Background: Better understanding of patient and family member experiences of delirium and related distress during critical care is required to inform the development of targeted nonpharmacologic interventions.
Objective: To examine and synthesize qualitative data on patient and family member delirium experiences and relieving factors in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Design: We conducted a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.
Aims And Objectives: To survey intensive care unit healthcare professionals' awareness and practice related to delirium.
Background: Despite the current evidence revealing the risks linked to delirium and advances in practice guidelines promoting delirium assessment, healthcare professionals show little sensitivity towards delirium and evident training needs.
Design: The study had a cross-sectional survey design.
In the current study, the Objective Structured Video Examination (OSVE) was conducted to assess undergraduate nursing students' knowledge, observation, and clinical reasoning related to clinical psychiatric nursing competencies. The OSVE showed acceptable reliability and validity (Cronbach's α = 0.714, r = 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: While there is widespread use of OSCE in general nursing specialties, psychiatric nursing has been slow to adopt this evaluation method and it has only recently been introduced to psychiatric nursing education.
Aim: The main aim of the present study is to test the first application, validity and reliability of the OSCE in undergraduate psychiatric nursing education.
Method: OSCE was developed to assess undergraduate psychiatric nursing students' clinical skills.