Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery educators' planetary health knowledge, views, confidence and teaching practices: A descriptive survey study.

Aim: To explore Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery educators' planetary health knowledge, views, confidence and teaching practices.

Design: A cross-sectional survey design.

Methods: An online survey was sent to Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery educators across the 45 Schools of Nursing and Midwifery between July and September 2023.

Coping strategies of internally displaced persons and the host community in a region of armed conflict: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Conflict leads to the displacement of people, making it more difficult for them to cope with increasing stress. In war-affected regions, people use different strategies to cope with their stress. This study examines the coping strategies of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and those in host communities in war zones.

Achieving consensus on the essential knowledge and skills needed by nursing students to promote planetary health and sustainable healthcare: A Delphi study.

Aim: To achieve consensus on the knowledge and skills that undergraduate/pre-licensure nursing students require to steward healthcare towards a more sustainable future.

Design: A two-phase real-time Delphi study.

Methods: Phase 1 included the generation of Planetary Health, climate change and sustainability knowledge and skill statements based on a review of relevant literature.

Australian nursing students' experiences of workplace violence during clinical placement: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To identify the nature, degree and contributing factors of workplace violence (WPV) incidents experienced by Australian nursing students during clinical placement.

Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study.

Methods: Data were collected from 13 September to 25 November 2022.

Promoting sustainability in nursing and midwifery clinical laboratories: Strategies for resource reduction, reuse, and recycling.

Background: The impacts of climate change on planetary health are multifaceted and threaten public health gains made since World War II. Healthcare is the fifth largest global emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, demanding significant efforts to transition to an environmentally sustainable future. Addressing these issues will require collective societal action.

"Feel the fear and do it anyway" … nursing students' experiences of confronting poor practice.

Aim: The two aims of this study were, first, to explore nursing students' experiences and perspectives of reporting poor care and second, examine the process by which they raised concerns.

Background: The nursing literature is replete with studies which explore nursing students' experiences of clinical placement. However only a small number explore students experiences of challenging poor care and how this is enacted in the practice setting.

Violence on the Job: The Experiences of Nurses and Midwives with Violence from Patients and Their Friends and Relatives.

Violence in healthcare is recognised as a significant workplace issue worldwide, with nurses recognised as the profession at greatest risk. The purpose of this study was to explore nurses' and midwives' experiences of violence in different clinical areas, work sectors and geographical regions. A cross-sectional design was employed to survey the membership of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association about their experiences with violence from patients and/or their friends and relatives in their workplace.

Education and training for preventing and minimizing workplace aggression directed toward healthcare workers.

Background: Workplace aggression constitutes a serious issue for healthcare workers and organizations. Aggression is tied to physical and mental health issues at an individual level, as well as to absenteeism, decreased productivity or quality of work, and high employee turnover rates at an organizational level. To counteract these negative impacts, organizations have used a variety of interventions, including education and training, to provide workers with the knowledge and skills needed to prevent aggression.

The impact of person-centred care on patient safety: An umbrella review of systematic reviews.

Background: Nursing literature frequently emphasises the benefits of person-centred approaches for healthcare quality and safety.

Objective: This umbrella review aimed to synthesise the combined evidence from systematic reviews assessing the impact of person-centred care interventions on patient safety.

Design: A three-step review process included a preliminary review of literature, a comprehensive search, and manual searching of reference lists and forward citations of selected reviews.

'She would wash the patients as if she was scrubbing a dirty plate in the sink': Exploring nursing students experiences of care delivery.

Background: While much is known about nursing students' clinical placement experiences in general, less has been reported about their specific encounters with poor care delivery. A few small-scale qualitative studies have been undertaken, which suggest that nursing students do witness poor care but often decide not to act on what they see. This study sought to explore a wider international perspective on this issue.

Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: A review of quantitative and qualitative evidence.

The rates of chronic diseases and lifestyle conditions, such as diabetes mellitus, heart disease, and obesity, as well as mental health conditions such as depression are increasing and have a negative impact on the health and well-being of sufferers. The primary objective of this review was to review the quantitative and qualitative evidence about health and well-being impacts on adults following participation in environmental enhancement or conservation activities.

Lamotrigine vs. Carbamazepine Monotherapy for Epilepsy Treatment.

Editor's note: This is a summary of a nursing care-related systematic review from the Cochrane Library. For more information, see http://nursingcare.cochrane.