Journal of clinical nursing
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To identify the relationship between emergency nurses' intention to leave the hospital and their coping methods following workplace violence. ⋯ Nurse managers should begin providing emergency nurses with useful information to guide their management of violence experiences. Nurse managers should also encourage nurses to report violent experiences to the administrative department rather than resorting to emotion-focused coping. Nurses should be provided with the opportunity to communicate their feelings to their colleagues.
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To explore the core components that constitute nurses' preparedness in an epidemic event. ⋯ This study offers important insights for devising future strategies in enhancing nurses' preparedness and response to an epidemic event. These include recommendations on providing education and training to nurses regarding infectious diseases, fostering institutional assistance and support in an outbreak and revising government policies and planning.
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Comparative Study
Implementing a pain management nursing protocol for orthopaedic surgical patients: Results from a PAIN OUT project.
To investigate the effect of introducing a standardised pain management nursing protocol in orthopaedic patients undergoing surgery. ⋯ It was feasible to develop and implement a standardised pain management nursing protocol and use it in the clinical routine. The intervention had an effect on changing some features of care, with an improvement in patient-reported outcomes. Support by leaders and medical team facilitated the process of the implementation.
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To appraise and synthesise empirical studies examining sources of occupational stress and ways of coping utilised by nurse managers when dealing with stress. ⋯ Hospital and nurse administrators play an important role in promoting supportive structures for daily professional practice for nurse managers through staffing, organisational resources, support services, leadership and stress management training.
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Multicenter Study
Nurses' concerns about caring for patients with acute and chronic traumatic brain injury.
As a first step in developing traumatic brain injury-specific nursing education, the purpose of this study was to investigate nurses' concerns about caring for patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury. ⋯ Findings have implications for education of nurses and development of nursing guidelines for management of patients with traumatic brain injury, including providing direction for nurses on development of care plans for patients in the chronic phase after a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury.