Nurse-surgeons in the Australian public health system: A descriptive quantitative survey.

Background: With over five billion people worldwide lacking access to surgery, innovative solutions are vital to address the global surgical crisis. Nurse-surgeons present a promising innovation. Considering their contribution worldwide and impact on surgical care in Australia, an exploration of these advanced practice nurses is timely.

Clinicians' and Patients' Experiences and Perceptions on the Prevention and Management of Surgical Site Infections: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.

Aim: To explore clinicians' and patients' perceptions of implementing evidence-based practice to improve clinical practice for preventing and managing surgical site infections within hospital acute care settings.

Design: A convergent integrated mixed-methods systematic review using the Joanna Briggs Institute approach.

Methods: Included studies reported (i) acute care hospital clinicians' and patients' experiences and preferences for preventing and managing surgical site infections and (ii) barriers and facilitators to implementing surgical site infection prevention and management guidelines.

Internationally qualified nurses' perspectives on transitioning specialty skills within Australia: A content analysis.

Aim: To explore internationally qualified nurses' perceptions regarding the facilitators and barriers to specialty skill transfer in Australia.

Design: The study utilised a descriptive research design with a cross-sectional survey. Data were collected from July to September 2022.

Transfer of internationally qualified nurses' specialty skills to developed countries after immigration: A multicentre policy review.

Background: Internationally qualified nurses are highly sought after as a labour source due to continued shortages in the nursing profession in most developed countries. However, the lack of clear policies and procedures for nurses in the host country to use specialty nursing skills can result in the underutilisation of their expertise.

Objectives: To review the registration processes of internationally qualified nurses in 20 developed countries, with a focus on the transferability of specialised skills gained overseas.

Psychometric properties of the Braden scale to assess pressure injury risk in intensive care: A systematic review.

Objective: To analyse the psychometric properties of the Braden scale to assess pressure injury risk in adults in intensive care.

Design: A systematic review was conducted, with literature searches undertaken in five electronic databases. No date limits were applied.

REST: a preoperative tailored sleep intervention for patients undergoing total knee replacement - feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: To test the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a novel preoperative tailored sleep intervention for patients undergoing total knee replacement.

Design: Feasibility two-arm two-centre RCT using 1:1 randomisation with an embedded qualitative study.

Setting: Two National Health Service (NHS) secondary care hospitals in England and Wales.

Exploring intensive care nurses' perception of simulation-based learning: A systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Aim(s): To explore intensive care nurses' (ICN) perceptions of simulation-based learning (SBL).

Design: A systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Methods: The review followed the PRISMA guidelines for reporting a systematic review.

The perspectives of internationally qualified nurses regarding their specialty skill transition to Australia: A cross-sectional survey.

Aim: To identify barriers and facilitators of speciality skill transfer for internationally qualified nurses in Australia from the nurses' perspective.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was distributed through social media, snowballing and nursing professional organization.

Roles of nurse-surgeons in global surgical care: A scoping review.

Aim: To identify the roles of nurse-surgeons in the provision of surgical care.

Design: Scoping review.

Methods: This scoping review adhered to the JBI guideline for scoping reviews and EQUATOR Network's PRISMA-ScR checklist.

Strategies employed by developed countries to facilitate the transition of internationally qualified nurses specialty skills into clinical practice: An integrative review.

Background: Recruitment of internationally qualified nurses as a labour source is a long-standing human resource strategy being implemented to address the current and increasing global nursing shortage. Internationally qualified nurses transitioning into the health workforce of developed countries following immigration often possess specialty skills. A lack of a clear pathway of specialty skill utilisation makes recognising and using these specialty skills complex for many nurses.

Clinical and cost effectiveness of single stage compared with two stage revision for hip prosthetic joint infection (INFORM): pragmatic, parallel group, open label, randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: To determine whether patient reported outcomes improve after single stage versus two stage revision surgery for prosthetic joint infection of the hip, and to determine the cost effectiveness of these procedures.

Design: Pragmatic, parallel group, open label, randomised controlled trial.

Setting: High volume tertiary referral centres or orthopaedic units in the UK (n=12) and in Sweden (n=3), recruiting from 1 March 2015 to 19 December 2018.

Impact of nurse-surgeons on patient-centred outcomes: A systematic review.

Background: Nurse-surgeons have been performing surgeries for decades. Yet, their impact on perioperative clinical outcomes has not been explored in detail.

Objective: To investigate the impact of nurse-surgeons on patient-centred outcomes.

Patient and carer experience of living with a pressure injury: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.

Introduction: Pressure injuries are a significant cause of harm, contributing to increased mortality and financial burden on the healthcare system. Significant research on pressure injury risk assessment, prevention and treatment exists, but limited research exploring the patient and carer experience of living with pressure injury.

