The Impact of Being Present During Resuscitation on Family Members: A Scoping Review Protocol.

Background And Aims: Family members of patients who are undergoing resuscitation may experience complex psychological challenges, including anxiety, depression, or posttraumatic stress symptoms. Although several studies have identified positive experiences of family members who were given the option to be present during their loved one's resuscitation, the actual impact of family presence during resuscitation on family members remains elusive and needs to be explored comprehensively. This review aims to identify the impact of being present during the resuscitation event of adult patients in in-hospital settings on family members.

Exploring operating room staff engagement in the planning and design of the built environment in Australia: Development of a constructivist grounded theory.

Aim: This study aimed to explore Australian health professionals' perceptions and experiences regarding built environment planning for operating rooms.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews and a focus group using exploratory qualitative methods, involving 16 participants: anaesthetists, surgeons, nurses, theatre technicians and designers of operating rooms.

Findings: Four core concerns of participants were analysed: Engagement, Respect & Collaboration; Foreseeing & Responding to Safety Concerns; Enhancing Design Planning to Minimise Internal & External Consequences; and Ambiguous Application of Standards in Operating Room Design Planning.

A greater nurse and midwife density protects against infant mortality globally.

Purpose: As the largest profession within the health care workforce, nurses and midwives play a critical role in the health and wellness of families especially children and infants. This study suggests those countries with higher nurse and midwife densities (NMD) had lower infant mortality rates (IMR).

Design And Methods: With affluence, low birthweight and urbanization incorporated as potential confounders, this ecological study analyzed the correlations between NMD and IMR with scatterplots, Pearson r correlation, partial correlation and multiple linear regression models.

How to code gerunds in constructivist grounded theory research: an example.

Background: Coding for gerunds is useful in developing theory in grounded theory. However, it can be confusing for the novice researcher to recognise these words, which consider actions more abstractly.

Aim: To explain how to identify, analyse and code gerunds, using the example of a constructivist grounded theory study investigating the design of operating rooms.

Nursing workforce plays a significant role in reducing COVID-19 deaths worldwide: A cross-sectional analysis of data from 178 countries.

Worldwide, the role of nursing workforce in reducing COVID-19 case fatality ratio (CFR) is analyzed with scatter plots, Pearson's r and nonparametric, partial correlation and multiple linear regression models. The potential confounders, median age, health expenditure, physician density, and urbanization were incorporated for calculating the independent role of nursing workforce in protecting against COVID-19 CFR. The study findings suggested that (1) the nursing workforce inversely and significantly correlates with COVID-19 CFR; (2) this relationship remained independent of the confounding effects of each individual confounder or their combination; (3) Nursing workforce was the only variable identified as a significant contributor for reducing COVID-19 CFR, when it was incorporated into stepwise regression model with health expenditure, median age, physician density, and urbanization for analyzing their individual predicting effects on COVID-19 CFR.

Chiroptically Active Multi-Modal Calcium Carbonate-Based Nanocomposites.

The development of multimodal nano- and micro-structures has become an increasingly popular area of research in recent years. In particular, the combination of two or more desirable properties within a single structure opens multiple opportunities from biomedicine, sensing, and catalysis, to a variety of optical applications. Here, for the first time, we report the synthesis and characterization of multimodal chiroptically active CaCO nanocomposites.

A cross-sectional study quantifies the independent contribution of nurses and midwives in child health outcomes.

Introduction: As the largest profession within the healthcare industry, nursing and midwifery workforce (NMW) provides comprehensive healthcare to children and their families. This study quantified the independent role of NMW in reducing under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) worldwide.

Design: A retrospective, observational and correlational study to examine the independent role of NMW in protecting against U5MR.

Dialysis Needle-Related Distress: Patient Perspectives on Identification, Prevention, and Management.

Introduction: Needle-related distress is common among people receiving hemodialysis and affects quality of life and treatment decisions, yet little evidence exists to guide management. This study explored patients' experiences of needle-related distress to inform the development of prevention, identification, and management strategies.

Methods: Semistructured interviews concerning dialysis cannulation, needle-related distress, and potential solutions were conducted with people with current or recent experience of hemodialysis ( = 15) from a tertiary hospital-based service.

How Can Nurses Support Patients on Hemodialysis Who Experience Needle Fear? An Online Educational Intervention for Nephrology Nurses.

Nephrology nurses struggle to support patients on hemodialysis who experience needle fear due to absence of adequate programs or guidelines. Therefore, we have designed an educational intervention for nurses to learn techniques and strategies to support patients with needle fear and review best cannulation practices with minimal trauma to improve patients' experience of dialysis. A pre-post design measured self-reported confidence in nurses' ability to support patients on dialysis who have a fear of needles.

Greater nurse density correlates to higher level of population ageing globally, but is more prominent in developed countries.

