Missed infection prevention and control activities and their predictors: insights from a pre- and post-pandemic study.

Aim: The primary aim of this study was to compare differences, if any, in missed infection prevention and control (IPC) activities before and after the pandemic, along with the related predictors. The secondary aim was to identify relationships between missed IPC activities and unfinished nursing care.

Methods: A repeated cross-sectional design was conducted in 2019 (pre-pandemic, 184 nurses) and 2024 (post-pandemic, 240 nurses) in a large academic hospital following the Checklist for Reporting of Survey Studies guidelines.

Causal links behind why Australian midwifery care is missed.

Aims: The aim of this study is to reliably estimate why midwifery care is missed and to crystallize those factors that have causal links to it.

Background: Studies involving the incidences and types of missed midwifery care are sparsely described. The rationales behind these deficits in care are even less well researched.

An empirical analysis of the constructs of Fundamentals of Care Framework using structural equation modelling.

Aim: First, to identify which aspects of missed care accurately define the integration of care and context of care dimensions of the Fundamentals of Care Framework. Second, to test the Framework for validity and reliability and lastly, to explore how leadership influences care integration.

Design: A non-experimental research design using self-audit data collected information about variations in nursing care as exemplars for dimensions of the Framework.

The presence of missed care: A staff development response.

Aims: This study quantifies the types and frequencies of missed care identified by nurses and measures its impact on their capacity to demonstrate mandatory practice standards as future hospital staff.

Background: Considerable literature exists as to the nature of missed care but there is a paucity of findings about how missed care impacts on learning firstly as a student and then as a graduate nurse employed in a hospital setting. Additionally, there is little emphasis as to how staff development for nurses exposed to missed care may be implemented.

Adaptation and Psychometric Testing of the Czech and Slovak Version of the Missed Nursing Care in Infection Prevention and Control Survey.

Background And Purpose: Only a limited number of items involved in missed nursing care inventories specifically focused on infection control practices. The study aimed to adapt and evaluate psychometric properties of the Czech and Slovak version of the Infection Control Missed Care survey; and to assess and compare the amount, type,and reasons for missed nursing care in infection prevention and control amongCzech and Slovak nurses.

Methods: The convenience sample of 1459 nurses from the Czechand Slovak republic was recruited.

Predictors of missed infection control care: A tri-partite international study.

Aim: This study aimed to quantify types and frequencies of missed infection control care and to develop a theoretical model for estimating nurses' consensus scores about this form of missed care.

Design: A non-experimental research design using self-audit data was selected to collect information about the types and frequencies of missed infection control care from nurses employed in hospitals located in three different countries. Data collection commenced mid-year 2018.

Quali sono le ragioni delle Missed Care? Risultato di uno studio bilaterale. Ragioni delle Missed Care.

Background: Evidence of missed nursing care in clinical practice has been well documented; however, fewer studies highlighting why care is missed have been conducted and this prevents effective interventions aimed at minimizing the missed care.

Methods: A secondary analysis of two cross-sectional study designs was performed to capture the direction and strength of 1,114 Italian and Australian nurses' perceptions about why care was missed in their hospitals. The MISSCARE survey was used to collect data and the specific section aimed at estimating the reasons for missed nursing care was used.

Causal links to missed Australian midwifery care: What is the evidence?

Introduction: The incidences and types of missed nursing care in the acute care and community sectors are both ubiquitous and quantifiable, however, there are few research studies relating to the type and frequency of missed maternity-based care for mothers and families. The aim of this study is to estimate the incidences and types of Australian missed midwifery care and to identify those factors that have causal links to it.

Methods: A non-experimental, descriptive method using a Likert developed MISSCARE scale was used to ascertain consensus estimates made by Australian midwives.

Comparing infection control and ward nurses' views of the omission of infection control activities using the Missed Nursing Care Infection Prevention and Control (MNCIPC) Survey.

Aim: To compare the perceptions of nurses with infection control expertise and ward nurses as to what infection control activities are missed and the reasons why these activities are omitted.

Background: Infection prevention activities are viewed as important for reducing health care-acquired infections (HAIs) but are often poorly performed.

Methods: Data were collected through the Missed Nursing Care Infection Prevention and Control (MNCIPC) Survey delivered to 500 Australian nurses prior to COVID-19.

Corrigendum to "Modelling nurses" use of local anaesthesia for intravenous cannulation and arterial blood gas sampling: A cross-sectional study" [Heliyon 6 (3) (2020) e03428].

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Modelling nurses' use of local anaesthesia for intravenous cannulation and arterial blood gas sampling: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Needle insertions are painful, yet they are frequently performed for adults and children without using local anaesthetic (LA) to minimise pain and anxiety.

Objectives: A hypothetical model was formulated to explore the factors related to Saudi nurses' self-reported readiness to use LA prior to undertaking parenteral procedures in their workplaces.

Design: This was an exploratory, cross-sectional study.

Measuring the validity and reliability of the Lithuanian missed nursing care in infection prevention and control scales using Rasch analysis.

Aim: The aim was to translate and validate the Missed Nursing Care in Infection Prevention and Control Survey for its use in the Lithuanian context.

