Showing papers in "International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2015"

TL;DR: Burnout rates in emergency nurses are high and job demands, job control, social support and exposure to traumatic events are determinants of burnout, as well as several organizational variables.

TL;DR: Key limitations of the science include the threat of common method/source bias, a lack of transparency regarding the use of combined samples and secondary analysis, inconsistency in the reporting format for unfinished care prevalence, and a paucity of intervention studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated burnout levels in a group of nurses and identified the variables related to burnout and proposed a risk profile for this syndrome among the nursing personnel.

TL;DR: A set of statistical reporting guidelines suitable for medical journals to include in their Instructions for Authors tell authors, journal editors, and reviewers how to report basic statistical methods and results.

TL;DR: Although the cost to provide pressure ulcer prevention to patients at risk can importantly impact health care services' budgets, the costs to treat a severe pressure ulcers were found to be substantially higher.

TL;DR: Although most preventive strategies at the workplace are focused on ergonomic risk factors, improving the psychosocial work environment might have an impact on reducing MSDs.

TL;DR: Constant opportunity for effective, frequent, informal shared communication emerged as the overarching theme and most critical factor in achieving and sustaining effective interprofessional collaboration and interprofessional collaborative practice in this review.

TL;DR: Simple interventions aiming to improve staff relationships with patients can reduce the frequency of conflict and containment in acute psychiatric wards.

TL;DR: The evidence suggests that transition interventions/strategies do lead to improvements in confidence and competence, job satisfaction, critical thinking and reductions in stress and anxiety for the newly qualified nurse.

TL;DR: This work aims to provide an overview of education, tasks and remuneration of nurses and other primary care team members in six OECD countries using a framework of team organization across the care continuum to inspire policy makers and researchers to work on efficient and effective teams care models worldwide.

TL;DR: Nursing staffing, nurse work environments, and percentages of nurses having Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree in South Korea are associated with patient mortality, and improving hospital nurse staffing and work environments and increasing the percentages of Nurses having PhDs in nursing Degree would help reduce the number of preventable in-hospital deaths.

TL;DR: An update of results regarding an novative critical appraisal tool, called the ‘Mixed ethods Appraisal Tool’ (MMAT), which were published two papers in the International Journal of Nursing udies, and a need for additional supporting evidence for the MMAT.

TL;DR: Frailty is a prevalent and critical geriatric syndrome associated with decreased survival in older adults and through geriatric assessment of frailty, essential information pertaining to mortality among older adults can be obtained.

TL;DR: Authentic leaders may play an important role in creating positive working conditions and strengthening new nurses' confidence that help them cope with job demands, thereby protecting them from developing burnout and poor mental health.

TL;DR: This systematic review has shown that emergency nurse practitioner service has a positive impact on quality of care, patient satisfaction and waiting times and suggests that further high quality research is required for comparative measures of clinical and service effectiveness of emergency nurse practitioners service.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature on relationships between characteristics of the nurse work environment and five nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in hospitals is presented in this paper, where the authors found that nurse staffing was inversely related to patient falls; more favorable staffing hours were associated with fewer fall incidents.

TL;DR: Investigating patients' and nurses' perceptions of and behaviours towards patient participation in nursing care in the context of hospital medical wards found Challenging factors for patient participation include patients' willingness, nurses' approach and confusion around expectations and roles.

TL;DR: Midwives may experience aspects of their work as traumatic and, as a consequence, experience posttraumatic stress symptomatology at clinical levels, which holds important implications for both midwives' personal and professional wellbeing and the wellbeing of the workforce.

TL;DR: Preliminary support was found for a model showing that manager job strain contributes to burnout, reduced organizational commitment and higher turnover intentions, and suggest that organizations need to monitor and addressManager job strain by ensuring managers' role demands are reasonable and that they have the requisite decision latitude to balance role demands.

TL;DR: A positive finding suggests that acupressure may have a role in promoting psychological wellbeing of patients, and will improve patients' quality of life, and reduce negative outcomes associated with psychological illnesses and distress experienced by patients with hemodialysis.

TL;DR: It was revealed that while there were gender differences in the experience with infertility in many realms, both men and women were subject to a stressful married life and a supportive intervention, focusing on enhancing a sense of partnership among infertile couples is a way of helping them to cope.

TL;DR: It was found that a 45% catheter to vein ratio was the optimal cut off with high sensitivity and specificity to reduce the risk of VTE.

TL;DR: The empirical studies investigated addressed the relationship between patient and nurse, knowledge, contact time with the patient, severity of illness and the effect of age on the degree of patient involvement.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that lifestyle behaviors and other risk factors of overweight Latina women may be improved through a promotora-led lifestyle behavior intervention.

TL;DR: There is minimal evidence from RCTs of the benefits or harms of patient diaries for patients and their caregivers or family members, and there is currently inadequate evidence to support their effectiveness in improving psychological recovery after critical illness.

TL;DR: Type of violence (i.e. physical aggression) is especially related to high anxiety levels and frequency of verbal aggression is associated with burnout (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization), which should be made available to professional staff who have been subjected to physical aggression or frequent verbal violence.

TL;DR: Because higher comorbidity weakens the strength of the relationship between self-efficacy and self-care maintenance, tailoring interventions aimed at improving self- efficacy to different levels of comor bidity may be key to impacting hospitalization and quality of life.

TL;DR: End-of-life care in China reflects and has been influenced by the traditional Chinese culture and nurses suffered emotional distress when caring for dying cancer patients, but these experiences helped them to reflect on the meaning of death and life, and positively influenced their daily lives, attitudes and behaviors toward caring for the dying.

TL;DR: Three distinct archetypes of dyadic contributions to heart failure care were observed that represent a gradient in the level of contributions to self-care, in addition to different approaches to working together to manage heart failure.

TL;DR: A revised measurement taxonomy is presented that builds upon COSMIN to explore the extent to which the new measurement concepts have played a role in psychometric assessments in nursing and to describe emerging ideas relating to the development and testing of new measures in health fields.