Evaluation of the feasibility of an Education-Career pathway in Healthcare for Older People (ECHO) for early career nurses.

Background: Rapid population ageing is driving demand for qualified gerontological nurses. Yet, early career nurse attrition and limited focus on retention in the speciality limits supply.

Objectives: To test the feasibility and acceptability of an Education-Career pathway in Healthcare for Older People (ECHO) intervention for early career nurses to improve retention and capability in gerontological nursing.

Protecting older people living in care homes from COVID-19: a protocol for a mixed-methods study to understand the challenges and solutions to implementing social distancing and isolation.

Introduction: Older people living in residential and nursing care homes often have complex needs and are at high risk of poor health outcomes and mortality, especially if they contract COVID-19. Care homes use infection prevention and control measures such as social distancing and isolating residents to protect them from COVID-19. The care home sector has stated that implementing social distancing and isolation when caring for residents is a significant challenge.

Factors affecting high secure forensic mental health nursing workforce sustainability: Perspectives from frontline nurses and stakeholders.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: There are insufficient nurses to meet current demand for mental health care. This is an international concern. Within England, the impact of staff shortages on the quality of patient care in forensic high secure settings has been highlighted by the national regulatory body for hospitals.

Evaluating a specialist education programme for nurses and allied health professionals working in older people care: A qualitative analysis of motivations and impact.

Background: Developing clinical leaders is essential for high-quality, safe care for older people. Fundamental to achieving this is specialist continuing professional development for nurses and allied health professionals.

Objectives: To investigate the motivations of nurses and allied health professionals to undertake a national specialist gerontological programme, the Older Persons Fellowship, and its impacts on their development and on older people care.

An integrative review of nursing staff experiences in high secure forensic mental health settings: Implications for recruitment and retention strategies.

Aims: To identify the experiences of nursing in high secure forensic mental health settings that may affect staff recruitment and retention.

Background: Recruitment and retention of Registered Nurses is a vital international concern in the field of mental health. The high secure forensic setting presents unique challenges for the nurse.

Barriers to older adults seeking sexual health advice and treatment: A scoping review.

Background: Sexual health is an integral part of overall health in older age. Research consistently reports that heterosexual and queer older people tend not to disclose sexual concerns and difficulties which increases the risks for sexually transmitted diseases. Older people are often absent from policies and information programmes and healthcare providers experience difficulties in initiating conversations around sexual health and history.

Models and frameworks that enable nurses to develop their public health practice-A scoping study.

Aims And Objectives: This scoping review commissioned by the Public Health England, WHO collaborating Centre, aimed to explore the models and frameworks which enable nurses to develop their public health practice and deliver public health interventions to individuals, families and communities.

Background: There is a plethora of literature regarding the role, activities and scope of practice undertaken by public health nurses across the world. However, only two reviews have explored the models and frameworks used for public health nursing practice.

Health visitor education for today's Britain: Messages from a narrative review of the health visitor literature.

Objectives: This paper draws on a narrative review of the literature, commissioned to support the Health Visitor Implementation Plan, and aimed at identifying messages about the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by health visitors to work within the current system of health care provision.

Design: The scoping study and narrative review used three complementary approaches: a broad search, a structured search, and a seminal paper search to identify empirical papers from the health visitor literature for review. The key inclusion criteria were messages of relevance for practice.

[Teenage and young adult cancer: how to make effective disclosures?].

Announcement of diagnosis is a critical step in establishing a trust-based relationship of quality between patient and physician. Disclosing "bad news" is a difficult and sensitive task which has direct consequences on psychological, emotional and relational levels, as well as on therapeutic management. This is a potentially traumatic experience which requires a long process of integration and psychological adaptation.

[Thoracotomy and thoracoscopy in the treatment of patent arterial duct in infants weighing less than 2500 g].

Background: Thoracoscopic clipping of the patent ductus arteriosus is an alternative to conventional surgical closure via thoracotomy in low birth weight infants. The aim of this study is to compare of these two groups of patients for the last 11 years.

Methods: We reported the data of 127 small children's who underwent standard transaxillary thoracotomy (101 patients - Group I) and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for patent ductus arteriosus clipping (26 patients - Group II).

[Anesthesiological provision of patients with tachyarrhythmias during radio-frequency ablations].

The paper presents the results of anesthesia in 55 patients aged 18 to 70 years during radio-frequency ablation for different types of tachycardias.

[Features of lipoxygenase from cells of Mortierella species mushrooms].

The specific activity of lipoxygenase from several strains of the zygomycete Mortierella varied from 1.02 to 2.02 microMol diene per min per mg protein).

[Microcirculatory changes in respiratory insufficiency].

The paper describes the results of study of 71 patients with chronic diseases of the lungs. The methods of investigation were directed at eliciting changes in extravascular, vascular and intravascular factors of the microcirculatory system. Considerable disorders of the microcirculation have been found in respiratory insufficiency and their dependence of the stage of insufficiency.