Background: Undergraduate nursing students are at risk of exposure to clinical related critical incidents. The impact on nursing students and the use of coping mechanisms and processes to make meaning of these distressing experiences are poorly understood.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide a theoretical understanding of the processes that undergraduate nursing students use to make meaning of clinical related critical incidents.
Purpose Of Review: We aim to describe the immunoassays that have been used for myositis autoantibody discovery with a focus on newer methods. We describe recently identified myositis autoantibodies that do not yet form part of routine clinical testing, highlighting what is known about their associated clinical phenotype and potential clues as to their presence.
Recent Findings: Novel approaches to autoantibody detection have been employed in recent years including chemiluminescent immunoassay, phage immunoprecipitation-sequencing and modifications to the more traditional immunoprecipitation technique.
Aim: To discuss strategies for clinical nurse educators to integrate a trauma-informed approach while supporting undergraduate nursing students' learning in the clinical environment.
Background: Undergraduate nursing students' risk of exposure to clinical related critical incidents coupled with their higher rates of personal traumas such as adverse childhood experiences, adds to the complexity of experiential learning. Clinical related critical incidents may compromise nursing students' academic abilities and their well-being.
Semin Arthritis Rheum
December 2024
Objective: To examine the predictors of the occurrence of severe thrombocytopenia and its impact on damage accrual and mortality in SLE patients.
Methods: Factors associated with time to severe thrombocytopenia (platelet count ≤20,000/mm) occurring from the onset of SLE symptoms were assessed by Cox proportional hazards regressions. The association of severe thrombocytopenia with mortality was evaluated by logistic regression analyses while its impact on damage was by negative binomial regression.
SAGE Open Med Case Rep
October 2024
Diagnosis of fluoroscopy-induced radiodermatitis remains challenging for dermatologists. We present a case report where a patient had predictable risks of developing chronic radiodermatitis, yet the diagnostic was delayed for over a year and a half. In the current absence of appropriate follow-ups in some institutions, dermatologists should keep high suspicion for chronic fluoroscopy-induced radiodermatitis when encountering lesions characteristic of radiation dermatitis without a history of radiotherapy, prompting the necessity to inquire about antecedents of fluoroscopy-guided interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The objective of this study was to identify the key characteristics of leaders that support the implementation of innovations in aged care settings.
Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of papers from a large scoping review that identified how leaders supported the implementation of innovations in aged care. Once imported into NVivo12, the findings were deductively coded using the domains of Bloom's taxonomy of learning.
JBI Evid Implement
November 2024
Aim: This study aimed to identify how aged care organizations can foster a culture that supports the implementation of innovation.
Introduction: The aged care sector must innovate to meet clients' evolving needs and increased regulatory requirements. Given the need to account for the values, beliefs, expectations, and assumptions held by a diverse range of stakeholders, implementing innovations within aged care can be exceptionally complex.
Objectives: To identify the predictive factors of first hospitalization and associated variables to the main causes of hospitalizations in lupus patients from a Latin American cohort.
Methods: The first hospitalization after entry into the cohort during these patients' follow-up due to either lupus disease activity and/or infection was examined. Clinical and therapeutic variables were those occurring prior to the first hospitalization.
Background: A dramatic decline in mental health of people worldwide in the early COVID-19 pandemic years has not recovered. In rural and remote Australia, access to appropriate and timely mental health services has been identified as a major barrier to people seeking help for mental ill-health. From 2020 to 2021 a care navigation model, Navicare, was co-designed with rural and remote communities in the Greater Whitsunday Region of Central Queensland in Australia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly transformed the landscape of work and collaboration, impacting design research methodologies and techniques. Co-design approaches have been both negatively and positively affected by the pandemic, prompting a need to investigate and understand the extent of these impacts, changes, and adaptations, specifically in the health sector. Despite the challenges that the pandemic imposed on conducting co-design and related projects, it also encouraged a re-evaluation of co-design practices, leading to innovative solutions and techniques.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To determine the prevalence of eczema among children in New Zealand.
