Elements of a care pathway for human trafficking victims in emergency departments: A mapping review.

Background: Human trafficking, a form of modern slavery, is a global health problem. Human trafficking victims may need health care while they are being exploited, and traffickers often take victims to emergency departments (EDs) if their injuries and illness prevent them from working. Healthcare professionals in EDs could help combat human trafficking; however, 85% of human trafficking victims in EDs remain unidentified.

A programme theory for a transition programme for novice nurses in emergency departments: A realist review.

Aims: To develop a programme theory for a transition programme for novice nurses working in emergency departments.

Design: A realist review was conducted, guided by the Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Synthesis-Evolving Standards publication standards.

Data Sources: PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, and the Wiley Online Library.

Clinical practice guidelines for person-centred handover practices in emergency departments: a scoping review.

Objective: To review the available information on clinical practice guidelines for person-centred and current handover practices between emergency care practitioners (ECPs) and healthcare professionals in emergency departments (EDs). Collating existing clinical practice guidelines may improve handover practices.

Eligibility Criteria: Clinical practice guidelines for person-centred handover practices between ECPs and healthcare professionals in EDs.

The effect of forced-air warming blanket position during spinal surgery on patients' intra-operative body temperature.

Background: The use of body-warming systems is recommended by international anaesthesia societies for patients undergoing surgery. Limited research is however available on the influence of positioning of forced-air warming blankets for patients undergoing spinal surgery. This study aimed to investigate how patients' intra-operative body temperature was affected by the position of forced-air warming blankets while undergoing spinal surgery on a spinal table.

A concept analysis of person-centred handover practices: The meaning in emergency departments.

Background: Transfer of patients from the prehospital to the in-hospital environment is a frequent occurrence requiring a handover process. Habitually, emergency care practitioners and healthcare professionals focus on patient care activities, not prioritising person-centred handover practices and not initiating person-centred care.

Aim: The aim of this concept analysis was to define the concept person centred handover practices.

Reaching consensus on the definition of person-centred handover practices in emergency departments: A modified online Delphi.

Aim: To reach consensus on the definition and attributes of 'person-centred handover practices' in emergency departments.

Background: Handover practices between emergency care practitioners and healthcare professionals in emergency departments are important and should be conducted meticulously. Person-centred handover practices may enhance the delivery of person-centred care in emergency departments.

Documentation of wounds in emergency departments through a forensic lens.

Background: Nurses document wounds to direct and evaluate the care. People admitted to emergency departments with wounds should be regarded as potential forensic patients, requiring meticulous documentation for evidence purposes.

Aim: To explore the documentation of wounds in emergency departments through a forensic lens and compare it between different levels of emergency departments.

Healthcare professionals and pregnant and post-natal women's perceptions of interprofessional collaboration in a maternity care facility: A qualitative study from Botswana.

Objective: To explore the perceptions of healthcare professionals and pregnant and post-natal women regarding interprofessional collaboration in a maternity care setting in Botswana, a low-to-middle-income country in Sub-Sahara Africa.

Design: A descriptive qualitative design using in-depth interviews with forty participants, including healthcare professionals and women in maternity wards. Data were transcribed and thematically analysed.

Considerations for promoting the implementation of work-based interprofessional education programmes: A scoping review.

Background: Effective inter-professional collaboration may improve healthcare outcomes, including maternal and child healthcare settings where unfavourable outcomes are often due to communication and collaboration failures.

Objective: Explore the considerations for promoting the implementation of work-based interprofessional education programmes.

Methods: A scoping review guided by the methodological framework of Arksery and O'Malley was used to analyse 28 articles published between 2000 and 2020.

Second victim experiences of healthcare providers after adverse events: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Adverse events in healthcare are inevitable as most treatments and investigations have the potential to cause harm. Healthcare providers often witness or are involved in adverse events, putting them at risk of becoming second victims, which may further impact patient safety.

Aim: The researchers report on the physical and psychological symptoms experienced by healthcare providers following adverse events during patient care as well as their perceptions of the quality of support received and the desired forms of support following adverse events.

