Pre-donation water and salty snacks to prevent vasovagal reactions among blood donors.

Background: Minimizing the risk of vasovagal reactions (VVRs) can prevent donor harms and improve donor return. We report the results of a program to reduce VVR rates.

Study Design And Methods: The program was implemented on June 11, 2017 and consisted in drinking water and eating a salty snack before donating blood, plasma, or platelets.

Validation of new, gender-neutral questions on recent sexual behaviors among plasma donors and men who have sex with men.

Background And Objectives: Several blood services might eventually interview donors with gender-neutral questions on sexual behaviors to improve the inclusivity of blood donation. We tested two ways (i.e.

Risk of transfusion-related acute lung injury and human immunodeficiency virus associated with donations from trans donors in Quebec, Canada.

Background And Objectives: Blood operator must establish selection criteria according to the populations at risk of blood-related infections and complications. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the risks of transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) associated with donations from trans persons.

Materials And Methods: Donor screening data from Héma-Québec were used.

Supporting Canadian Nursing Students to Write the NCLEX-RN Exam: A Three-Phased Mixed Methods Descriptive Design.

Background: In 2015, the College of Nurses of Ontario, replaced the Canadian Registered Nurse Examination with the NCLEX-RN exam as entry-to-practice. Faculty in a college-university partnership searched for products to provide nursing students with focused practice in writing exams modelled on the Canadian NCLEX-RN test plan.

Purpose: The aim of this three-phased evaluation study was to test and validate NCLEX-RN exam preparation materials newly developed for the Canadian context.

Reported non-compliance with pre-donation screening among blood donors in Québec, Canada: A focus on the 3-month deferral for men who have sex with men.

Background And Objectives: In Québec (Canada), the donation deferral for men who have sex with men (MSM) has recently been shortened to 3 months. Whether this change impacted compliance with pre-donation screening is unknown. We assessed compliance with the disclosure of male-to-male sex and other behavioural risk factors for HIV amid this change.

Moral Experiences of Crisis Management in a Child Mental Health Setting: A Participatory Hermeneutic Ethnographic Study.

Restraints and seclusion are routinely used in child mental health settings for conflict and crisis management, but raise significant ethical concerns. Using a participatory hermeneutic ethnographic framework, we studied conflict and crisis management in a child mental health setting offering care to children aged 6-12 years old in Quebec, Canada. The use of this framework allowed for an in-depth examination of the local imaginaries, of what is morally meaningful to the people in the setting, in addition to institutional norms, structures and practices.

Effect of ABO blood group on haemostatic parameters in severe haemophilia A patients performing acute moderate-intensity exercise.

: The primary objective was to assess the effect of ABO blood group on von Willebrand factor (VWF) rise induced by four bouts of moderate-intensity physical activity, on pharmacokinetics of a B-domain-deleted recombinant FVIII (BDD-rFVIII), and haemostatic parameters in severe haemophilia A patients with a null mutation. The secondary objective was to compare the response to exercise according to infused product type in a subgroup of patients who previously participated to the same exercise protocol, while treated with a full length recombinant FVIII (FL-rFVIII). Twenty patients had two visits (rest and exercise).

Children's moral experiences of crisis management in a child mental health setting.

The experiences of children related to conflict and crisis management in child mental health settings, especially those aged 12 and below, have been rarely studied. This study examined the moral experiences of children related to conflict and crisis management and the related use of restraint and seclusion in a child mental health setting. A 5-month focused ethnography using a participatory hermeneutic framework was conducted in a day hospital programme for children with severe disruptive disorders within a mental health institute.

An Interpretation of Nurse-Patient Relationships in Inpatient Psychiatry: Understanding the Mindful Approach.

Nurses who work in acute inpatient psychiatry, where lengths of stay are increasingly shortened, struggle to establish therapeutic nurse-patient relationships. The purpose of this inquiry was to illuminate the nature of relationships between inpatient psychiatric mental health (PMH) nurses and their patients. The author used semistructured interviews and nonparticipant observation in an interpretive phenomenological inquiry.

"I'm still who I was" creating meaning through engagement in art: The experiences of two breast cancer survivors.

Purpose: The aim of this feasibility study was two-fold: i) develop lifelike torsos of two breast cancer survivors using innovative sculpting material and; ii) shed light on the meaning women give to the experience of breast cancer after viewing their sculpted torsos.

Methods: This collaborative initiative between nurse researchers and artists was situated within phenomenological inquiry. Two breast cancer survivors shared their bodies, as models, and stories of their cancer journey and the experience of modeling to create life-sized torsos of their bodies.

Art, archetypes and alchemy: images of self following treatment for breast cancer.

Purpose: The loss or alteration of a breast poses a threat to a woman's selfhood, particularly those aspects that embrace feminine identity such as sexuality and caring. The use of art as a vehicle for recreating a sense of self after breast cancer surgery framed the study that generated the stories reported here. A team of nurse-researchers and professional artists entered into a collaborative partnership aimed at creating life-like prototypes of the torsos of two breast cancer survivors.

Understanding the milieu experiences of patients on an acute inpatient psychiatric unit.

The role of inpatient mental health units is changing. Increasingly, people with acute and severe mental illness are admitted for short periods of intense treatment and are discharged quickly to community-based care. Reduction in average lengths of stay for psychiatric inpatients has been accompanied by a marginalization of the concept of therapeutic milieu in the mental health discourse.

Advanced practice nursing: unification through a common identity.

Despite the wide variety of advanced practice roles in nursing and the well-documented differences among them [Hamric, A. (2000). A definition of advanced nursing practice.