Background: Health and Social Care (HSC) workers face psychological health risks in the workplace. While many studies have described psychological injuries in HSC workers, few have examined the determinants. Previous research has primarily focused on hospitals, lacking systematic reviews of community-based settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTuberculosis meningitis (TBM) is a result of the invasion of the meninges with the bacilli of (Mtb), leading to inflammation of the meninges around the brain or spinal cord. Oxidative stress occurs when the body's cells become overwhelmed with free radicals, particularly reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of TBM due to their toxic nature, resulting in impairment of the body's ability to fight off infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Occup Health Psychol
October 2022
Hiding errors can undermine safety by amplifying the risks of undetected errors. This article extends research on occupational safety by investigating error hiding in hospitals and applies self-determination theory to examine how mindfulness decreases error hiding through authentic functioning. We examined this research model in a randomized control trial (mindfulness training vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Although there are many benefits of short-stay hospital admissions for high volume, pediatric surgical procedures, this model of care places greater responsibility on parents for the management of children's pain. This study aimed to document the trajectory of child pain outcomes and a range of parent-reported functional outcomes following discharge from a short-stay surgical admission. Moreover, we aimed to document the trajectory of parental perceived personal coping resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: To explore nursing students' subjective experience of emotions during first-year clinical placements, strategies used to manage their emotions and socialisation to emotion management.
Background: Emotion regulation is a key source of stress for early career and student nurses. Clinical placement experiences can elicit strong emotions in nursing students; however, they may be unprepared for the challenge of regulating their emotions in real-world practice.
Aims And Objectives: To examine the relationships between participation in personal professional development activities (e.g., coaching, mentoring), teamwork and performance; to investigate the mediating and moderating effects of reflective thinking and perceived usefulness of development activities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate a boundary spanning, interprofessional collaboration between advanced practice nurses (APNs) and junior doctors to support junior doctors' learning and improve patient management during the overtime shift. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods evaluation of an intervention in an adult tertiary referral hospital, to enhance interprofessional collaboration on overtime shifts. Phase 1 compared tasks and ward rounds on 86 intervention shifts with 106 "regular" shifts, and examined the effect on junior doctor patient management testing a model using regression techniques.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAust N Z J Psychiatry
January 2018
Mental illness is now the leading cause of long-term sickness absence among Australian workers, with significant costs to the individual, their employers and society more broadly. However, to date, there has been little evidence-informed guidance as to what workplaces should be doing to enhance their employees' mental health and wellbeing. In this article, we present a framework outlining the key strategies employers can implement to create more mentally healthy workplaces.
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