Registered nurses' perceptions and experiences of autonomy: a descriptive phenomenological study.

Background: Professional autonomy is a key concept in understanding nurses' roles in delivering patient care. Recent research exploring the role of autonomy in the nursing work environment indicated that English and American nurses had differing perceptions of autonomy. This qualitative study aimed to explore the understanding and experiences of autonomy of nurses working in England.

The nursing work environment and quality of care: Content analysis of comments made by registered nurses responding to the Essentials of Magnetism II scale.

Aim: To report a qualitative study of themes Registered Nurses raised spontaneously about their work environment, in a cross-sectional survey study when responding to the Essentials of Magnetism II (EOMII) scale.

Design: Qualitative descriptive survey.

Methods: At the end of the EOMII scale, a free form text section was included asking nurses to add comments about their ward/work environment Of the 247 nurses who completed the EOMII scale, 30% ( = 75) provided comments.

The nursing work environment and quality of care: A cross-sectional study using the Essentials of Magnetism II Scale in England.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the structure of the Essentials of Magnetism II (EOMII) scale using data from nurses working in England; and to describe the impact of different aspects of the nursing work environment on nurse-assessed care quality (NACQ).

Background: The EOMII Scale was developed in the United States to measure nursing work environments. It has been widely used in the United States and in a number of other countries, but has not yet been used in the UK.

Attitudinal & Knowledge Barriers Towards Effective Pain Assessment & Management in Dementia: A Narrative Synthesis.

Under-assessment and inadequate treatment of pain is a common problem for older adults, particularly those with dementia. This may be in part attributed to knowledge deficits and negative attitudes among healthcare staff and informal caregivers towards pain, its assessment and its management in dementia. Knowledge and attitudes have a significant predictive relationship with behavior, potentially impacting pain assessment and management practices.

Barriers to the management of pain in dementia care.

Pain in people with dementia is increasingly recognised as both underassessed and undertreated. This review discusses the main barriers to effective assessment and management of pain in this population, strategies to overcome these barriers, and the implications of such strategies for practitioners and researchers. There appear to be gaps in nursing knowledge and inaccurate beliefs about pain in dementia, and further education may address these.

Palliative care stress in a UK community hospital: evaluation of a stress-reduction programme.

In this study the Nurses Stress Scale and Nurses Coping With Stress Questionnaire were used to investigate work-related stress in 18 nurses providing palliative care in a UK NHS community hospital. These instruments were administered twice before and twice after a stress-reduction programme. In depth qualitative interviews were conducted before and after the programme and a 12-item questionnaire was used to assess whether the nurses found the programme useful.