The impact of perinatal maternal stress on the maternal and infant gut and human milk microbiomes: A scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to review the research evidence regarding the impact of perinatal maternal stress on the maternal and infant gut and human milk microbiomes.

Introduction: Perinatal stress which refers to psychological stress experienced by individuals during pregnancy and the postpartum period is emerging as a public health concern. Early exposure of infants to perinatal maternal stress can potentially lead to metabolic, immune, and neurobehavioral disorders that extend into adulthood.

Evaluating the process of practice enhancement for exclusive breastfeeding (PEEB): a participatory action research approach for clinical innovation.

Background: Despite the known benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, global rates remain below recommended targets, with Ireland having one of the lowest rates in the world. This study explores the efficacy of Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Work-Based Learning Groups (WBLGs) to enhance breastfeeding practices within Irish healthcare settings from the perspective of WBLG participants and facilitators.

Methods: Employing a PAR approach, interdisciplinary healthcare professionals across maternity, primary, and community care settings (n = 94) participated in monthly WBLGs facilitated by three research and practice experts.

Exploring individuals' experiences of hope in mental health recovery: Having a sense of possibility.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Mental health recovery is acknowledged as a process of transformation and a way of living a meaningful life despite the presence of mental ill-health. Experiencing hope has been articulated as intrinsic to service users experience of a meaningful life. The social construction of mental illness and stigma are recognised as barriers to experiencing hope.

Advanced nurse and midwife practitioners' experience of interprofessional collaboration when implementing evidence-based practice into routine care: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Aim: To understand advanced nurse and midwife practitioners' experience of interprofessional collaboration in implementing evidence-based practice into routine care.

Design: A qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Methods: A purposeful sample of 10 Registered Advanced Nurse and Midwife Practitioners from a range of practice settings in the Republic of Ireland participated in semi-structured interviews over a 10-month timeframe.

The nurse bombarded, consumed and vulnerable: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of mental health nurses' self-care at work.

Introduction: Self-care is essential for nurses' wellbeing, with stress posing a major barrier. Research into self-care is often absorbed into studies of burnout or resilience. Understanding lived experiences of influences on nurses' self-care practices is essential.

Shared decision-making with adults transitioning to long-term care: A scoping review.

Background: Transitions to long-term care are challenging for individuals and often associated with a loss of autonomy. Positive experiences are noted, especially when decisions involve the individual in a person-centred way which are respectful of the person's human rights. One approach which facilitates self-determination during a transitional period is shared decision-making, but there is a lack of clarity on the nature and extent of research evidence in this area.

Breastfeeding skills training for health care professionals: A systematic review.

Background: Breastfeeding is a public health issue and the response to the low rates in the Global North needs to be multi-faceted. Within this context healthcare professionals have an important role to play in the overall multi-dimensional promotion and support of breastfeeding. As a learned skill, there is a fundamental need to improve breastfeeding skills amongst healthcare professionals.

Exploring individuals' experiences of hope in mental health recovery: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: The delivery of mental health recovery orientated acre is a requirement of mental health professionals and an acknowledged desired outcome for individuals presenting with mental health issues. Hope has been recognized as one of 5 key processes of mental health recovery, and critically as the key catalyst of recovery. Mental health nurses are required to be competent in cultivating service user hope.

Implementing public health nursing training for Ireland's National Healthy Childhood Programme.

Unlabelled: Public health nurses (PHNs) in Ireland provide preventative child health. An evidence-based National Healthy Childhood Program (NHCP) has been in development since 2016. The final program implementation, including training all PHNs coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Public health nursing education in Ireland and Norway: A comparative analysis.

Public health, primary health care, and nursing are founding principles of public health nursing. Thus, the underpinning curriculum needs to reflect these core principles. Public health nursing educators sought to delve deeper into curricula and training of public health nurse (PHNs) in Ireland and Norway OBJECTIVE: To compare PHNs' educational training in Ireland and Norway through a collaborative process DESIGN: This study used a descriptive comparative design SAMPLE: A panel of expert educators (the authors) compared national Public health nursing education strategies, guidelines, and curricula used to train PHN students RESULTS: Four core categories emerged from the analysis: general characteristics, theoretical and empirical knowledge base for PHNs practice, applying theory to clinical practice, and professional/ethical dimensions for practice.

Transitioning to long-term care for older adults with intellectual disabilities: A concept analysis.

Aim: To undertake a concept analysis of transitioning to long-term care for older adults with intellectual disabilities.

Background: Individuals with an intellectual disability are experiencing increased longevity which is associated with an increase in transitions in later life to long-term care. Their experience of later life transitions is likely to be different to the general older population.

