Healthcare interventions for older people with dementia and family caregivers in Europe: A scoping review.

Aim: This study aimed to examine the extent, range and variety of research in Europe describing healthcare interventions for older people with dementia (PwD) and family caregivers.

Methods: This was a scoping review and followed the PRISMA Scoping Review guideline. MEDLINE, CINAHL and Cochrane library databases were searched for studies published between 2010 and 2020.

Nurses' attitudes towards family importance in nursing care across Europe.

Aims And Objective: To explore differences in nurses' attitudes regarding the importance of family in nursing care and factors associated with nurses' attitudes across 11 European countries.

Background: Family involvement in healthcare has received attention in many European healthcare systems. Nurses have a unique opportunity to promote family involvement in healthcare; however, their attitudes and beliefs may facilitate or impede this practice.

Healthcare practices and interventions in Europe towards families of older patients with cardiovascular disease: A scoping review.

Background: In Europe, cardiovascular disease is one of the predominant causes of mortality and morbidity among older people over 65 years. The occurrence of cardiovascular disease can have a negative impact on the quality of life of older patients and their families and family health overall. Assuming that illness is a family affair shaped by culture and health care systems, we explored European health care practices and interventions toward families of older patients with cardiovascular disease and heart failure.

Health practices in Europe towards families of older patients with cancer: a scoping review.

Introduction: In Europe, cancer is one of the predominant causes of mortality and morbidity among older people aged over 65. A diagnosis of cancer can imply a negative impact on the quality of life of the older patients and their families. Despite research examining the impact of cancer on the family, it is unclear what kind of information is available about the types of clinical practice towards older patients with cancer and their families.

Consenting on Principles of Rehabilitation Nursing Care: A Delphi Study.

Purpose: Patient-centeredness, evidence-based interventions, and interdisciplinary teamwork have been described as key in neurological rehabilitation nursing. In order to develop future action plans, a group of Swiss rehabilitation nurses sought agreement on concrete principles that led the efforts to develop a common understanding of rehabilitation nursing care in Switzerland.

Design: A three-round Delphi study was conducted.

Characteristics of patients treated for severe hypoglycaemia in emergency care settings - Analysis of routinely collected data.

Objective: Severe hypoglycaemic events (SHE) commonly require emergency care. This study investigates the presentation of patients with SHE to a single Swiss emergency service, including pre-hospital care with emergency medical services (EMS) and emergency department (ED) presentations.

Method: Retrospective analysis of routinely collected data by the EMS and ED during 2014.

[End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units: Nursing strategies of family involvement at the end of life].

Background: Family members of people dying in the intensive care unit (ICU) are exposed to many stress factors and they often do not experience involvement in End-of-Life (EoL) situations. For example, they criticize a low degree of participation in patients care, delayed or incomplete information and lack of privacy. Even nursing staff is facing various obstacles in EoL situations in ICUs.

Patient Characteristics Associated With a Successful Response to Nurse-Led Care Programs Targeting the Oldest-Old: A Comparison of Two RCTs.

Background: To improve the effectiveness of community-based care programs, especially those targeting the oldest-old population (80+), data are needed that elucidate those factors associated with a successful response to the intervention. Two comparable nurse-led care programs have been evaluated in two large randomized controlled trials (RCTs), one in Switzerland and one in the Netherlands.

Aims: To identify common patient characteristics that are related to a successful response to proactive nurse-led care, we explored if and to what extent, identical factors were present in both study populations.

Hypoglycaemia and brief interventions in the emergency department - A systematic review.

Objective: For people with diabetes, severe hypoglycaemia is the most common reason for emergency service usage and emergency department (ED) presentations. Brief interventions (BI) are a recognised intervention strategy in the ED for other conditions but to date, they have not been applied to those with hypoglycemia. This review aims to identify components and outcomes of BI for people with diabetes mellitus to inform the development of BI in the ED.

Variances in family carers' quality of life based on selected relationship and caregiving indicators: A quantitative secondary analysis.

Aims And Objectives: To determine subgroups of family carers based on family relational and caregiving variables and to explore group differences in relation to selected carer outcomes.

Background: Family caregiving in later life holds a myriad of positive and negative outcomes for family members' well-being. However, factors that constitute family carers' experience and explain variances are less well understood.

Relocation experiences with unplanned admission to a nursing home: a qualitative study.

Background: In many countries, people over 85 years of age are relocated involuntarily or unplanned to a nursing home. In Switzerland, 43% of elderly over 85 years are admitted to nursing homes after hospital discharge. This percentage is higher than in the USA with 32.

Nurse-led palliative care services facilitate an interdisciplinary network of care.

Background: Caring for palliative patients at home is complex and challenging. Specialist palliative care exists to provide high quality of care in complex situations. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of a specialist nurse-led palliative care service in an urban Swiss region.

Constipation prophylaxis in children undergoing orthopedic surgery: A quasi-experimental study.

Purpose: This study evaluated the effectiveness of constipation prophylaxis administered with the support of an advanced practice nurse.

Design: A quasi-experimental study with a historical control group of 112 pediatric (age 1-18) orthopedic patients and an intervention group of 59 patients was conducted in a surgical ward in Switzerland.

Results: The implementation of a standardized constipation prophylaxis led to an absolute risk reduction (27%) of constipation.

Management of language discordance in clinical nursing practice--A critical review.

Background: Language plays an essential role in the provision of nursing care, since successful communication is a vital prerequisite to being able to provide appropriate nursing care efficiently and effectively. It is not known what kinds of interventions are effective in overcoming language discordance in nursing practice.

Objectives: This critical review aimed to examine the interventions that are most successfully used to overcome language discordance in nursing.

Decision-making in caring for people with dementia at the end of life in nursing homes.

Background: Alleviating symptoms, fulfilling psychosocial needs, and the inclusion of family are among the criteria that determine care quality in palliative treatment. The care quality is especially inadequate for people with dementia (PwD) at the end of life. To improve this, it is necessary to understand the process of nurses' clinical decision-making in symptom management in the terminal phase of PwD.

[Being cared for and caring: living with multiple chronic diseases (Leila)-a qualitative study about APN contributions to integrated care].

Background: Living with multiple chronic diseases is complex and leads to enhanced care needs. To foster integrated care a project called "Living with chronic disease" (Leila) was initiated.

Aim: The aim was to develop an Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) service in collaboration with medical centers for persons who are living with multiple chronic diseases.

Effects of Mobility-Enhancing Nursing Intervention in Patients with MS and Stroke: Randomised Controlled Trial.

Background. Multiple sclerosis (MS) or stroke causes functional impairment which can have a major impact on patients' life. Objectives.

[Quality of advanced practice nurse counseling in home care settings (APN-BQ): psychometric testing of the instrument].

Background: Patient centred and individually-tailored counselling of older people with a chronic condition who live at home is a useful intervention to support their independence.

Aim: The paper presents the development and psychometric testing of the APN-BQ Instrument, to measure patient-centeredness.

Method: To measure the quality of an in-home counselling intervention, a 23-item questionnaire was developed and tested with 206 people 80 years and older.

Effects of an advanced practice nurse in-home health consultation program for community-dwelling persons aged 80 and older.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of an advanced practice nurse (APN) in-home health consultation program (HCP) on quality of life, health indicators (falls, acute events), and healthcare utilization.

Design: Randomized clinical trial.

Setting: One urban area in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.