'It's only a matter of time' - Lessons learnt and recommendations from COVID-19 to inform emergency nursing for future pandemics: An integrated literature review.

Purpose: In the recovery phase of COVID-19 disaster management, Emergency Department (ED) nurses are attempting to return to normal workforce operations, despite significant impacts on personal and professional lives. This review aims to examine and synthesise current literature for the learnings and recommendations from the lived experiences of ED nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Procedures: Electronic databases CINAHL Complete, Web of Science, Scopus (Elsevier) and PubMed were utilised using a 5-year timeframe that aligned with COVID-19 in Australia.

Mapping Hospital in the Home Models of Care: A Systematic Review.

Aim: This systematic review aims to describe and compare the characteristics of Hospital in the Home (HITH) models of care within Australia.

Design: A systematic review of peer-reviewed Australian literature.

Data Sources: Seven databases were searched in January 2024, followed by citation searching.

The Lived Experience of Nursing Students from Student Work in Clinical Environments: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study.

Introduction: Undergraduate nursing students often work part-time or even full-time while studying at university completing their bachelor's degrees. The aim of this study is to explain the meaning of the lived experiences of nursing students working as students in clinical field.

Methods: A phenomenological study was conducted at the nursing and midwifery school of Tabriz, Iran.

Providing a localised cervical cancer screening course for general practice nurses.

Cervical cancer screening programs in Australia have been developed to detect early precancerous changes in women with a cervix aged between 25 and 74. Yet, many barriers remain to the uptake of cervical screening. Barriers include a lack of culturally appropriate service provision, physical access, poor health literacy, emotional difficulties, socio-economic disadvantage and not having access to a female service provider.

The Latrobe Smoking Support Service: A quantitative study of participants in a regional area.

Background And Aims: More than 70% of current smokers in Australia have a definite plan to stop smoking and around half of them try to quit every year. Latrobe Community Health Service (LCHS) was commissioned by Gippsland Primary Health Network to establish Latrobe Smoking Support Service (LSSS) to break down barriers to accessing services and increase support for smoking cessation. This research aims to assess the feasibility of an ongoing smoking cessation support service and determine the effect the LSSS has on client smoking behavior.

Preceptor's experience in supervising undergraduate nursing students in mental health: A qualitative study.

Preceptorship is considered an essential component in undergraduate nursing student's clinical placement, especially those in speciality units such as mental health. During the preceptorship relationship students are granted the opportunity to work alongside experienced nurses in the ward observing their interactions with patients and other professionals. In addition, students are able to build clinical confidence and competence.

Socioecological factors influencing physical activity engagement for women across the menopausal transition: a systematic review.

Importance: Physical activity during menopause can be effective in reducing the physiological changes associated with reproductive aging that increase risks for noncommunicable diseases, yet many women do not meet the recommendations for physical activity.

Objective: This study aimed to synthesize factors influencing physical activity for women across menopausal transition phases using a socioecological approach.

Evidence Review: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis was used to systematically search 10 databases between 2001 and 2021.

"I Just Know if I Keep Going, I'll End Up Hating Nursing." Lived Experiences of Emergency Nurses Three Years Into the Global COVID-19 Pandemic.

Introduction: As the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continues globally, the personal and professional pressure on health care workers continues to accumulate. Literature suggests that as the pandemic evolves, nurses are experiencing increased levels of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress, ultimately leading them to voice intentions to leave the profession, if they have not done so already.

Methods: Informed by an interpretive hermeneutic phenomenological approach, this longitudinal study was designed to capture how the lived experiences of 9 emergency nurses evolved over the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, highlighting their feelings, attitudes, and perceptions toward working in the emergency department at this time in history.

"I Don't Really Wanna Go Back. I Know What I've Got in Front of Me." Lived Experiences of Emergency Nurses 2 Years Into the Global COVID-19 Pandemic.

Introduction: As the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continued into 2021 and beyond, unrelenting work pressures continued to mount on the emergency nursing workforce. In the second year of this longitudinal study on emergency nurse lived experiences, staff outlined the continued strain of the profession, highlighting their increasing levels of burnout and identifying early stages of trauma response.

Methods: This research aimed to continue to explore lived experiences of Australian emergency nurses working on the frontline 2 years into the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

The benefit and limitations of an online physical activity program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: A quantitative analysis of the virtual Latrobe Streetgames program.

Issue Addressed: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of many physical activity programs, with many online programs being created in place to maintain physical activity engagement. This study explored the outcomes of an online physical program on its participants.

Method: A validated survey was used to explore Virtual Streetgames (VSG) participants' perceptions about their physical, mental, and social health while participating in VGS.

Student-led pop-up health check clinics: innovative health prevention strategy for a low socioeconomic community.