Background: Representing over 50% of the healthcare workforce, nurses provide care to people at all ages. This study advances, at a population level, that high levels of nursing services, measured by nurse density may significantly promote population ageing measured by the percentage of a population over 65 years of age (65yo%).

Methods: Population level data was examined to explore the correlation between nurse density and 65yo%.

A global comparison of nursing and midwifery's and medical efficacy in preventing COVID-19 deaths 2019-2022.

Aim: Compare roles of nurses and midwives and physicians in reducing COVID-19 deaths measured with a case fatality ratio.

Background: The roles and responsibilities of different health disciplines to the COVID-19 pandemic vary. While more difficult to measure, objective assessments of discipline contributions of nurses and midwives and physicians can be viewed through statistical analysis.

A lack of nurse autonomy impacts population health when compared to physician care: an ecological study.

This study highlights that the contribution of nursing is secondary to physicians in overall population health (indexed with life expectancy at birth, e). Scatter plots, bivariate correlation and partial correlation models were performed to analyse the correlations between e and physician healthcare and nursing healthcare respectively. Affluence, urbanization and obesity were incorporated as the potential confounders.

Total meat (flesh) supply may be a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases worldwide.

Consumption of red meat instead of white meat has typically been associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Reflecting actual diet patterns, this study explored the role of total meat (red + white) in predicting CVD incidence. Data from 217 countries were extracted from United Nations agencies for the analyses in five steps.

Are men treated differently in clinical placements during nursing studies? A cross-sectional study.

Aim And Objective: To explore the perceptions of nursing students regarding the treatment of men in nursing during their clinical placement.

Background: Negative placement experiences of men who are nursing students is a risk factor for student attrition. Hence, exploring gender disparity in treatment during placement from both men and women studying nursing will contribute to improving student experience and reducing attrition.

An Example of Inquiry-Based Learning in a Transition to Nursing Practice Curriculum.

Background: Graduate nurses are known to experience transition shock when they enter the workforce. Graduate nurse programs are designed to alleviate aspects of transition shock.

Method: Best practice in development and delivery of transition programs is currently limited in the literature, and there are few examples focusing on curriculum design that can be adapted by health services to develop and support new nurses.

Although in shortage, nursing workforce is still a significant contributor to life expectancy at birth.

Objectives: Previous studies have not fully reported the strength and independency of the correlation of nursing workforce to life expectancy. This study advances that nursing workforce is a major independent contributor to life expectancy at birth (LEB) globally and regionally.

Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted at population level.

Development and psychometric testing of the gender misconceptions of men in nursing (GEMINI) scale among nursing students.

Background: Misconceptions about men in nursing may influence recruitment and retention, further perpetuating the gender diversity imbalance in the nursing workforce. Identifying misconceptions and implementing early intervention strategies to address these deep-rooted stereotypes remain challenging but is considered critical to support students who are commencing a nursing career.

Objective: To develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of the 'nder sconceptions of me in nursng (GEMINI) Scale.

Physician care access plays a significant role in extending global and regional life expectancy.

Background: Previous cross-sectional studies generally did not fully consider the potential confounding factors associated with physician impact on overall population health. This ecological study controlled for health, demographic and socioeconomic confounders while using total physician density for predicting overall population health globally and regionally.

Methods: Ecological data were extracted from the United Nations agencies for 215 populations.

Improving management of needle distress during the journey to dialysis through psychological education and training-the INJECT study feasibility pilot protocol.

Background: Needle-related distress is a common yet poorly recognised and managed problem among haemodialysis (HD) patients. The aim of this pilot study is to test the feasibility and acceptability of the INJECT Intervention-an innovative psychology-based intervention to empower patients to self-manage needle distress with the support of dialysis nurses.

Methods: This investigator-initiated, single-arm, non-randomised feasibility study will take place in a large dialysis service in Adelaide, Australia.

Factors that influence the preceptor role: a comparative study of Saudi and expatriate nurses.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare expatriate and Saudi nursing staff's perceptions of factors that influence their role as preceptors of nursing students.

Methods: Descriptive comparative study using a self-administered survey was completed by a convenience sample of eligible nurses (n=285). It was conducted in five different hospitals within the Ministry of Health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Using 360° Video to Enable Affective Learning in Nursing Education.

Background: The affective domain describes learning associated with feelings, values, and emotions. Although this domain was first described in the late 1960s, a significant emphasis on skills and knowledge still remains. This prominence is evident despite global concerns about standards of practice and the place for empathy and care in nursing education.

Experiences of Post Anaesthetic Unit Recovery Nurse facilitating Advanced Directives in the immediate postanaesthetic period: A phenomenological study.

Aims: The aims of this study were to develop an understanding of the lived experience of the Post Anaesthetic Unit Recovery Nurse facilitating Advanced Directives and implications for patient-centred care.

Design: Interpretive phenomenological analysis.

Methods: Homogenized purposive sampling of six Registered Nurses using in-depth semi-structured interviews.