Preparing New Graduate Nurses for Patient Rescue: An Experimental Quantitative Study.

A patient deterioration educational program was offered to new graduate nurses. Pre and post self-confidence scores were compared, and competency performance was evaluated during a simulation. The results indicate that most of the participants successfully demonstrated simulation competencies, and there was a statistically significant improvement in self-confidence scores.

Meeting our students' educational needs during a global pandemic: Creating online clinical learning experiences.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the conversion of in-person simulations into online evolving case study activities in an undergraduate nursing curriculum as a result of COVID-19 precautions. The School of Nursing at Eastern Kentucky University utilized technological resources to provide meaningful online learning activities to meet student learning outcomes. The key teaching strategies to maintain were application and synthesis of knowledge through guided reflective activities and discussion.

Building Resilience Through Sport in Young People With Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Interventions focused on young people at risk of anti-social and criminal behaviour frequently involve physical exercise and/or participation in sporting activities as a primary vehicle to bring about behavioural change in both the short to medium term. Anecdotal evidence suggests that sporting activities positively influence individual well-being alongside a sense of purpose and belonging centred around sporting clubs and activities. Empirically, participation in sport has been identified as a key resilience factor for young people with numerous Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and investment and policy initiatives target investment in these opportunities.

Patient Deterioration Simulation Education and New Graduate Nurses' Self-Confidence and Competence: A Pilot Study.

A rural community hospital provided a pilot patient deterioration simulation education for new graduate nurses in an attempt to advance the utilization of an existing rapid response team. Pre- and post-intervention self-confidence scores demonstrated a large effect size and a clinically significant eta squared value (.48).

Participants' experiences of care during a randomized controlled trial comparing a lay-facilitated angina management programme with usual care: a qualitative study using focus groups.

Aim: This paper is a report of a qualitative study conducted as part of a randomized controlled trial comparing a lay-facilitated angina management programme with usual care. Its aim was to explore participants' beliefs, experiences, and attitudes to the care they had received during the trial, particularly those who had received the angina management intervention.

Background: Angina affects over 50 million people worldwide.

Randomized controlled trial of a lay-facilitated angina management programme.

Aims: This article reports a randomized controlled trial of lay-facilitated angina management (registered trial acronym: LAMP).

Background: Previously, a nurse-facilitated angina programme was shown to reduce angina while increasing physical activity, however most people with angina do not receive a cardiac rehabilitation or self-management programme. Lay people are increasingly being trained to facilitate self-management programmes.

Vascular complications of prosthetic inter-vertebral discs.

Five consecutive cases of prosthetic inter-vertebral disc displacement with severe vascular complications on revisional surgery are described. The objective of this case report is to warn spinal surgeons that major vascular complications are likely with anterior displacement of inter-vertebral discs. We have not been able to find a previous report on vascular complications associated with anterior displacement of prosthetic inter-vertebral discs.