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Evaluating the impact of nurse practitioner involvement in a pleural procedures clinic

The addition of NPs in PPC increased the clinic capacity. In the second 6-month period, 5.86 patients were seen per clinic compared with 4.57 in the first 6-month period (Table 1). A one sided t-test...

Influences on childhood immunisation decision-making in London's Gypsy and Traveller communities

The authors employed a qualitative methodological approach because this was an initial exploratory study with the aim of discovering new insights or themes about childhood immunisations in a...

What barriers prevent health professionals screening women for domestic abuse? A literature review

‘The term “domestic violence and abuse” is used to mean any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling behaviour, coercive behaviour or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those...

Coping among adolescents with long-term health conditions: a mixed-methods study

Adolescents spend most of their time at home and school. It is important to understand how adolescents cope with their illnesses in these two settings. This study investigated the coping strategies...

Interventions to improve inpatients' sleep quality in intensive care units and acute wards: a literature review

A systematic review method was used to examine previously published literature on the topic of sleep promotion and sleep quality. This method of study was chosen because it is a rigorous and valid...

Through the looking glass: the rabbit hole of reflective practice

In the ambiguous clinical context where act or omission can have potentially devastating consequences, there is a heavy price to pay for being unskilled and unaware of it (Kim et al, 2015). Inspired...

Preregistration adult nursing students' experiences of online learning: a qualitative study

Purposive sampling was adopted for this study to ensure participants had a similar amount of experience of OL and to create a homogenous group. The inclusion criteria were that participants had to be...

Haemodialysis patients' experience with fatigue: a phenomenological study

The present qualitative-phenomenological study was performed to investigate haemodialysis patients' experience with fatigue. The authors hope that the results of this study lead the reader to a deeper...

Caring for older people with dementia in the emergency department

Three systematic reviews examined what clinical interventions were effective for older people with dementia or cognitive impairment in EDs and whether ED culture and context had an impact on their...

Changing preceptorship to achieve better quality training and less attrition in newly qualified nurses

Nursing workforce retention has become a key issue for the health service and has been compounded by external factors such as Brexit and the scrapping of bursaries for nursing students (Buchan, 2019)....

The scope and variance of clinical nurse specialist job descriptions

The UK experience is not unique. A CNS may be integral to many patients' care pathways, although there is little uniformity in the evolution of nursing specialties with respect to role titles, scope...

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