Showing papers in "International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2020"

TL;DR: This systematic review emphasises that nurses’ require Governments, policy makers and nursing groups to actively engage in supporting nurses, both during and following a pandemic or epidemic.

TL;DR: This paper addresses the relations between abstraction and interpretation when selecting, condensing, and coding meaning units and creating categories and themes on various levels and argues that qualitative content analysis can be both descriptive and interpretative.

TL;DR: The study suggests that community mask use by well people could be beneficial, particularly for COVID-19, where transmission may be pre-symptomatic.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the burden of pressure injuries remains substantial with over one in ten adult patients admitted to hospitals affected, and the need to dedicate resources to prevention and treatment on pressure injuries is supported.

TL;DR: The findings reveal a serious phenomenon of the poor professional quality of life among Chinese nurses, and may provide clues to help nursing managers identify nurses' vulnerability to compassion fatigue and implement targeted strategies to reduce nurses' burnout and secondary traumatic stress, while supporting compassion satisfaction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined existing policies of selected health organization and countries on the use of masks and respirators to protect hospital health workers from COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan city in China.

TL;DR: An overview of the major approaches to assessing nurse staffing requirements is given and recent evidence is identified in order to address unanswered questions including the accuracy and effectiveness of tools.

TL;DR: Generally, e-Health based self-management programs may play a positive role in improving pain and disability within short-term period for chronic low back pain patients.

TL;DR: Building collaborative relationships with other healthcare professionals and negotiating the role are critical to the success of the implementation of the advanced nurse practitioner role.

TL;DR: Outcomes relating to psychomotor skill performance support the use of virtual reality as an educational intervention, and it appears that virtual reality leads to educational outcomes similar or superior to traditional simulated practice.

TL;DR: The current analysis indicates an overall pooled prevalence of cancer-related fatigue of 52%.

TL;DR: The evidence base for methods to support nursing staff to develop and maintain good therapeutic relationships is poor, despite this being a key aspect of the nursing role and a major contributor to positive outcomes for service users.

TL;DR: Advance care planning is acceptable for people with dementia and their carers and is associated with improved outcomes, as is research to test different approaches to ACP.

TL;DR: This study aims to observe the influence of an inclusive leadership style on psychological distress while assessing the mediating role of psychological safety in nurses by recruiting 451 on-duty registered nurses during the highly infectious phase of COVID-19.

TL;DR: Continuity of care interventions prevent short term hospital readmission in older people with chronic diseases, but there is inconclusive evidence about the effectiveness of continuity interventions aiming to reduce long term readmission.

TL;DR: The need for permission is identified as key in enabling nurses to self-care and be self-compassionate, which may facilitate them to address patients' needs.

TL;DR: A significant improvement was found in the health-related quality of life of postoperative women with breast cancer who used the WeChat-based multimodal nursing program during early rehabilitation, demonstrating that the program is an effective intervention for postoperative rehabilitation in such patients.

TL;DR: Results confirmed the hypothesis that, when nurses were satisfied with leadership, they felt less burned-out and strained in interpersonal relationships, they engaged less in misbehaviour, and, in turn, patients were more satisfied with the quality of the care provided by the nurses.

TL;DR: Positive outcomes and strong theoretical rationales for the components in the programs suggest that they are beneficial, and future high-quality research is needed to test the effectiveness of multicomponent interventions and their implementation strategies.

TL;DR: To identify critical outcome domains in the field of skin care to make trial results more comparable in the future and to measure possible performance differences between different skin care strategies and products, included studies showed substantial heterogeneity regarding design, interventions and outcomes.

TL;DR: The credibility of a widely endorsed checklist of this type, the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ), is critically reviewed by replicating the procedures that led to the consolidation of its 32 items by replicates the procedures and rationale applied in the four phases.

TL;DR: The results showed that nurses are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression symptoms than physicians, and it is necessary to develop effective control strategies at the individual, hospital and national levels to protect health care workers from workplace violence.

TL;DR: In healthier work environments, workplace violence was more strongly related to increased reports of burnout, musculoskeletal injuries, anxiety disorders and sleep disturbances compared to less healthy work environments.

TL;DR: Aromatherapy is an effective intervention for reducing preoperative anxiety in adults and short-length aromatherapy inhalation seems to be more worthy of being recommended in clinical settings.

TL;DR: Analysis of workplace bullying research among nurses with the focus on sources, antecedents, outcomes and coping responses from a cross-cultural perspective during the years 2001-2019 revealed both similarities and differences in the nurses' reports of bullying by world region.

TL;DR: The present study identifies sleep characteristics that differ between day and night nurses working 12-hour shifts using objective measurements of sleep, and biomathematical modelling can offer a novel method to estimate hours of greatest cognitive decline, and have implications for policy around shift duration, timing, and overtime allocation.

TL;DR: Efforts need to be made by influential institutions and healthcare providers to recognise sexuality in older age and give older people the opportunity to open up regarding their sexual health and experiences.

TL;DR: Future breastfeeding educational programs incorporating the theories of breastfeeding self-efficacy and planned behavior would be helpful in promoting sustained breastfeeding practices among mothers.