Intensive care unit nurses' perceptions of debriefing after critical incidents: A qualitative descriptive study.

Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses are exposed to critical incidents daily at their workplace, which may have long-term physical and psychological impacts. Despite the growing evidence supporting clinical debriefing in health care to prevent these impacts, a scarcity of literature exists to support its use in the adult intensive care setting.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to explore nurses' perceptions of clinical debriefing after critical incidents in an adult ICU.

Belonging in high acuity settings: What is needed for newly graduated registered nurses to successfully transition? A qualitative systematic review.

Background: A worldwide shortage of nurses providing clinical care, coupled with an increase in severity of illness of hospitalised patients has led to newly graduated Registered Nurses being placed into high acuity settings, such as the emergency department, intensive care unit and operating theatre. The feeling of belonging in these settings impacts on successful transition of newly graduated Registered Nurses, their learning, and may lead to high attrition rates.

Objective: To comprehensively synthesise qualitative research on newly graduated Registered Nurses' experiences of belonging, while working in high acuity clinical settings.

Impact of art and reflective practice on medical education in the emergency department.

Objectives: There is heightened intrigue surrounding the application of arts-based pedagogy in medical education. Art encompasses multiple forms of expression and is used to convey specific meaning and emotion, whereas provoking critical reflection. Our aim was to explore the effectiveness of art and reflective practice in medical education, in the context of the ED.

Perceptions of final year nursing students transer of clinical judgement skills from simulation to clinical practice: A qualitative study.

Aim: To explore final year nursing student's ability to transfer clinical judgement skills to the clinical practice setting following immersive simulation.

Background: Clinical judgement is considered a fundamental skill for nurses to ensure safe, quality care is delivered. In undergraduate nursing education where students have limited clinical experience, simulation-based education is an important educational strategy for introducing and developing these skills.

Exploration and model development for emergency department waiting room nurse role: Synthesis of a three-phase sequential mixed methods study.

Background: To improve flow and care in waiting rooms, some emergency departments introduced a specific nursing role to care for this patient cohort with the aim of commencing interventions early, improving patient safety by reassessing and enhancing communication. The objective of the research was to explore to what extent does qualitative interviews and quantitative survey contribute to describing emergency department waiting room nurses, through integration and synthesis of findings from a multiphase mixed methods study.

Methods: Multiphase mixed methods exploratory sequential design with integration of findings.

Changing nursing practice in response to musculoskeletal l pain and injury in the emergency nursing profession: What are we missing?

Background: Musculoskeletal disorders in emergency nurses result in physical, psychological and financial strain. Contributing factors include: environmental, organisational, patient-related, medical emergencies, nurse's knowledge and health status. Stress and moral distress impact on nurses changing manual handling practices.

Australian emergency nurses' lumbar movement during a shift: An observational study.

Background: Emergency nurses are at higher risk than the average worker of experiencing lumbar pain. This is the first study to undertake real time monitoring to quantify lumbar movements of nurses working in the emergency department (ED).

Methods: Emergency nurses at a single Australian ED were recruited for a prospective observational case study.

Caring for deteriorating paediatric patients in the emergency department: A mixed method study.

Background: Paediatric presentations to emergency departments are common for a range of conditions with varying severity. Children can compensate well and early signs of deterioration may not be obvious. Nurses working in emergency departments (ED) should not only have the knowledge and skill to recognise the unwell child, but also be confident and competent to provide care.

Workplace violence: Examination of the tensions between duty of care, worker safety, and zero tolerance.

Background: Workplace violence (WPV) remains an international problem. This raises challenges for staff in meeting their duty of care to consumers while enforcing zero tolerance for violence directed toward them.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to expose the values and beliefs underpinning practice and reveal any flawed assumptions or evidence, upon which decisions related to WPV are made.

Practice priorities for acute care nursing: A Delphi study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the risk and frequency of challenges in acute care nursing, and the practice priorities in Australian hospital wards based upon expert consensus.

Background: Health care is facing increasing demands that are negatively impacting upon the safety and quality of nursing care.

Design: Delphi Method.

Managers' experiences of prevention and management of workplace violence against health care staff: A descriptive exploratory study.

Aim: To examine health care managers' and health and safety staff experiences of prevention and management of workplace violence against staff.

Background: Employers have a responsibility to protect employees from workplace violence. The varied care settings present challenges for those responsible for ensuring safety.

A profile of the waiting room nurse in emergency departments: An online survey of Australian nurses exploring implementation and perceptions.

Background: In response to increasing waiting times, adverse patient outcomes and patient dissatisfaction, some emergency departments introduced a Waiting Room Nurse role. Despite implementation into routine practice, there remains limited formal evaluation of the role.

Aim: To explore the implementation of a Waiting Room Nurse role in Australian emergency departments and emergency nurses' perceptions.

Workplace violence perpetrated by clients of health care: A need for safety and trauma-informed care.

