What is the Impact of Outreach Services on Medication Adherence for COPD Patients? A Systematic Review.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients have been known to have poor medication adherence rates. The purpose of this systematic review was to assess if outreach services could impact on medication compliance rates. CINAHL, Medline, Clinical Key and Cochrane library were all searched electronically along with grey literature for all eligible studies conducted on COPD patients in a non-acute hospital setting.

The impact of implementing speech recognition technology on the accuracy and efficiency (time to complete) clinical documentation by nurses: A systematic review.

Introduction: Speech recognition technology (SRT) recognises an individual's spoken word signals through a microphone and subsequently processes the user's words into digital text by means of a computer. SRT remains well established and continues to grow in popularity among the various health disciplines. Many studies have been done to examine the effects of SRT on nursing documentation, however, no previous systematic review (SR) on the effects of SRT on accuracy and efficiency of nursing documentation was identified.

Advancing Nursing Practice: Management of Neuropathic Pain With Capsaicin 8% Without Physician Supervision.

Purpose/aims: The purpose of this study was to examine the management of patient's neuropathic pain with capsaicin 8% in a nurse-led clinic when administered by 1 registered advanced nurse practitioner without physician supervision.

Design: A longitudinal, single-group, descriptive research design was used to assess pain scores and quality of life 3 times over 3 months after treatment.

Methods: Patients with a diagnosis of neuropathic pain were assessed and treated with capsaicin 8% by 1 advanced nurse practitioner with prescriptive authority in a nurse-led clinic.

Health value & perceived control over health: behavioural constructs to support Type 2 diabetes self-management in clinical practice.

Aims And Objectives: To explore health value and perceived control over health in relation to self-management behaviours in adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Background: Helping people to modify health related behaviour in diabetes is complex due to a multitude of factors. Exploring the meaning of the constructs of Modified Social Learning Theory could be beneficial to identifying people at risk of poor diabetes self-management.