Exploring the Use of an Electronic Competency Assessment Document Using iPad Minis to Assess Clinical Practice Competency in a Preregistration Nursing Program: A Cross-sectional Feasibility Study.

The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of using iPad minis as a method of completing competency assessment in clinical practice. Digital technology helps to revolutionize all aspects of our lives. The use of digital technologies in clinical practice can facilitate a move toward a more flexible learning environment and enable students to adapt in a rapidly changing, interconnected world.

Challenges of living with and managing inflammatory bowel disease: A meta-synthesis of patients' experiences.

Aims And Objectives: To examine qualitative studies which reported on patients' challenges of living with and managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Background: There is a growing body of qualitative research focusing on the subjective experiences of patients with IBD. This research points to the daily challenges that patients experience which can relate to their physical and psychological health, as well as their social well-being, and may impact negatively on their lives.

Ethnographic study using Normalization Process Theory to understand the implementation process of infection prevention and control guidelines in Ireland.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore how infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines are used and understood by healthcare professionals, patients and families.

Design: Ethnographic study with 59 hours of non-participant observation and 57 conversational interviews. Data analysis was underpinned by the Normalization Process Theory (NPT) as a theoretical framework.

Patient involvement in the implementation of infection prevention and control guidelines and associated interventions: a scoping review.

Objective: To explore patient involvement in the implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines and associated interventions.

Design: Scoping review.

Methods: A methodological framework was followed to identify recent publications on patient involvement in the implementation of IPC guidelines and interventions.

An analysis of the existing resources in relation to education and treatment of diabetes in four European countries: Estonia, Finland, Ireland, and Lithuania.

Diabetes has reached pandemic proportions worldwide. To address and assist health care professionals in maintaining and updating their knowledge base on diabetes care, a multilateral project within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme and the Erasmus Curriculum Development - sub programme was initiated in 2008. Four European countries are involved in the project - Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Lithuania.

Nurses' knowledge of inadvertent hypothermia.

Inadvertent hypothermia can have significant consequences in the perioperative setting. Knowing how to recognize and manage inadvertent hypothermia is an important aspect of perioperative nursing. A quantitative, descriptive study was conducted at an annual perioperative nursing conference to evaluate nurses' knowledge regarding the prevention of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia.

Post anaesthetic care units in the Republic of Ireland: a survey of discharge criteria.

Discharge readiness of patients from the post anaesthetic care unit (PACU) is often determined by specific discharge criteria. This quantitative, descriptive national study aimed to survey discharge criteria used in the PACU. Data from 45 hospitals nationally with a response rate of 77.