Prevalence of tobacco smoking among European migrants residing in EU 15 countries: a quantitative systematic review protocol.

Objectives: The objective of this systematic review is to summarize the prevalence of tobacco smoking in European migrants residing in EU 15 countries.

Introduction: Most of the migration within the World Health Organization European Region is intracontinental. The prevalence of smoking varies greatly across the European Region.

End of life in acute hospital setting-A systematic review of families' experience of spiritual care.

Aims And Objectives: To systematically review qualitative studies exploring families' experiences of spiritual care at the end of life in acute hospital settings.

Background: Although there is a widespread belief that the consideration of spiritual and religious needs is outdated in the context of secularism, from a practical perspective patients and families appear to benefit from spiritual support at the end of life.

Methods: Six key databases, CINAHL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health Library, Web of Science and Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), were searched, and three reviewers independently extracted the data and coded them into themes and subthemes.

Telephone interventions, delivered by healthcare professionals, for providing education and psychosocial support for informal caregivers of adults with diagnosed illnesses.

Background: Maintaining care for ill persons in the community is heavily dependent on support from unpaid caregivers. Many caregivers, however, find themselves in a caring role for which they are ill prepared and may require professional support. The telephone is an easily accessible method of providing support irrespective of geographical location.

A systematic review of systematic reviews on interventions for caregivers of people with chronic conditions.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to support caregivers of people with selected chronic conditions.

Background: Informal caregivers provide millions of care hours each week contributing to significant healthcare savings. Despite much research evaluating a range of interventions for caregivers, their impact remains unclear.

Mature students' experiences of undergraduate nurse education programmes: the Irish experience.

In recent years mature students have been encouraged into nurse education for the valuable qualities they are known to possess, along with their ability to assist in providing a sustainable solution to the current health care crisis. Unfortunately corresponding resources and support structures have not accompanied this widening of access and mature students are expected to fit into structures that already exist, structures that were formulated with eighteen year olds in mind. This qualitative study explores the experiences of mature students in nurse education.

The clinical experiences of mature mental health nursing students in Ireland.

Mental health nursing has traditionally attracted a high level of mature applicants and this trend has not altered since the introduction of the Bachelor in Science in Nursing programme. The literature suggests that for many mature students, entering into nurse education is the fulfillment of a lifelong ambition. However, in reality they face many challenges not always shared by their younger classmates.