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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To determine presence of clinical complications related to dysphagia and to explore their operational outcomes. ⋯ This paper highlights that poststroke complications can significantly impact on patient outcomes and operational factors such as cost of admission; therefore, poststroke care requires a multidisciplinary approach to management. Furthermore, preventing and managing complications poststroke is a key element of nursing care and has the potential to significantly reduce incidence of mortality, length of stay and cost of hospital admission.
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Intensive care nurses' experiences of caring for obese intensive care patients: A hermeneutic study.
To obtain a deeper understanding of qualified intensive care nurses' experiences of caring for obese patients in intensive care. ⋯ The results have implications for clinical practice with respect to increasing intensive care nurses' awareness of their attitudes and beliefs towards obese intensive care patients and to improve the education of these nurses.
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To explore Iranian nurses' perceptions of and experiences with the antecedents and consequences of workplace violence perpetrated by patients, patients' relatives, colleagues and superiors. ⋯ Identifying factors, which lead to workplace violence, could help facilitate documenting and reporting such incidents as well as developing the necessary interventions to reduce them. Furthermore, native instruments must be developed to predict and monitor violence.
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Review Meta Analysis
The nurse's role in palliative care: A qualitative meta-synthesis.
To explore how nurses, across various health systems, describe their role in providing palliative care for patients with life-threatening illnesses. ⋯ Nurses need knowledge and training, guidance and support to fulfil their role.