Factors affecting the implementation of a complex health intervention to improve insulin management in primary care: A SWOT analysis.

Background:  In South Africa, initiating and managing insulin in primary care for people living with type 2 diabetes (PLWD) is a major challenge. To address these challenges, a multidisciplinary team from the University of Pretoria (South Africa) developed the Tshwane Insulin project (TIP) intervention.

Aim:  To determine internal and external factors, either facilitators or barriers, that could influence the implementation of the TIP intervention and propose strategies to ensure sustainability.

Professional quality of life of nurses in critical care units: Influence of demographic characteristics.

Background: Professional quality of life, measured as compassion satisfaction, is a prerequisite for nurses working in intensive care units where patients rely on their care. Nurses who experience compassion satisfaction, or good professional quality of life, engage enthusiastically with all work activities and render quality patient care. In contrast, compassion fatigue eventually leads to disengagement from work activities and unsatisfactory patient outcomes.

The accuracy of nurse-led triage of adult patients in the emergency centre of urban private hospitals.

Background: : Triage is applied in emergency centres (ECs) to assign degrees of urgency to illnesses or injuries to decide in which order to treat patients, especially when there are many patients or casualties, facilitating the allocation of scarce medical resources. A triage nurse determines triage priority by assessing patients using an established triage tool with specific criteria. The South African Triage Scale is widely used in South African ECs.

A process to gain access for research in the clinical setting.

Researchers and clinical nurses need to collaborate to develop the clinical setting. Negotiating access to do research in the clinical setting can be challenging. The task of gaining access is often omitted and scarcely described in the literature.

Stakeholders' perceptions of family-centred care in the intensive care unit: An associative group analysis.

Aim: To explore different stakeholders' including nurses, health care professionals and family member's perceptions of ideal family-centred care in an intensive care unit.

Research Design And Methods: We used a mixed method approach to identify perceptions of family-centred care with 60 stakeholders of equal numbers who voluntarily participated in the study. Data were collected over one month using an associative group analysis method.

Integrative therapies in intensive care units: A scoping review.

Aim: We reviewed literature describing the incorporation of integrative therapies in intensive care units. We aimed to elicit an overall picture of research and find existing knowledge gaps on this topic.

Design: We conducted a scoping review guided by Arksey and O'Malley's methodological framework and were guided by the PRISMA-ScR Checklist.

Important factors for planning nurse staffing in the emergency department: A consensus study.

Introduction: Planning adequate nurse staffing in the emergency department (ED) is challenging. Although there are models to determine nurse staffing in EDs, these models do not consider all the factors. Inadequate nurse staffing causes overcrowding, poor quality of patient care, increased hospital costs, poor patient outcomes and high levels of burnout amongst nurses.

Length of stay and contributing factors in elderly patients who have undergone hip fracture surgery in a tertiary hospital in South Africa.

Background: Length of stay and factors that contribute to length of stay in elderly patients who have undergone hip fracture surgery is under researched in developing countries, including South Africa. The purpose of this study was to describe the factors that increase length of stay (LOS) among elderly patients who have had hip fracture surgery.

Methods: A retrospective review of patient records of elderly (>65 years) patients who had hip fracture surgery in a public hospital in South Africa.

Forensic patients in the emergency department: Who are they and how should we care for them?

Background: Patients who suffer violent, crime related injuries are likely to seek medical assistance in emergency departments. Forensic patients may not disclose the cause of their injuries leading to the impairment of evidence. We explored healthcare providers' perceptions of forensic patients and how they should be cared for.

Intradialytic hypertension during chronic haemodialysis and subclinical fluid overload assessed by bioimpedance spectroscopy.

Background: Intradialytic hypertension (IDH) increases morbidity and mortality. The prevalence in South Africa is unknown. The pathogenesis is unclear, but it has been suggested that IDH may be due to subclinical fluid overload.

Requirements for reflection in the critical care environment.

Background: Reflection is recognised as an important method for practice development. The importance of reflection is well documented in the literature, but the requirements for reflection remain unclear.

Objectives: To explore and describe the requirements for reflection in the critical care environment as viewed by educators of qualified critical care nurses.