The state of mixed methods research in nursing: A focused mapping review and synthesis.

Aims: To consider the scope and quality of mixed methods research in nursing.

Design: Focused mapping review and synthesis (FMRS).

Data Sources: Five purposively selected journals: International Journal of Nursing Studies, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, and Journal of Mixed Methods Research.

Education, income and occupation and their influence on the uptake of cervical cancer prevention strategies: A systematic review.

Aims: To report a systematic review of the literature exploring how education, income and occupation influence the uptake of cervical screening and HPV vaccination among eligible women in developed countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, Spain, Germany and Norway.

Background: Cervical cancer remains a highly prevalent disease despite it being largely preventable through cervical screening and HPV vaccination. Incidence and mortality of cervical cancer are unequally distributed among socioeconomic groups, warranting research into how individual socioeconomic factors contribute to this unbalanced uptake of prevention strategies.

A Japanese version of the stressors in nursing students (SINS) scale.

Objectives: To translate and study the factor structure of a Japanese version of the Stressors in Nursing Students scale.

Methods: The Stressors in Nursing Students scale was translated into Japanese and administered to a large cohort ( = 1298) of female Japanese nursing students across five universities and across all four years of the nursing programme. The data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis.

Training nurses in a competency framework to support adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability: the EpAID cluster RCT.

Background: People with an intellectual (learning) disability (ID) and epilepsy have an increased seizure frequency, higher frequencies of multiple antiepileptic drug (AED) use and side effects, higher treatment costs, higher mortality rates and more behavioural problems than the rest of the population with epilepsy. The introduction of nurse-led care may lead to improvements in outcome for those with an ID and epilepsy; however, this has not been tested in a definitive clinical trial.

Objective: To determine whether or not ID nurses, using a competency framework developed to optimise nurse management of epilepsy in people with an ID, can cost-effectively improve clinical and quality-of-life outcomes in the management of epilepsy compared with treatment as usual.

What is 'moral distress'? A narrative synthesis of the literature.

Aims: The aim of this narrative synthesis was to explore the necessary and sufficient conditions required to define moral distress.

Background: Moral distress is said to occur when one has made a moral judgement but is unable to act upon it. However, problems with this narrow conception have led to multiple redefinitions in the empirical and conceptual literature.

The impact of personalisation on people from Chinese backgrounds: qualitative accounts of social care experience.

The limited research that considers people from black and minority ethnic communities' experiences of personalisation tends to focus on personal budgets rather than personalisation per se. This article provides an opportunity to hear the voices of people from Chinese backgrounds and their experiences of personalisation. The study used individual semi-structured interviews and focus groups to collect data from physically disabled people from Chinese backgrounds who lived in England, were aged between 18 and 70, and received social care.

Improving outcomes in adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability (EpAID) using a nurse-led intervention: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Background: In adults with intellectual disability (ID) and epilepsy there are suggestions that improvements in management may follow introduction of epilepsy nurse-led care. However, this has not been tested in a definitive clinical trial and results cannot be generalised from general population studies as epilepsy tends to be more severe and to involve additional clinical comorbidities in adults with ID. This trial investigates whether nurses with expertise in epilepsy and ID, working proactively to a clinically defined role, can improve clinical and quality of life outcomes in the management of epilepsy within this population, compared to treatment as usual.

Conjunctival Mass as an Initial Presentation of Iatrogenic Orbital Encephalocele.

A 46-year-old woman presented with a symptomatic conjunctival mass of the right eye, appearing 2 months after undergoing right frontal craniotomy to excise a meningioma. MRI of the brain revealed a new iatrogenic encephalocele extending into the right temporal orbit. Our opinion is that the conjunctival mass resulted directly from this encephalocele.

Satisfaction with social care: the experiences of people from Chinese backgrounds with physical disabilities.

The satisfaction of social care among service users provides an important indication of how services are performing. Although there is evidence to suggest that people from black and minority ethnic communities experience less satisfaction with social care than majority groups, there is little literature which focuses specifically on people from Chinese backgrounds in England. This article provides an opportunity to hear the voices of people from Chinese backgrounds and their experiences of social care for a physical disability.

Patients' experiences of living beyond colorectal cancer: a qualitative study.

Purpose Of The Research: This paper is a report of a study of the experiences of individuals with colorectal cancer in the period following their cancer treatment and the physical, psychological and social aspects associated with adjusting to everyday life.