Aims: The aim of this meta-synthesis was to describe the patient and carer experience of living with a pressure injury.

Evaluation of a Vitamin D Screening and Treatment Protocol Using a Seasonal Calculator in Athletes.

Vitamin D is important in musculoskeletal health, and low serum vitamin D concentration is common in athletes. This study implemented a vitamin D screening and supplementation protocol in a cohort of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletes using summer 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and a seasonal variation calculator to achieve sufficient vitamin D concentration year-round. After implementation of the Vitamin D Protocol, there was a nonsignificant difference in athletes with sufficient winter vitamin D concentrations (72.

Value, transparency, and inclusion: A values-based study of patient involvement in musculoskeletal research.

Background: Patient and public involvement work (PPI) is essential to good research practice. Existing research indicates that PPI offers benefits to research design, conduct, communication, and implementation of findings. Understanding how PPI works and its value helps to provide information about best practice and highlight areas for further development.

Current methods of nurse-surgeon training and education: Systematic review.

Background: The role of nurse-surgeons has recently emerged to meet patient and health system surgical demands. However, methods of nurse-surgeon training and education requirements are unclear.

Objective: To identify and describe the current methods of nurse-surgeon training and education worldwide.

Choice between implants in knee replacement: protocol for a Bayesian network meta-analysis, analysis of joint registries and economic decision model to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of knee implants for NHS patients-The KNee Implant Prostheses Study (KNIPS).

Introduction: Knee replacements are highly successful for many people, but if a knee replacement fails, revision surgery is generally required. Surgeons and patients may choose from a range of implant components and combinations that make up knee replacement constructs, all with potential implications for how long a knee replacement will last. To inform surgeon and patient decisions, a comprehensive synthesis of data from randomised controlled trials is needed to evaluate the effects of different knee replacement implants on overall construct survival.

Cognitive-behavioral-based physical therapy to enhance return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: An open pilot study.

Objectives: To describe feasibility, adherence, acceptability, and outcomes of a cognitive-behavioral-based physical therapy (CBPT-ACLR) intervention for improving postoperative recovery after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR).

Design: Pilot study.

Setting: Academic medical center.

Effect of Group-Based Outpatient Physical Therapy on Function After Total Knee Replacement: Results From a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To evaluate the long-term clinical effectiveness of a novel group-based outpatient physical therapy (PT) following total knee replacement (TKR).

Methods: In this 2-center, unblinded, superiority, randomized controlled trial, 180 patients on a waiting list for primary TKR due to osteoarthritis were randomized to a 6 session group-based outpatient PT intervention and usual care (n = 89) or usual care alone (n = 91). The primary outcome was patient-reported functional ability measured by the Lower Extremity Functional Scale at 12 months postoperative.

Choice of Prosthetic Implant Combinations in Total Hip Replacement: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using UK and Swedish Hip Joint Registries Data.

Background: Prosthetic implants used in total hip replacements (THR) have a range of bearing surface combinations (metal-on-polyethylene, ceramic-on-polyethylene, ceramic-on-ceramic, and metal-on-metal), head sizes (small [<36 mm in diameter] and large [≥36 mm in diameter]), and fixation techniques (cemented, uncemented, hybrid, and reverse hybrid). These can influence prosthesis survival, patients' quality of life, and healthcare costs.

Objectives: To compare the lifetime cost-effectiveness of implants for patients of different age and sex profiles.

An observational cohort study to produce and evaluate an improved tool to screen older women with back pain for osteoporotic vertebral fractures (Vfrac): study protocol.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study is to produce an easy to use checklist for general practitioners to complete whenever a woman aged over 65 years with back pain seeks healthcare. This checklist will produce a binary output to determine if the patient should have a radiograph to diagnose vertebral fracture.

Purpose: People with osteoporotic vertebral fractures are important to be identified as they are at relatively high risk of further fractures.

Clinical- and cost-effectiveness of the STAR care pathway compared to usual care for patients with chronic pain after total knee replacement: study protocol for a UK randomised controlled trial.

Background: Approximately 20% of patients experience chronic pain after total knee replacement. There is little evidence for effective interventions for the management of this pain, and current healthcare provision is patchy and inconsistent. Given the complexity of this condition, multimodal and individualised interventions matched to pain characteristics are needed.

Development of a complex intervention for people with chronic pain after knee replacement: the STAR care pathway.

Background: Approximately 20% of people who have total knee replacement experience chronic pain afterwards, but there is little evidence about effective interventions for managing this type of pain. This article describes the systematic development and refinement of a complex intervention for people with chronic pain after knee replacement. The intervention is a care pathway involving an assessment clinic and onward referral, with telephone follow-up as required.