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.

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.

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.

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.

The Balanced Scorecard: a tool to monitor IPL curriculum implementation: January 2020.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. : Implementing interprofessional learning (IPL) in health profession curriculum is difficult despite widespread acknowledgement of the importance of interprofessional collaborative health care practice.

The management of patients with acute abdominal pain in the emergency department: A qualitative study of nurse perceptions.

Background: Acute abdominal pain is a common reason for presentation to the emergency department. Understanding the role of nurses involved in management of acute abdominal pain is important for improving patient care and outcomes. The aim of this study was to understand the perceptions of emergency nurses in the management of acute abdominal pain.

Providing high-quality fundamental care for patients with acute abdominal pain.

Purpose: Globally, acute abdominal pain (AAP) is one of the most common reasons for emergency admissions, yet little is known about how this patient group experiences the delivery of fundamental care across the acute care delivery chain. The purpose of this paper is to describe how patients with AAP experienced fundamental care across their acute care presentation, and to explicate the health professional behaviours, reported by patients, that contributed to their positive experiences.

Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative descriptive study, using repeated reflective interviews, was analysed thematically ( n=10 patients).

Clinical protocols for adults with acute abdominal pain in Australian emergency departments.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Patients with acute abdominal pain are a common presentation in hospital emergency departments; however, international studies have demonstrated that hospitals often lack clinical protocols to guide care. This study aimed to investigate whether Australian hospital emergency departments have acute abdominal pain clinical protocols, identify hospital-level predictors of the presence of these clinical protocols, and assess the quality of protocols.

Methods: A survey was sent to all Australian hospitals with emergency departments, collecting data on hospital characteristics and the presence of acute abdominal pain clinical protocols.

Embedding fundamental care in the pre-registration nursing curriculum: Results from a pilot study.

International evidence suggests nursing is not providing fundamental care consistently or adequately, resulting in poor outcomes for patients and healthcare systems. One possible reason for this inadequate care delivery is nursing education, with fundamental care often implicit or invisible in nursing curricula. To understand how best to teach fundamental care to pre-registration (pre-licensure) students, we developed and piloted a six-week intervention that incorporated into the first-year curriculum a more explicit focus on fundamental care.

Evaluating student learning outcomes in oral health knowledge and skills.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate whether a set of oral health resources designed for workforce training was relevant for students undertaking an entry-level nursing or aged care qualification.

Background: Oral health is one of the most neglected aspects of nursing care experienced by older people. Despite efforts to improve aged care worker oral health knowledge and skills, one-off training and rapid staff turnover have hindered the success of workplace programmes.

Experiences of healthcare professionals of having their significant other admitted to an acute care facility: a qualitative systematic review.

Background: Most healthcare professionals at some time will experience having a significant other admitted to an acute care hospital. The knowledge and understanding that these individuals possess because of their professional practice can potentially alter this experience. Expectations of staff and other family members (FMs) can potentially increase the burden on these health professionals.