Background And Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought additional strain to health workers in the Philippines, leading to a significant proportion of them leaving the workforce. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of the pandemic on health workers, the support that they received and associated challenges; and identify relevant policies for better workplace conditions.
Methods: An environmental scanning method was utilized.
Background And Objective: Global health highlights the transnational determinants, issues, and possible solutions for improving health outcomes. Addressing global health issues requires population-based approaches coupled with individualized healthcare across settings, including strategies for achieving health equity. Designing and implementing global health solutions requires competent nurse leaders who can facilitate multi-disciplinary collaborations, engage in policy development, and lead advocacies that support the global health agenda.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: International guidelines have promoted palliative care (PC) for stroke survivors, but definition and implementation have been less than ideal. This practice gap is more prominent in China, where discussion of death remains taboo.
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of PC among caregivers of hospitalized patients with stroke.
Background: A previous randomized controlled trial (NeCR) has indicated the effectiveness of nurse-led eHealth cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on modifying the behaviors of patients with coronary heart disease. However, limited qualitative studies explore the experiences of using eHealth CR that led to such benefits.
Objective: The study aimed to explore the experiences of patients who participated in the NeCR program.
Compassion is a core value of the nursing profession which enables nurses to empathize with and help alleviate patient suffering. Literature increasingly reports a lack of compassion in patient care by students and junior nurses; empirical knowledge regarding experiences of compassionate care among nursing students remains understudied. Student experiences in the clinical setting may influence their development of compassion competencies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To evaluate the current evidence that examined the effects of nurses' work environment interventions on nurse, patient, and hospital outcomes; and the key intervention characteristics.
Design: Quantitative systematic review without meta-analysis.
Data Sources: Nine databases (British Nursing Index, CINAHL, EMBASE, Global Health, Global Health Archives, MEDLINE, Ovid Nursing, PubMed, and Web of Science) were searched following Systematic review Without Meta-analysis guideline to elicit studies that examined effects of interventions aimed at improving nurses' work environments among peer-reviewed publications from inception to April 2019.
Aims: To evaluate the effects of eHealth cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on health outcomes of coronary heart disease patients and to identify programme design, which may lead to more effective health benefits.
Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis following Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.
Data Sources: Medline, EMBASE, CLNAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, PsycINFO, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trails, PubMed and CNKI were searched over the period from 1806 to April 2019.
Aims: To test the effect of a teamwork enhancement and quality improvement program named 'Nurturing Effective Teams and Continuous Quality Improvement' on nurses' work environments in the hospital setting.
Design: Mixed-method study with quasi-experimental controlled trial and focus group interviews.
Methods: Twelve units from two Philippine tertiary government hospitals will be matched and allocated to have 72 nurses receiving the teamwork enhancement and quality improvement program, or no intervention.
Background: Compassion has long been advocated as a fundamental element in nursing practice and education. However, defining and translating compassion into caring practice by nursing students who are new to the clinical practice environment as part of their educational journey remain unclear.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore how Chinese baccalaureate nursing students define and characterize compassionate care as they participate in their clinical practice.