Delirium post-cardiac surgery: Incidence and associated factors.

Background: Post-operative delirium among cardiac surgery patients is a prevalent complication that associated with multiple negative outcomes.

Aim: This study aimed to assess delirium incidence, associated factors, and outcomes for adult patients who underwent elective cardiac surgery.

Design: An exploratory prospective cohort design was used for this study.

Nurses and internet health-related information: review on access and utility.

Purpose: To review literature on the nurses' use and access to Internet Health Related Information (HRI). There is relatively little evidence in published literature on barriers, attitudes and how nurses utilize online health-related information.

Methods: Literature search was carried-out on Cumulative Indexes to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Springer and Sage publications.

Maturity Level of the Stigma Concept Associated with Cancer Diagnosis in the Nursing Literature.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the maturity level of stigma as a concept in nursing and its relationship to care provided for patients with cancer. Methods: The four principles of Morse and his colleagues were used to evaluate the maturity level of the stigma concept: epistemological, logical, pragmaticl, and linguistic. Analysis was conducted with the literature published between 2006 and 2016.

Nurses' Experiences of Grief Following Patient Death: A Qualitative Approach.

Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of nurses' feelings, emotions, grief reactions, and coping mechanisms following their patients' death.

Background: On a daily basis, nurses are experiencing patients' death, which exposes them to grief. Nurses' grief has not been sufficiently addressed in practice settings, although it has been a well-known threat to health and work performance.