Disrupted Candidacy: A Longitudinal Examination of the Constrained Healthcare-Access Journeys of National Health Service Workers in Scotland Seeking Supports for Long COVID Illness.

Introduction: Evidence examines how persons experiencing Long COVID (LC) struggle to secure healthcare for symptoms. However, few studies examine healthcare workers experiencing LC, nor the complex and multiple difficulties faced when seeking and receiving healthcare.

Methods: This study is based on two phases of longitudinally conducted qualitative interviews, 6 months apart, with National Health Service (NHS) workers experiencing LC, from different occupational roles at NHS locales in Scotland (first interviews, n = 50; second interviews, n = 44).

Exploring women's motivations to freebirth and their experience of maternity care: A systematic qualitative evidence synthesis.

Background: Freebirth is currently defined as the deliberate decision to give birth without a regulated healthcare professional. Previous reviews have identified factors influencing women's decision to freebirth, yet there is limited evidence on what is the care experience for women who opt to freebirth.

Aim: To synthesise the qualitative evidence on women's motivations to freebirth and their experience of maternity care when deciding to freebirth.

An Exploratory Multi-Case Study of the Health and Wellbeing Needs, Relationships and Experiences of Health and Social Care Service Users and the People who Support them at Home.

Introduction: International policies and legislation set a precedence of person-centred sustainable integrated Health and Social Care (HSC) that meets the health and wellbeing needs of service users through improved experiences. However, current research focuses on service models, with fewer studies investigating experiences and needs.

Methods: This qualitative multi-case [n = 7] study was co-designed with key stakeholders and aimed to explore experiences and needs of people who access and provide HSC at home.

'A journey of self-discovery and transformation': A theoretical and comprehensive evaluation of the Queen's nursing institute Scotland community development programme.

Aim: To evaluate adoption, implementation and maintenance of the Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland development programme.

Design: A comprehensive, longitudinal, qualitative evaluation.

Method: Participants from the first two cohorts were interviewed at different stages to explore adoption, implementation and maintenance.

Psychotherapeutic interventions for burns patients and the potential use with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis patients: A systematic integrative review.

Background: The existing evidence demonstrates that survivors of SJS/TEN have reported long-lasting psychological effects of their condition. Burns patients experience similar psychological effects. It is important to look at ways to help allay the psychological complications of SJS/TEN.

Abdominal cancer symptoms: Evaluation of the impact of a regional public awareness campaign.

Objective: A regional 'Be Clear on Cancer' (BCoC) campaign developed by Public Health England aimed to promote public awareness of key abdominal cancer symptoms in people aged 50 years and over.

Methods: Data were analysed for metrics at different stages in the patient care pathway including public awareness, GP attendance and referrals, to cancer diagnosis.

Results: There was significantly higher recognition of the BCoC abdominal campaign in the campaign region compared to the control area (Post Campaign/Control, n = 401/406; 35% vs.

Integrated health and social care in the community: A critical integrative review of the experiences and well-being needs of service users and their families.

A need for people-centred health and social support systems is acknowledged as a global priority. Most nations face challenges in providing safe, effective, timely, affordable, coordinated care around the needs and preferences of people who access integrated health and social care (IHSC) services. Much of the current research in the field focuses on describing and evaluating specific models for delivering IHSC.

OpenClinical.net: Artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering at the point of care.

Objective: OpenClinical.net is a way of disseminating clinical guidelines to improve quality of care whose distinctive feature is to combine the benefits of clinical guidelines and other human-readable material with the power of artificial intelligence to give patient-specific recommendations. A key objective is to empower healthcare professionals to author, share, critique, trial and revise these 'executable' models of best practice.

Caring for older people with dementia in the emergency department.

Background: Admission to an emergency department (ED) may expose the older person with dementia to a range of negative consequences, including a deterioration in their behavioural symptoms. The authors conducted a review of primary research relating to the experiences of older people with dementia, their carers and ED nurses, to understand how these experiences might inform nursing practice.

Methods: Integrative review with a search of the electronic databases of Medline, CINAHL and PSYCHINFO using specified inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Using Aquablation to Treat Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.

Editor's note: This is a summary of a nursing care-related systematic review from the Cochrane Library. For more information, see https://nursing.cochrane.

Systematic and integrative reviews: synthesising evidence for community nursing practice.

Ease of access to vast amounts of information presents significant opportunities and challenges for nurses in the community as they seek to base their practice on the best available evidence. Growing expectations around evidence-based practice have developed alongside developments in evidence synthesis, which adopts robust approaches to identifying, appraising and synthesising key evidence for clinical decision-making. The context in which evidence-based practice occurs is key, and this article discusses the skills and knowledge needed for community nurses to discern how evidence and information should influence their decisions to review and change approaches to clinical practice.

Instruments for assessing nurses' palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised care setting: An integrative review.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the content and reported psychometric properties of instruments for assessing nurses' palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised healthcare units.

Background: Knowledge of palliative care, and competence in the delivery of care, is essential. Assessment of competence is an important means of evaluating the knowledge and skills of practitioners in order to improve the quality of care provided for patients and their families.

Interventions for preventing falls in people with multiple sclerosis.

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most prevalent diseases of the central nervous system with recent prevalence estimates indicating that MS directly affects 2.3 million people worldwide. Fall rates of 56% have been reported among people with MS in a recent meta-analysis.

The experiences of older adults with a diagnosed functional mental illness, their carers and healthcare professionals in relation to mental health service delivery: An integrative review.

Aims And Objectives: To analyse the experiences of older people with a diagnosed functional mental illness and their carers in relation to mental health service delivery and analyse the experiences of health and social care professionals who care for and treat older people who have a diagnosed functional mental illness.

Background: The prevalence of functional mental illness in older adults is notable but to date has received less research attention than dementia. Older adults with functional mental illness have life expectancy of up to 20 years less than the rest of the population.

Enacting evidence-based practice: pathways for community nurses.

Community nurses are expected to deliver evidence-based practice, which is challenging given the diversity and breadth of the evidence base from which they can draw. This study aimed to explore community nurses' experiences of implementing change in their practice. Qualitative semi-structured interviews (n=9) and focus groups (n=2) with community nurses (n=17) were conducted.

Integrative review; identifying the evidence base for policymaking and analysis in health care.

Aim: The aim of this was to identify and synthesize the evidence underpinning the health policymaking process to inform the development of a health-related policy analysis framework.

Design: A mixed methods review using "Best Fit" Framework synthesis.

Data Sources: PUBMED and CINAHL+ databases for English language papers published between March 2013 - March 2017.