Qualitative Evaluation of a Novel Security Role to Reduce Occupational Violence in Inpatient Hospital Settings.

Occupational violence (OV) is a priority issue that significantly affects the safety of nurses, leading to staff burnout and poor retention issues. Security personnel are common in inpatient settings, yet there is limited research on their role, function, and impacts. The study aims to qualitatively evaluate a novel security role to reduce OV in inpatient settings.

Exploring Unmet Needs in Prostate Cancer Care: A Cross-sectional Descriptive Study.

Background And Objective: Prostate cancer, the most common cancer among men worldwide, has significant impact on quality of life. Supportive care needs for those affected by prostate cancer are not well understood. This study aims to describe patient-reported unmet needs and explore supportive care priorities of men treated for prostate cancer.

Safety and efficacy of midline catheters versus peripheral intravenous catheters: A pilot randomized controlled trial.

Background: Despite pervasive need for peripheral intravenous catheters, insertion is often difficult, and approximately two thirds fail prematurely. Midline catheters are an alternative long peripheral catheter, inserted in the upper arm, ideal for patients with difficult access.

Aim: The aim of this study is to test feasibility of the protocol and compare the efficacy and safety of midline catheters to peripheral intravenous catheters.

Innovation in clinical learning for the acute hospital environment: nursing grand rounds.

The literature reports that workload factors affect nurses' ability to fully engage in continuing professional development. Hence the work environment in acute care calls for innovative approaches to achieve continuous development of nursing practice and work satisfaction. This study employs a one group pre-test post-test design to test the effectiveness of nursing grand rounds on nursing worklife satisfaction and work environment in an acute surgical ward.

Measuring the effect of patient comfort rounds on practice environment and patient satisfaction: a pilot study.

Hourly rounding in the acute hospital setting has been proposed as an intervention to increase patient satisfaction and safety, and improve the nursing practice environment, but the innovation has not been adequately tested. A quasi-experimental pretest post-test non-randomized parallel group trial design was used to test the effect of hourly patient comfort rounds on patient satisfaction and nursing perceptions of the practice environment, and to evaluate research processes and instruments for a proposed larger study. A Patient Satisfaction Survey instrument was developed and used in conjunction with the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index.

Does evening removal of urinary catheters shorten hospital stay among general hospital patients? A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Literature indicates that removing urinary catheters at midnight facilitates earlier discharge among urology patients, but the effect of evening removal on the general patient population is unknown. The objective of this study was to investigate whether removing a urinary catheter at 22.00 hours compared to 06.