Journal of clinical nursing
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Multicenter Study
Prerequisites for safe intraoperative nursing care and teamwork-Operating theatre nurses' perspectives: A qualitative interview study.
To describe operating theatre nurses' experience of preconditions for safe intraoperative nursing care and teamwork. ⋯ The operating theatre nurses need a reliable preoperative overall picture in advance, to be able to be well prepared for the patients' surgery. The overall picture should be based on adequate data about the patients' health status and needs, details about the surgical intervention and prescriptions.
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To explore the current evidence of nurses caring for people with intellectual disability and dementia who experience pain. ⋯ Pain assessment tools for people with intellectual disability and dementia need to include behavioural elements, and baseline assessments are required to identify changes in presentation. Nurses need to recognise and respond to pain based on the evidence in order to deliver quality care.
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To examine how experienced registered nurses in direct patient care learn within the constantly changing contemporary healthcare environment. The key objectives were to examine educational interactions amongst workplace, nurse and nursing practice, with a focus on the influence of context. ⋯ Attending to the processes and catalysts for nurses' workplace learning will contribute to excellent patient care.
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To assess the quality of self-assessment and the attitude of healthcare workers (HCWs) to hand hygiene (HH) as possible factors of unsatisfactory HH compliance in clinical practice. ⋯ A reasonable objective level of self-assessment and attitude to HH are the most important conditions for preventing of HAI in patients.
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Observational Study
Nurse understaffing is associated with adverse events in postanaesthesia care unit patients.
To investigate the associations between nurse staffing and the incidence and severity of hypoxaemia, arterial hypotension and bradycardia of postoperative patients during their postanaesthesia care unit stay. ⋯ Higher incidence of hypoxaemia and arterial hypotension advocates for the prevention of imbalances between patient number and care demands and the number of available nurses.