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Medication adherence is a key factor of the therapy of chronic diseases in older people with chronic diseases. Inadequate health literacy results in poor health outcomes. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of health literacy on medication adherence to provide information for improving health outcomes in older people with chronic disease. This was a cross-sectional study...
Self-efficacy related to self-care behaviors in people with type 2 diabetes has been well reported. However no work has been reported in Turkey that uses reliable instruments to examine the relationships among self-care activities, depression and self-efficacy.This study aims to investigate self-care activities, depression and self-efficacy among people with type 2 diabetes in Turkey.The sample included...
The aim of this review was to explore factors which facilitate or inhibit undergraduate nursing students’ willingness to demonstrate moral courage when confronted by poor patient care.Included papers were those that met the criteria of being qualitative research that explored undergraduate nursing students’ depictions of situations where moral courage was or was not demonstrated during clinical placements,...
Clinical practices are based on a common understanding of nursing's professional standards in all aspects of patient care, no matter what the circumstances are. Circumstances can however, change dramatically due to emergencies, disasters, or pandemics and may make it difficult to meet the standard of care in the way nurses are accustomed. The Australian nursing profession has not yet facilitated a...
Bioscience has a long history of being challenging to teach and learn within nursing courses and little has been published on new ways to assist students in their learning. The aim of this study was to determine which of three different interventions would assist student performance in a nursing bioscience unit.To begin, the contribution of recent prior learning in science was investigated by comparing...
Effective nursing teamwork is an essential component of quality health care and patient safety. Understanding which factors foster team work ensures teamwork qualities are cultivated and sustained.This study aims to investigate which factors are associated with team work in an Australian acute care tertiary hospital across all inpatient and outpatient settings.All nurses and midwives rostered to inpatient...
Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach (Charmaz, 2006), this research examined the social construct of the “professional boundary” necessary in mental health therapeutic work and the problem of professional boundary violations in the therapeutic relationship. Thirteen mental health clinicians from various professional disciplines commonly found in mental health clinical practice responded...
The concept of mental health recovery promotes collaborative partnership among consumers, carers and service providers. However views on mental health recovery are less explored among carers and service providers. The aim of this review was to analyse contemporary literature exploring views of mental health consumers, carers and service providers in relation to their understanding of the meaning of...
Effective communication is essential in developing rapport with patients, and many nursing roles such as patient assessment, education, and counselling consist only of dialogue. With increasing cultural diversity among nurses and patients in Australia, there are growing concerns relating to the potential for miscommunication, as differences in language and culture can cause misunderstandings which...
To examine the link between medication use and the risk of bleeding complications following transurethral resection of the prostate from the second postoperative day until hospital discharge.Using a retrospective observational study design, the medical records of all patients who underwent transurethral resection of the prostate over a 24-month period were examined. Comprehensive data regarding patients’...
This paper introduces the concept of compassion literacy and discusses its place in nursing within the general practice setting. Compassion literacy is a valuable competency for sustaining the delivery of high quality care. Being compassion literate enables practice nurses to provide compassionate care to their patients and to recognise factors that may constrain this. A compassion literate practice...
Simulation is recognised as a safe and effective way to teach nursing. Mask-Ed™ is a new and innovative simulation technique. It involves the use of a masked educator who portrays an authentic character with a history that serves as a platform for learning and teaching. This technique has been introduced in several nursing curricula throughout Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States of America...
To explore graduating registered and enrolled nurses’ perceptions of what roles they were educationally prepared for and what their roles would include.Defining nursing roles can be challenging, with studies from many countries identifying role confusion and overlap as issues with employing two levels of nurse. Australia has two levels of nurse registered for entry to practice; registered and enrolled...
It is widely recognised, that the caregiver role creates a physical and emotional strain on family members during health adversity. Therefore, family assessment is considered a crucial step in determining appropriate support and guidance required for both patient and family within the oncology setting. Despite this, little is known about the family assessment practices of oncology nurses in the Australian...
Confronted with data about the rising incidence of diabetes in Indonesia, and the recognition that no national programmes for diabetes education are in place, we conducted a search to identify effective western models of health education that could be considered for implementation in Indonesia. In this paper we report on the findings from the search, and share cultural considerations that would need...
Pressure injuries impact both patients and healthcare organisations. Implementing pressure injury prevention strategies reflects current clinical practice guidelines, but in Australia, evidence on the factors that predict the implementation of these strategies is lacking.To determine the patient, clinical and contextual factors that predict the implementation of pressure injury prevention strategies...
To describe what Australian and New Zealand graduates said about the Nurse Entry to Practice program.The Nurse Entry to Practice is a structured programme that offers professional and educational support for graduate nurses in their first year of practice.The qualitative research described and reported herein constitutes a sub-study of the Graduate e-Cohort Study. This qualitative sub-study describes...
Hospital facilities that can support the well-being of sick children and their families by providing an environment outside of the paediatric ward can be beneficial to health outcomes. Access to a garden environment that allows young patients and their family to engage with natural and built features has been shown to relieve stress, provide opportunities for educational activities, improve socialisation...
Brisk walking may be a measure for reducing impacts of chronic diseases in middle-aged and older people. Understanding the perceptions of regular brisk walkers would be valuable for healthcare providers endeavoring to cultivate and promote regular brisk walking in middle-aged and older people. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore and understand perceptions of regular brisk walking by middle-aged...
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