Interprofessional collaboration in a community virtual ward: A focus group study.

Background: The problem of a lack of nurses is expected to worsen in the future. With an ever-increasing number of elderly patients with multimorbidity and a shortage of healthcare professionals, primary care must innovatively organise their services to offer more sustainable healthcare services. Organising healthcare services in a community virtual ward has been found to improve the quality of life for vulnerable elderly populations.

A Q-methodology study of the type of support mentors need when assessing underperforming nursing students.

Aims: To identify and describe patterns of the shared viewpoints of nurse mentors about the support obtained from link lecturer in assessing underperforming students.

Design: Non-experimental, exploratory research design.

Methods: Q-methodology was applied to explore the viewpoints of 26 mentors about support.