Background: To improve preventative health screening in regional Victoria, Australia, a collaborative student-led health prevention strategy was initiated. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of four health check clinics using a free 'pop-up' format within community settings.

Methods: A mixed methods, explanatory sequential design was used to explore community health data and participant experiences in utilising the free health check clinics.

"If I Can't Do It, Who Will?" Lived Experiences of Australian Emergency Nurses During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Introduction: The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 180,000 health care workers have died in the fight against COVID-19. Emergency nurses have experienced relentless pressure in maintaining the health and well-being of their patients, often to their detriment.

Methods: This research aimed to gain an understanding of lived experiences of Australian emergency nurses working on the frontline during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Effects of the Ward Environment and Language in Palliative Care: A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Victorian Nurses' Perspectives.

Objectives: The current study aimed to explore regional nurses' perspectives of how bad news is delivered and the physical, natural, social, and symbolic environments where these conversations occur.

Background: In regional hospitals within Victoria, Australia, palliative and end-of-life patients are cared for in acute wards that are often busy, noisy, and do not have a palliative psychosocial focus. On the other hand, Palliative Care Units (PCUs) have more home-like dedicated spaces, yet nearly all these facilities are in metropolitan areas.

Indigenous experiences and underutilisation of disability support services in Australia: a qualitative meta-synthesis.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People with a disability continue to experience barriers to service engagement such as mistrust of government services, lack of culturally appropriate support, marginalisation and disempowerment. This meta-synthesis reviews current literature regarding these experiences to explain why services are underutilised. The meta-synthesis was conducted using a meta-ethnographic approach to synthesise existing studies into new interpretive knowledge.

Public health messaging during disasters: A qualitative study of emergency department key informants.

Background: Patient education is a professional obligation for all nurses. Public health messaging in emergency departments during disasters can help prevent further risk or illness for affected communities. In this study, Australian emergency nurse Key Informants share their perceptions and experiences of preventative messaging provided in their departments during disasters and the governance and processes in place to support this practice.

Patient and family members' experiences with language and environment when receiving bad news: A qualitative exploratory study.

Objectives: Receiving bad news about one's health can be devastating, yet little is known about how the therapeutic nature of the environment where bad news is delivered affects the experience. The current study aimed to explore how patients and their families were affected by the language and the built, natural, social, and symbolic environments when receiving bad news, through the Therapeutic Landscapes theoretical framework.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with a life-limiting illness living in regional Victoria who had a hospital admission within 24 months and a diagnostic/prognostic conversation were invited to participate, as well as a family member who witnessed the conversation.

Exploring the experiences of frontline nurses during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic: An integrated literature review.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of frontline nurses caring for patients during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: The JBI manual for evidence synthesis and the PRISMA guidelines for reporting.

Data Sources: CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE, PsycINFO (EBSCO) and Scopus (Elsevier).

Public health messaging during disasters: Practice and attitudes of Australian emergency nurses.

Background: The growing frequency of disasters increases health system demands, increasing the need for emergency departments to provide public health messaging to prevent illness and reduce risk. This study aims to explore emergency nurse practice and attitudes in providing public health messages from the emergency department during disasters in Australia.

Methods: Quantitative phase of a mixed methods study, using an explanatory sequential design.

A systematic review of preceptor's experience in supervising undergraduate nursing students: Lessons learned for mental health nursing.

Background: Preceptorship in nursing has been a valued concept in nursing. Speciality area such as mental health nursing has a massive gap in research study. To develop sturdy mental health nursing workforce, it is necessary to conduct more studies.

Nursing and Midwifery Students' Mental Health Status and Intention to Leave During Covid-19 Pandemic.

Introduction: COVID-19 has not only affected the physical health of people but it has also had a major impact on their mental health.

Objective: To investigate the nursing, midwifery, and operating room students' mental health and intention to leave during COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at the nursing and midwifery school of Tabriz, Iran.

Burnout, stress and resilience of an Australian regional hospital during COVID-19: a longitudinal study.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has placed huge strain on hospital staff around the world. The aim of the current longitudinal study was to investigate the resilience, stress and burnout of hospital staff located at a large, regional hospital in Victoria, Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic over time via cross-sectional surveys. The surveys were disseminated six times from August 2020 to March 2021, with the first three data collection points distributed during a state-wide lockdown.

The impact of nature-led recovery initiatives for individual and community health post disaster: a systematic literature review.

Objectives: The impact of disasters on individual and community health can be extensive. As such, there exists the need to establish recovery measures that provides support psychologically and with additional mental health services and resilience building for affected people and their communities. Nature-led recovery is one such approach that has the ability to positively impact the mental health of people and their communities after a disaster.