Factors influencing women's perceptions of choice and control during pregnancy and birth: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Women across the world value choice and control throughout their maternity care experiences. In response to this health policy and frameworks are adapting and developing. The concepts of choice and control are extrinsically complex and open to interpretation by healthcare professionals and service users, with the two not necessarily aligning.

Nurse Practitioners' Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice Into Routine Care: A Scoping Review.

Background: Implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) is essential for ensuring high-quality health care at minimum cost. Although all nurses have a responsibility to implement EBP at an individual patient level, nurse practitioners (NPs) as clinical leaders have additional responsibilities in leading and collaborating with transdisciplinary teams to implement EBP across patient groups and embed practice change into routine care.

Aim: To explore the factors affecting the implementation of EBP into routine care by NPs.

The experiences of mothers with preterm infants within the first-year post discharge from NICU: social support, attachment and level of depressive symptoms.

Background: The estimated global premature birth rate for 2014 was 10.6%, equating to an estimate of 14.84 million live premature births.

The development and psychometric testing of the Perinatal Infant Care Social Support (PICSS) instrument.

Background: Social support facilitates a woman's transition to motherhood. This major developmental transition can be stressful as it includes adaptation of self as well as learning new infant care practice skills. Although a number of instruments have been developed to measure social support, none have been developed or underpinned by theory in the context of perinatal infant care practices.

Influence of periconception smoking behavior on birth defect risk.

Background: Smoking is one of the most important modifiable risk factors for adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Smoking during pregnancy has been associated with fetal growth restriction, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and chronic adult diseases. Existing research has evaluated the risk of smoking on congenital defects.

A falls case summary: Application of the public health nursing intervention wheel.

Background: The Public Health Intervention Wheel (PHIW) is a population-based practice model that encompasses three levels of practice (community, systems, and individual/family) and 17 public health interventions. Each intervention and practice level contributes to improving population health. Public health nurses (PHNs) provide care at the three levels of practice.

Conceptualising a model to guide nursing and midwifery in the community guided by an evidence review.

Background: Successful models of nursing and midwifery in the community delivering healthcare throughout the lifespan and across a health and illness continuum are limited, yet necessary to guide global health services. Primary and community health services are the typical points of access for most people and the location where most care is delivered. The scope of primary healthcare is complex and multifaceted and therefore requires a practice framework with sound conceptual and theoretical underpinnings.

Transitional care interventions: Relevance for nursing in the community.

Objectives: The coordination and integration of health care is compromised by complex challenges related to transitions between care settings, greater prevalence of chronic health conditions, and older individuals with increasing levels of dependency. Transitional care incorporates a broad range of services designed to provide care continuity. This systematic review aims to synthesize and present findings regarding the relevance of transitional care interventions to community nursing.

Normalising breastfeeding within a formula feeding culture: An Irish qualitative study.

Background: Breastfeeding rates in Ireland are among the lowest in Europe. Breastfeeding groups can provide support, information, and friendship for women. However, there is little research exploring community breastfeeding groups led by Public Health Nurses providing universal maternal and child care to all postnatal mothers in the community in Ireland.

Prevalence of self-neglect in the caseloads of public health nurses.

Background: The extent of self-neglect on public health nurses' (PHNs) caseloads in Ireland is unknown. People who self-neglect may be vulnerable or hidden and, as a consequence, difficult to profile. PHNs in Ireland profile their areas to identify the nursing needs of their population.

Uncertainty: A little bit not sure. Parental concern about child growth or development.

Delays in child growth or development are significant problems for children, their families and population health. Eliciting parental concerns as early as possible to promote child growth and development requires close collaborative working with parents. There is evidence that parents delay expressing concern and that health-care professionals are not always effective at eliciting and attending to parental concerns.

Self-neglect: a case study and implications for clinical practice.

Self-neglect is a worldwide and serious public health issue that can have serious adverse outcomes and is more common in older people. Cases can vary in presentation, but typically present as poor self-care, poor care of the environment and service refusal. Community nurses frequently encounter self-neglect cases and health and social care professionals play a key role in the identification, management and prevention of self-neglect.

Early-onset dementia: the impact on family care-givers.

People with early-onset dementia (EOD) and their family carers remain an overlooked population within the policy and practice priorities of community health care. No standard provision of care or support currently exists for those with EOD and the family carer. Yet family members provide the majority of the full-time care required for this progressive, irreversible illness.

Primary health care: comparing public health nursing models in ireland and norway.

Health of populations is determined by a multitude of contextual factors. Primary Health Care Reform endeavors to meet the broad health needs of populations and remains on international health agendas. Public health nurses are key professionals in the delivery of primary health care, and it is important for them to learn from global experiences.