Methods: A convenience sample of 331 nurses was surveyed. The study instrument explored missed care in the context of infection prevention and control practices.

Causal links associated with missed residential aged care.

Aims: To estimate and model the types and frequencies of care that nurses and carers self-identify as being missed in the Australian residential aged care sector.

Background: The study advances missed care research to explore how the care of elderly Australians is compromised.

Methods: A multi-variate approach was used to apply the consensus scores of 2,467 staff to missed opportunities for resident health promotion and restorative care.

Developing policies and actions in response to missed nursing care: A consensus process.

Aim: To support the development of appropriate policies and actions in the field of missed nursing care (MNC).

Background: There has been an ever-growing international debate on MNC, interventions that nurses have identified as necessary for their patients, but which for various reasons they are unable to provide or are forced to delay. Despite MNC's relevance, its translation into policies and actions has not been documented to date.

[Missed nursing care and italian nursing practice: preliminary finding of a consensus conference].

. Missed nursing care and italian nursing practice: preliminary findings of a consensus conference. In recent years in Italy there has been renewed interest in missed nursing care due to various factors, such as participation in the RANCARE project, with 28 European and non-EU countries, the opportunity to develop international exchanges, specific projects and field based research.

Modeling Missed Care: Implications for Evidence-Based Practice.

Background: There is a growing nursing literature that views missed care as an inevitable consequence of work intensification associated with the rationing of nursing and material resources available to deliver care. Global studies recognize that missed care is now ubiquitous, although studies tend to be conducted in one region, rather than nationwide. This study seeks to understand the Australian context of missed care.

Predicting variations to missed nursing care: A three-nation comparison.

Aims: To measure and model Australian, Cypriot and Italian nurses' beliefs about what care is missed and how frequently it occurs within their settings.

Background: This study expands on previous MISSCARE research but now applies and predicts missed care within three countries.

Methods: Multivariate analysis was performed to estimate 1,896 nurses' consensus scores about missed care activities based on Alfaro-Lefevre's conceptual framework of care priorities.

Evaluating the Performance of a Single-Item, Global, Estimate of Missed Nursing Care.

Background And Purpose: Current measures of missed nursing care employ inventories of tasks which are rated for the frequency with which each is missed. These lists have shortcomings for research and clinical evaluation. There is a need for measures with less response burden, wider generalizability, and greater sensitivity and specificity for identifying poor quality care.

Can Nursing Students Practice What Is Preached? Factors Impacting Graduating Nurses' Abilities and Achievement to Apply Evidence-Based Practices.

Background: In order to meet national Australian nursing registration requisites, nurses need to meet competency requirements for evidence-based practices (EBPs).

Aims: A hypothetical model was formulated to explore factors that influenced Australian nursing students' ability and achievement to understand and employ EBPs related to health care provision.

Methods: A nonexperimental, descriptive survey method was used to identify self-reported EBP efficacy estimates of 375 completing undergraduate nursing students.

The impact of rationing of health resources on capacity of Australian public sector nurses to deliver nursing care after-hours: a qualitative study.

Australia, along with other countries, has introduced New Public Management (NPM) into public sector hospitals in an effort to contain healthcare costs. NPM is associated with outsourcing of service provision, the meeting of government performance indicators, workforce flexibility and rationing of resources. This study explores the impact of rationing of staffing and other resources upon delivery of care outside of business hours.

Nurses and midwives perceptions of missed nursing care--A South Australian study.

Background: Budgetary restrictions and shorter hospital admission times have increased demands upon nursing time leading to nurses missing or rationing care. Previous research studies involving perceptions of missed care have predominantly occurred outside of Australia. This paper reports findings from the first South Australian study to explore missed nursing care.

Rounding, work intensification and new public management.

In this study, we argue that contemporary nursing care has been overtaken by new public management strategies aimed at curtailing budgets in the public hospital sector in Australia. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 15 nurses from one public acute hospital with supporting documentary evidence, we demonstrate what happens to nursing work when management imposes rounding as a risk reduction strategy. In the case study outlined rounding was introduced across all wards in response to missed care, which in turn arose as a result of work intensification produced by efficiency, productivity, effectiveness and accountability demands.

Psychometric Evaluation of a Self-Report Evidence-Based Practice Tool Using Rasch Analysis.

Aims: This paper reports if estimates of final year nursing students' self-rated abilities in responding to evidence-based practice (EBP) issues is a psychometrically robust measure.

Background: EBP as it applies to nursing continues to be heralded as a method to improve clinical patient care. Health professionals such as nurses are well positioned to respond to this demand; however, evidence suggests they are not always able to embrace this important foundation of everyday nursing practice.

Using Rasch analysis to identify midwifery students' learning about providing breastfeeding support.

Aim: To report on a study measuring midwifery students' self-reported abilities in teaching and supervising breastfeeding mothers. Abilities were assessed at two time intervals, before and after completing a maternal and infant nutrition topic with simultaneous clinical opportunities to consolidate their skills.

Method: A convenience sample of midwifery students in an Australian university completed a pre- and post-intervention survey to assess their self-rated ability to teach and supervise breastfeeding mothers.