions of numerical rating scale and variation in patients' ability to communicate in the initial postoperative period should be given more attention to underpin patients' pain assessment. This may be a key factor in ensuring patient participation in pain assessment and thereby improving postoperative pain management.
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Multicenter Study
Work-related fear and the threats of fear among emergency department nursing staff and physicians in Finland.
To describe fear, the threats causing fear and the occurrence of fear among emergency department nursing staff and physicians. ⋯ The data obtained from this study can be utilised in identifying and describing work-related fear and threats of fear among emergency department nursing staff and physicians. Based on the information herein, it will be possible to develop methods to prevent situations that cause fear in emergency departments.