The impact of educational interventions on attitudes of emergency department staff towards patients with substance-related presentations: a quantitative systematic review.

Background: Visits to emergency departments for substance use/abuse are common worldwide. However, emergency department health care providers perceive substance-using patients as a challenging group to manage which can lead to negative attitudes. Providing education or experience-based exercises may impact positively on behaviors towards this patient population.

Identifying the key predictors for retention in critical care nurses.

Aims: The aim of this study was to explore the key predictors of retention in nurses working in critical care areas.

Background: The shortage of critical care nurses is reaching crisis proportions in Canada and throughout the industrialized world. Identifying the key influencing (i.

Dyspnea in the thoracic trauma patient: a human response to illness.

Dyspnea is one of the most common presenting symptoms in thoracic trauma patients; therefore, trauma nurses require extensive knowledge of this symptom. The Human Response to Illness model provides an organizing framework to establish a comprehensive understanding of the human response of dyspnea following thoracic trauma. The model is used to describe the physiological, pathophysiological, behavioral, and experiential perspectives of dyspnea in thoracic trauma, while considering personal and environmental factors.