Evaluation of storage parameters of platelet-rich plasma in functional assay of epithelial gap repair.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP), produced from autologous blood and containing growth factors, has shown promise in treating various conditions, including diabetic wounds. However, as expected, patient compliance is low in the context of repeated treatments as required for hard-to-heal wounds. This study investigates the efficacy of PRP stored under refrigeration for up to 2 weeks in promoting in-vitro human epithelial cell gap closure.

Attitudes of nurses, paramedics, and medics towards security prisoners: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Security prisoners in Israel are those imprisoned due to offenses involving harming state security or from nationalistic motivations. On the one hand, they are accused of a serious criminal offense that harmed state security, while on the other hand they have a right to healthcare like any human being. According to the Theory of Planned Behavior, an attitude is one of three components that predict a behavior intention.

Lived experiences: Growing up with a seriously mentally ill parent.

Introduction: Individuals with serious mental illness often have persistent and disruptive symptoms. These can profoundly affect their children's lives, exposing them to adverse social and psychological conditions. Such conditions can result in traumatic lived experiences during childhood, which can carry over into adulthood, influencing their self-perceptions and shaping their attitudes toward themselves and society.

Choosing a Nursing Career During a Global Health Event: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Although in the past, the decision to enter the nursing profession was mainly due to intrinsic motives, more recent generations present additional extrinsic career choice motives. The motivation of choosing a nursing career may be affected by global health events, such as COVID-19.

Purpose: To examine the motivation for choosing a nursing career during COVID-19.

Educating nursing students for cultural competence in emergencies: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Racial and ethnic minorities suffer significantly more than others in the wake of disasters. Despite the growing recognition of the importance of culturally competent health services, systematic cultural competence training in the medical education system is still scarce, especially in the field of emergency. The current study aimed to examine the effectiveness of an online culturally informed intervention for increasing cultural competence in emergencies among nursing students.

Post-Bariatric Surgery Care in Israeli Adolescents: A Qualitative Study.

Undergoing bariatric surgery is a life-changing experience for adolescents. However, little is known about post-bariatric surgery management among Israeli adolescents. We aimed to identify the post-operative needs and support from a qualitative aspect.

Toward medical cannabis education in Israel.

Objectives: To assess knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding medical cannabis among Israeli medical, nursing, social work and other health related students as well as to outline the formation of an instrument for standardized data collection on these topics.

Methods: An invitation to participate with a link for the online survey was sent to all students pursuing a degree in medicine, nursing, social work, and other health disciplines in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The instrument included 32 items that measured knowledge, attitudes and beliefs regarding medical cannabis.

Attitudes and knowledge about medical cannabis among Israeli and American nursing students.

Background: Although medical cannabis regulations are emerging in many places around the world, a contentious conundrum remains within the medical establishment regarding the appropriate part that cannabis may have in the provision of health care. Nurses have an indispensable role in the care management of patients, and given the consideration of cannabis as a possible treatment, they are warranted to be aware of its medical properties, as well as to be able to adequately answer patient queries. Nevertheless, very little is currently known about nurses' perceptions related to medical cannabis.

Nurses' perceptions of the role of health organisations in building professional commitment: Insights from an israeli cross-sectional study during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aims: To reveal the factors associated with nurses' professional commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nursing Division at the Israeli Ministry of Health and partners conducted a study to examine the nurses' perceptions towards a set of personal and professional circumstances that may affect their performance.

Method: A cross-sectional Web-based study was conducted in Israel.

Does religiosity matter? University student attitudes and beliefs toward medical cannabis.

Objectives: To assess the relationship between religiosity and medical cannabis (MC) knowledge, attitudes and beliefs among university medical and allied health (i.e., nursing and social work) students.

Religiosity as a Substance Use Protective Factor Among Female College Students.

Research exists about religiosity as a substance use protective factor. However, there is little attention of this issue regarding Israeli female college students. Undergraduate religious and secular students were studied.

Male Nurses in Israel: Barriers, Motivation, and How They Are Perceived by Nursing Students.

The current worldwide nursing shortage remains a challenge for the nursing profession. Encouraging men to become nurses and, thereby, increasing the number of practitioners are crucial factors in facing this challenge. The historiography of nursing presents nursing as "women's work," based on the assumption that it is inherently appropriate for women only.

Religiosity: Its Impact on Coping Styles Among Women Undergoing Fertility Treatment.

The Israeli worldview places great significance on childbearing. This could create emotional and ethical difficulties for women coping with fertility issues in addition to their treatments. This study examined the relations between coping strategies and level of religiosity in 159 women undergoing infertility treatment.

The effect of supportive emergency department nursing care on pain reduction of patients with Red Sea marine wildlife injuries.

Introduction: The emergency department at Yoseftal hospital in Eilat is on the shore of the Red Sea, and it is visited by patients with marine wildlife injuries. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of supportive nursing care on the pain level of patients with Red Sea marine wildlife injuries.

Method: A prospective quantitative study including 102 patients admitted to the emergency department.

Health-related quality of life and sense of coherence among partners of women with breast cancer in Israel.

Purpose: To compare HRQOL of husbands of women with non-metastatic breast cancer to husbands of healthy women. Additionally, to examine the impact of Sense of Coherence (SOC), socio-demographic, and clinical variables, on HRQOL of spouses in both groups.

Method: This study used a comparative, matched, convenience sample.

A case report of gunshot terror attack in pregnancy: implications for forensic nursing.

We present a case report of a third trimester pregnant woman who endured a gunshot terror attack. We demonstrate the complexity involved in the treatment of mother-infant, and suggest implementing the role of forensic nurse in Israel as a way to enhance the treatment of trauma patients within the hospital setting.

Improvements and difficulties in postoperative pain management.

Background: This review examines postoperative pain (POP) management from the perspectives of healthcare providers, patients, and institutions. It summarizes current thought about POP, including difficulties and recent improvements in the field.

Methods: Studies were identified from PubMed, MEDLINE, and the search engine Google Scholar and by hand-searching reference lists from review articles and research papers (1998-2009).