Journal of clinical nursing
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This article explores the perceptions of new graduate nurses around their readiness for practice when faced with death and dying within the workplace, particularly in rural hospital and community nursing settings. ⋯ Graduate nurses feel they are not adequately prepared for end of life care which demonstrates the need for quality end of life care education in undergraduate nursing curricula.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The important role of positioning in nasogastric tube insertion in unconscious patients: A prospective, randomised, double-blind study.
To investigate whether positioning the body in a lateral decubitus position will facilitate nasogastric tube insertion in unconscious patients. ⋯ This study provides an effective method for nasogastric tube insertions in unconscious patients.
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Multicenter Study
Nurses' knowledge on diabetic foot ulcer disease and their attitudes towards patients affected: A cross-sectional institution-based study.
To assess nurses' knowledge on diabetic ulcer disease and their attitudes towards patients suffering from it and to identify factors which influence them. ⋯ Wound care training should be made mandatory to improve quality of care given by nurses to patients with diabetic ulcers. Continuous professional development, evidence-based practices and wound care research should be encouraged.
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To explore the incidence of delirium in cerebrovascular patients admitted in our Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit and analyse the risk factors leading to delirium. ⋯ Cerebrovascular patients in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit showed a high incidence of delirium. There are many risk factors leading to delirium, some of which are independent predictors of intensive care delirium. Patients with delirium will suffer various adverse effects upon their short-term clinical outcomes. Therefore, nurses should pay close attention to changes in a patient's mental state and learn about the risk factors associated with delirium, in order to be able to take early measures to prevent delirium.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Assessment of a short hypnosis in a paediatric operating room in reducing postoperative pain and anxiety: A randomised study.
To assess the impact of a short hypnotic session on postoperative anxiety and pain in major orthopaedic surgery. ⋯ As postoperative anxiety level was low in both control and hypnosis groups, nurse pre-operative interviews and nurse training in hypnosis may contribute to the optimisation of global management and decrease the postoperative anxiety level.