Self-care trajectories of patients with coronary heart disease: a longitudinal, observational study.

Aims: To determine if distinct trajectories of coronary heart disease (CHD) self-care behaviours could be identified, linked to differences in quality of life (QoL), and predicted based on baseline characteristics.

Methods And Results: A secondary analysis of a prospective, longitudinal, observational study. Patients with CHD answered questionnaires at study enrolment and six months later: Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory (three subscales: maintenance, management, and confidence, scored 0-100, higher score = better self-care), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, 12-Item Short Form Survey, 16-Item European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire, and CHD Education Questionnaire.

The Professional Nurse Self-Assessment Scale II - Translation and cultural adaptation for Nordic countries.

Background: It is important to map the clinical competence of newly graduated nurses in Nordic countries. The use of a common Nordic instrument could provide insights into nurses' levels of self-assessed clinical competence and perceptions of their need for professional development.

Aim: To translate and culturally adapt the original Norwegian version of the Professional Nurse Self-Assessment Scale II (PROFFNurse SAS II) into (1) Danish, (2) Finnish and (3) Icelandic versions.

Changes in disease-related knowledge and educational needs of patients with coronary heart disease over a six-month period between hospital discharge and follow-up.

Objective: To describe changes in the disease-related knowledge and educational needs of individuals with coronary heart disease (CHD).

Methods: Patients hospitalized for CHD answered questionnaires about disease-related knowledge (Coronary Artery Disease Education Questionnaire-short version (CADE-Q-SV), score 0-20), educational needs (investigator-designed questions), health literacy (Short version of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q16)), self-care (Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory version (SC-CHDI)), and physical activity (Leisure-time Physical Activity Questionnaire) at discharge (T1) and six months later (T2).

Results: Participants' (N = 308; mean [M] age=65.

Translation and evaluation of the HeartQoL in patients with coronary heart disease in Iceland.

Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) reflects an individual's own perception of their symptom burden, functional limitations, prognosis, overall health and changes associated with treatment. The HeartQoL is a validated heart disease-specific questionnaire with a physical and an emotional subscale that is used internationally to assess HRQoL in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The aim of this study was to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the HeartQoL in patients with CHD in Iceland.

Educational and personal burnout and burnout regarding collaborating with fellow university nursing students during COVID-19 in 2020-2021.

Background: Knowledge is lacking about the effects of COVID-19 on nursing students' burnout symptoms. Burnout can lead to negative feelings and behaviours towards learning and poor mental health.

Aims: To describe and compare nursing/midwifery students' burnout, explore differences and detect predictors at two time points through COVID-19.

Keeping the Connection Alive With Tender Care and Common Sense: A Phenomenological Study on Daughters' Experiences of Having a Mother in a Nursing Home.

The relationship between mother and daughter is exceptional when it comes to closeness and its impact on their whole life. Thus, a mother's move to a nursing home is pivotal for both of them. The aim of this interpretative phenomenological study, using the Vancouver School of Doing Phenomenology, was to explore daughters' experience of having a mother in a nursing home, its impact on the maternal relationship, and the daughters' need for education and support.

Rural patients' experience of education, surveillance, and self-care support after heart disease related hospitalisation: a qualitative study.

People living in rural Iceland have a higher rate of cardiovascular risk factors and healthcare utilisation compared to people in urban areas.The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of people with coronary heart disease, living in rural Iceland regarding patient education, surveillance, and self-care support. The participants (N = 14, age 52‒79 years, 8 male), were interviewed 6 to 12 months after hospital discharge following a cardiac event (in 2018‒2019).

Predictors of university nursing students burnout at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Little is known about the stress and burnout experienced by undergraduate and graduate nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Academic burnout among nursing students can have an impact on students' learning ability, health, and wellbeing and on the quality of care and intention to leave the profession post-graduation.

Objectives: Evaluate the predictors of nursing students' personal, academic, and collaboration-related burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medication calculation skills of graduating nursing students within European context.

Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the medication calculation skills of graduating nursing students in six European countries and analyse the associated factors.

Background: Medication calculation skills are fundamental to medication safety, which is a substantial part of patient safety. Previous studies have raised concerns about the medication calculation skills of nurses and nursing students.

Optimising implementation of European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: what is needed?

Cardiovascular disease is a model example of a preventable condition for which practice guidelines are particularly important. In 2016, the joint task force created by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) together with 10 other societies released the new version of the European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention. To facilitate the implementation of the ESC guidelines, a dedicated prevention implementation committee has been established within the European Association of Preventive Cardiology.

