Hygiene management for long-term ventilated persons in the home health care setting: a scoping review.

Background: Evidence and recommendations for hygiene management in home mechanical ventilation (HMV) are rare. In Germany, few regionally limited studies show poor hygiene management or a lack of its implementation. This scoping review of international literature identified the evidence in hygiene management for ventilated patients in the home care setting which has to be implemented for infection prevention and control.

[Tasks and roles of newly bachelor graduates of nursing in acute care settings - A scoping review].

Unlabelled: Tasks and roles of newly bachelor graduates of nursing in acute care settings - A scoping review Background: Despite the need, institutions in the German-speaking health care system are still not prepared for newly qualified bachelor graduates of professional nursing programs, since task and role profiles for their use in the acute care setting are not available.

Aim: The aim is to provide an international overview of tasks and roles of newly qualified bachelor graduates in the acute care setting.

Methods: The search covered the period from 2010 to 2021 in the databases CINAHL and MEDLINE.