Methods And Sample: Qualitative interviews using a phenomenological approach were conducted with a purposive sample of 13 individuals who had completed active curative treatment for colorectal cancer.

Results: Study findings suggest that colorectal cancer survivors employ a broad range of techniques and approaches to manage adjustment to everyday life such as goal-setting, managing informal networks and adopting strategies for physical and emotional recovery.

Innovations aimed at improving the physical health of the seriously mentally ill: an integrative review.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this paper is to report an integrative review of the literature that focused on innovations aimed at enhancing the physical health of people with serious mental illness.

Background: Despite the abundance of literature that highlights the relationship between serious mental illness and physical ill health, the provision of physical health care for the seriously mental ill remains a challenge. Many different strategies have been developed, which endeavour to address the poor physical health of people with serious mental illness.

Qualitative insights into the role and practice of Epilepsy Specialist Nurses in England: a focus group study.

Aim:   This article is a report of a study that aimed to explore Epilepsy Specialist Nurses' perceptions of their professional role and the factors that may affect their practice.

Background:   Previous studies have demonstrated high patient satisfaction with the Epilepsy Specialist Nurse. Although UK national guidelines recommend that all individuals with epilepsy should have access to an epilepsy specialist nurse, many National Health Service trusts disregard these guidelines.

Self-administered acupuncture as an alternative to deliberate self-harm: a feasibility study.

The aim of this mixed methods feasibility study was to demonstrate the acceptability, practicality, and safety of training patients who regularly use deliberate self harm (DSH) to self-administer acupuncture as an alternative coping skill for emotional distress. Ten adult patients with a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder who regularly self-harmed were recruited to the study following baseline assessment by a psychiatrist. An acupuncturist taught participants to self-acupuncture.

A comparison of elderly care nursing in the UK and Japan.

Aim: The aim of this study was to gain insight into registered nurses' experiences of caring for older people in the UK and Japan.

Method: Critical incident technique was used because of its ability to capture actual incidents from practice. Written, anonymous self-report data were collected during 2010.

Ottawa 25+--'All aboard the Dazzling Bandwagon'--developing personal skills: what remains for the future?

The remit of this paper is to identify what might be the future direction of one of the Ottawa Charter's five main action areas; developing personal skills (DPS). It is contested that this was never going to be an easy task. This opinion article argues that, while a watchful eye should be kept on evolving and innovative DPS strategy and programmes that Ottawa principles generally espouse, that type of activity is not representative of the current location and practice of many health practitioners--particularly clinically located health professionals.

The role of midwives and health visitors in promoting intergenerational language maintenance in the bilingual setting: perceptions of parents and health professionals.

Aims And Objectives: The increasing status and regard of indigenous minority languages across Europe, means the advantages of bilingualism for individuals and communities are now well established. We set out to elicit parents' and health professionals' views of the role of health visitors and midwives in promoting bilingualism in the family and to consider whether health professionals acknowledge the contribution that bilingualism makes to public health.

Background: A three-year study was completed to measure the impact of a language transmission initiative which depends on the input of midwives and health visitors with new parents and how its effect could be improved.

Nursing students and the issue of voice: a qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: This paper reports the findings of part of a larger study that explored the empowerment of nursing students in clinical practice. The focus here is on the phenomenon of 'voice' and the extent to which nursing students are able to exercise voice during their clinical practice experiences.

Background: There is evidence to suggest that nursing students are 'silenced' in clinical practice and that they are unable to make their voices heard, even when they witness poor nursing practice.

Exploring decision making in intellectual disability nursing practice: a qualitative study.

Due to the dearth of relevant research, intellectual disability nurses may have difficulty identifying sources of evidence on which they can base their clinical decisions. The aim of the present research was to explore how intellectual disability nurses make decisions and how their decisions are influenced by evidence. The method was guided by interpretative phenomenology and the analysis adopted an idiographic approach.

Empowerment and being valued: a phenomenological study of nursing students' experiences of clinical practice.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the empowerment of nursing students in clinical practice. This paper focuses on 'being valued' as an important element of empowerment.

Background: Empowerment of nursing students is necessary in order for them to foster a sense of control and self-efficacy for those in their care.

Empowerment of nursing students in clinical practice: spheres of influence.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study exploring the empowerment of nursing students in clinical practice.

Background: There is a great deal of literature regarding empowerment in nursing but most focuses on the empowerment of patients and registered nurses. There is very little regarding the empowerment of nursing students.