Training interventions for healthcare providers offering group-based patient education. A scoping review.

Objectives: To provide overview of research on training interventions for healthcare providers aimed at promoting competencies in delivering group-based patient education.

Methods: A systematic literature search identified relevant studies. Data was extracted on training details, study design, outcomes and experiences.

Patient handover between ambulance crew and healthcare professionals in Icelandic emergency departments: a qualitative study.

Background: Ambulance services play an important role in the healthcare system when it comes to handling accidents or acute illnesses outside of hospitals. At the time of patient handover from emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to the nurses and physicians in emergency departments (EDs), there is a risk that important information will be lost, the consequences of which may adversely affect patient well-being. The study aimed to describe healthcare professionals' experience of patient handovers between ambulance and ED staff and to identify factors that can affect patient handover quality.

Evaluating the extent of patient-centred care in a selection of ESC guidelines.

Aims: Patient-centred care (PCC) is the cornerstone for healthcare professionals to promote high quality care for patients with cardiovascular conditions. It is defined as 'Providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to, individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions'. PCC can improve patient outcomes and allow patients and healthcare professionals to manage care collaboratively using best available evidence.

Nurses' use of monitors in patient surveillance: an ethnographic study on a coronary care unit.

Background: Physiological monitors are increasingly used for patient surveillance. Although nurses play a vital role in the observation, analysis and use of information obtained from these devices, difficulties in their use, coupled with the high frequency of false and nuisance monitor alarms, can lead to negative working conditions and threaten patient safety.

Aim: With the purpose of promoting effective monitor use and ensuring patient safety, the aim was to explore both how cardiovascular nurses use monitors in patient surveillance and the effect that the monitors have on the nurses' work.

Like a hotel, but boring: users' experience with short-time community-based residential aftercare.

Background: The discharge process from hospital to home for patients with severe mental illness (SMI) is often complex, and most are in need of tailored and coordinated community services at home. One solution is to discharge patients to inpatient short-stay community residential aftercare (CRA). The aim of this study was to explore how patients with SMI experience a stay in CRA established in a City in Central Norway.

Perceived consequences, changeability and personal control of coronary heart disease are associated with health-related quality of life.

Aims And Objectives: To explore changes in illness perception and health-related quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease following percutaneous coronary intervention from the time when patients were discharged from hospital and five months later and to investigate association between illness perception and physical and mental health-related quality of life at five-month follow-up.

Background: Illness perception is known to influence patients' motivation to engage in preventive behaviour.

Design: Prospective and comparative with two measurement points: at discharge from hospital (time 1) and five months later (time 2).

Development and validation of a Clinical Assessment Tool for Nursing Education (CAT-NE).

The aim of this study was to develop a valid assessment tool to guide clinical education and evaluate students' performance in clinical nursing education. The development of the Clinical Assessment Tool for Nursing Education (CAT-NE) was based on the theory of nursing as professional caring and the Bologna learning outcomes. Benson and Clark's four steps of instrument development and validation guided the development and assessment of the tool.

What is a good educator? A qualitative study on the perspective of individuals with coronary heart disease.

Background: Patient views are especially important in patient education, as patient involvement is essential. However, no empirical research clarifies what knowledge, skills and competencies are needed for health professionals to competently serve as a good educator according to the patients themselves.

Aim: To explore what qualities patients with coronary heart disease perceive in a good educator.

How to become an expert educator: a qualitative study on the view of health professionals with experience in patient education.

Background: Health professionals with the level of competency necessary to provide high-quality patient education are central to meeting patients' needs. However, research on how competencies in patient education should be developed and health professionals trained in them, is lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of an expert educator according to health professionals experienced in patient education for patients with coronary heart disease, and their views on how to become an expert educator.

Knowledge and skills needed for patient education for individuals with coronary heart disease: The perspective of health professionals.

Background: There is a lack of studies on the knowledge and skills needed for patient education of individuals with coronary heart disease. Better understanding of what competencies health professionals see as necessary for patient education in secondary prevention can contribute to improved education of educators, and thus, improved patient education.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate health professionals' views on the knowledge and skills necessary in conducting high-quality patient education for adults recently diagnosed with coronary heart disease.

Participation of Icelandic nurses in smoking cessation counselling.

Aims And Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the participation and knowledge of Icelandic nurses in smoking cessation counselling and to find barriers to smoking interventions by nurses.

Background: Research has shown that clinical intervention as brief as three minutes can substantially increase smoking cessation success. Several studies have revealed that majority of nurses agree that smoking cessation counselling is within their duties.