Aims: To examine the relationship between workplace violence perpetrated by clients, their innate neurophysiological response to dis-ease and the resulting interactions with healthcare providers.

Background: Client-on-worker violence remains a problem globally. Workplace violence risk factors have been documented.

The trouble with reporting and utilization of workplace violence data in health care.

Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the reporting, monitoring and use of workplace violence data in Victorian health services.

Background: Surveillance of workplace violence is important in understanding the circumstances in which workplace violence occurs and development of relevant and appropriate prevention and intervention strategies.

Method: A descriptive exploratory approach was used.

Healthcare providers' neurobiological response to workplace violence perpetrated by consumers: Informing directions for staff well-being.

Aims: To examine the neurobiological response experienced by healthcare workers when exposed to workplace violence perpetrated by consumers, with a view to informing future training and self-care strategies for staff well-being.

Background: Considerable work has been undertaken internationally to identify the causes of workplace violence and to develop legislation and guidance for reducing the risk in healthcare. However, there is a gap in understanding workers' innate neurobiological response to workplace violence, and how to prepare staff to recognise the professional and self-care implications of such a response.

Emergency department waiting room nurses in practice: An observational study.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the activities and behaviours of waiting room nurses in emergency department settings.

Background: Emergency care has expanded into waiting rooms in some emergency departments. Often viewed as an adjunct to triage, the aim of waiting room nurses is to commence care early, reassess patients and improve communication between patients, families and staff.

Health professional perspectives of patient safety issues in intensive care units in Saudi Arabia.

Aim: To examine attitudes to patient safety in two intensive care units from the perspective of health care professionals in Saudi Arabia.

Background: Despite adverse errors leading to poor patient outcomes, there is a paucity of literature, including staff perceptions, on adverse errors in Saudi Arabian intensive care units.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used.

Effectiveness of paracetamol versus ibuprofen administration in febrile children: A systematic literature review.

Aim: The use of antipyretics to manage the febrile child is becoming increasingly popular. Paracetamol and ibuprofen are the most commonly used interventions to manage fever in children; however, there have been no comparative analyses. The aim of the study is to evaluate the evidence comparing paracetamol to ibuprofen in the treatment of fever in children.

Emergency department waiting room nurse role: A key informant perspective.

Background: Emergency departments have become overcrowded with increased waiting times. Strategies to decrease waiting times include time-based key performance indicators and introduction of a waiting room nurse role. The aim of the waiting room nurse role is to expedite care by assessing and managing patients in the waiting room.

Using transprofessional care in the emergency department to reduce patient admissions: A retrospective audit of medical histories.

The demand for emergency department (ED) services has increased significantly, due to our increasingly ageing population and limited access to primary care. This article reports outcomes from a transprofessional model of care in an ED in Victoria, Australia. Nurses, physiotherapists, social workers, and occupational therapists undertook additional education to increase the range of services they could provide and thereby expedite patient flow through the ED.

Aged care residents in the emergency department: the experiences of relatives.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of relatives who had a family member in an aged care facility subsequently transferred to an emergency department.

Background: The provision of timely and relevant patient information is vital for assessment and management of older patients presenting to the emergency department from aged care facilities. Older people are commonly accompanied by relatives who are an important resource for emergency department staff, providing medical information and assisting with treatment decisions.

Transdisciplinary care in the emergency department: A qualitative analysis.

In response to increasing demands some emergency departments have introduced transdisciplinary care coordination teams. Such teams comprise staff from multiple disciplines who are trained to perform roles outside their usual scope of practice. This study aimed to critically evaluate the patient, carer and ED staff perceptions of the transdisciplinary model of care in an emergency department in a Melbourne metropolitan hospital.

Care of patients in emergency department waiting rooms--an integrative review.

Aim: To conduct an integrative review of primary research examining patient care roles introduced into emergency department waiting rooms.

Background: Internationally, emergency departments are under pressure to meet increasing patient demand with limited resources. Several initiatives have been developed that incorporate a healthcare role in waiting rooms, to assess and initiate early interventions to decrease waiting times, detect patient deterioration and improve communication.

Resident transfers from aged care facilities to emergency departments: can they be avoided?

Objective: Residents from aged care facilities make up a considerable proportion of ED presentations. There is evidence that many residents transferred from aged care facilities to EDs could be managed by primary care services. The present study aimed to describe the characteristics of residents transferred from residential aged care facilities to EDs, and to evaluate the appropriateness and cost of these presentations.

Perceptions of knowledge of disaster management among military and civilian nurses in Saudi Arabia.

Background: It is generally accepted that nurses have insufficient knowledge about disaster preparedness due to a lack of acceptance of core competencies and the absence of disaster preparedness in nursing curricula. This study explored nurses' knowledge and sources of knowledge, and skills as they relate to disaster management in Saudi Arabia, where more than 4660 people have died, 32,000 people have been affected, and US$4.65 billion in damage has been caused by disaster since 1980.