Nursing staff engage readily with patients and associates in mental health/forensic inpatient settings. These settings are known to have instances of workplace violence directed towards staff and such violence includes racism. Racism is a form of workplace violence that must be better understood and supported within this complex setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To develop and explore the validity of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for adult inpatient diabetes care.
Method: 27 in-depth interviews were conducted to inform the development of the 42-item PREM which was cognitively tested with 10 people. A refined 38-item PREM was piloted with 228 respondents completing a paper (n = 198) or online (n = 30) version.
Background And Objectives: People living with dementia have historically been excluded from qualitative research and their voices ignored due to the perception that a person with dementia is not able to express their opinions, preferences and feelings. Research institutions and organizations have contributed by adopting a paternalistic posture of overprotection. Furthermore, traditional research methods have proven to be exclusionary towards this group.
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November 2022
Background: People with intellectual disabilities are more likely to have diabetes and develop complications from it. Diabetes management is complex and insulin treatment in particular, people with intellectual disabilities may require additional support that is not always available. This review aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to managing diabetes with insulin in adults with intellectual disabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Informed consent prior to nursing care procedures is an established principle which acknowledges the right of the patient to authorise what is done to him or her; consent prior to nursing care should not be assumed. Nursing care procedures have the potential to be unwanted by the patient and hence require an appropriate form of authorisation that takes into consideration the relationship between the nurse and patient and the ongoing nature of care delivery.
Research Question: How do nurses obtain consent from patients prior to nursing care?.
Aims And Objectives: To review interventions and strategies designed to progress UK clinical academic career pathways in nursing and identify barriers and facilitators to aid wider implementation.
Background: For over a decade, the UK political agenda has promoted the entry of nurses into clinical academic roles. Partnerships between the National Health Service and academia are known to increase nursing recruitment, retention and quality of care.
Background: Disparities in diabetes care are prevalent, with significant inequalities observed in access to, and outcomes of, healthcare. A population health approach offers a solution to improve the quality of care for all with systematic ways of assessing whole population requirements and treating and monitoring sub-groups in need of additional attention.
Description Of The Care Practice: Collaborative working between primary, secondary and community care was introduced in seven primary care practices in one locality in England, UK, caring for 3560 patients with diabetes and sharing the same community and secondary specialist diabetes care providers.
The care of people with dementia within the hospital setting is challenging for healthcare professionals. Hospital design and services are not optimized for people with dementia, owing to the lack of preparation of healthcare professionals and the busy environment of the acute hospital. The peri-operative environment may present particular difficulties but little is known about the experience and care of people with dementia in this setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany national policies propose integration between primary and specialist care to improve the care of people with long-term conditions. There is an increasing need to understand how to practically implement such service redesign. This paper reviews the literature on the barriers to, and facilitators of, integrating primary and specialist healthcare for people with long-term conditions in the UK, with the aim of informing the development and implementation of similar initiatives in integration.
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