Methods: Population-based retrospective observational study utilising national pharmaceutical dispensing records for topical corticosteroids and emollients for all New Zealand children aged 0-14 years from 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2019. Data are reported using descriptive statistics, with comparisons between ethnicities and socioeconomic quintiles undertaken with rate ratios.
Sociol Health Illn
November 2024
This article identifies the health of the worker as a third source of labour power indeterminacy to be added to the indeterminacy of labour effort and the indeterminacy of labour mobility. The paper clearly differentiates worker health from effort as a distinct source of labour power indeterminacy-something that cannot be guaranteed and that varies for an individual over time. It considers the relationship between worker health as a new source of indeterminacy and the two extant sources of labour power indeterminacy, focussing on the way in which health moderates the relationship between effort and output.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate if a prospective feedback loop that flags older patients at risk of death can reduce non-beneficial treatment at end of life.
Design: Prospective stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial with usual care and intervention phases.
Setting: Three large tertiary public hospitals in south-east Queensland, Australia.
Objective: To describe the types of hospital and out-of-hospital services provided by public geriatric medicine departments in Australia and New Zealand, and to explore head of department (HOD) views on issues in current and future service provision.
Methods: An electronic survey was sent to HODs of public geriatric medicine departments.
Results: Seventy-six (89%) of 85 identified HODs completed the survey.
Objective: Moving into a long-term care facility (LTCF) requires substantial personal, societal and financial investment. Identifying those at high risk of short-term mortality after LTCF entry can help with care planning and risk factor management. This study aimed to: (i) examine individual-, facility-, medication-, system- and healthcare-related predictors for 90-day mortality at entry into an LTCF and (ii) create risk profiles for this outcome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate mortality and morbidity outcomes following open-heart isolated tricuspid valve surgery (TVSx) with medium to long-term follow-up.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: New South Wales public and private hospital admissions between 1 January 2002 and 30 June 2018.
Introduction: Decisions about nurse staffing models are a concern for health systems globally due to workforce retention and well-being challenges. Nurse staffing models range from all Registered Nurse workforce to a mix of differentially educated nurses and aides (regulated and unregulated), such as Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurses and Health Care Aides. Systematic reviews have examined relationships between specific nurse staffing models and client, staff and health system outcomes (eg, mortality, adverse events, retention, healthcare costs), with inconclusive or contradictory results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To examine changes in primary, allied health, selected specialists, and mental health service utilisation by older people in the year before and after accessing home care package (HCP) services.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study using the Registry of Senior Australians Historical National Cohort (≥ 65 years old), including individuals accessing HCP services between 2017 and 2019 (N = 109,558), was conducted. The utilisation of general practice (GP) attendances, health assessments, chronic disease management plans, allied health services, geriatric, pain, palliative, and mental health services, subsidised by the Australian Government Medicare Benefits Schedule, was assessed in the 12 months before and after HCP access, stratified by HCP level (1-2 vs.
Previous research has indicated that liver androgen receptors may play a role in modulating disease. This study aims to investigate the pathophysiology of high-fat diet (HFD) induced dysglycemia in male and female liver androgen receptor knockout (LivARKO) mice. We performed metabolic tests on LivARKO female and male mice fed a HFD or a control diet (from Research Diets Inc.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Extreme heat causes a major health burden, especially for older Australians.
Objective: To assess the impact of extreme heat on older regional and rural Australians, including clinical presentations, social implications, and health-seeking behaviours and adaptations.
Design: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.
Background: Non-beneficial treatment affects a considerable proportion of older people in hospital, and some will choose to decline invasive treatments when they are approaching the end of their life. The Intervention for Appropriate Care and Treatment (InterACT) intervention was a 12-month stepped wedge randomised controlled trial with an embedded process evaluation in three hospitals in Brisbane, Australia. The aim was to increase appropriate care and treatment decisions for older people at the end-of-life, through implementing a nudge intervention in the form of a prospective feedback loop.
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