Hospital Discharge Process: Context-Sensitive Care.

The transition from hospital to home after surgery is a vulnerable time for all cardiac surgical patients, particularly older adults. This postoperative phase presents multiple physical, physiological, emotional, and socioeconomic challenges, not only for patients but also for their families and informal caregivers, who often describe this period as stressful and overwhelming. Health-care professionals, particularly nurses, play an integral role in a patient's discharge process; the challenges can be ameliorated through timely discharge planning and effective discharge education.

Professional competence, personal occupational well-being, and mental workload of nurse educators - A cross-sectional study in four European countries.

Background: Nurse educators need a high level of professional competence to educate future health care professionals. Professional competence supports occupational well-being whilst high mental workload can undermine it. There is little existing research into nurse educators' professional competence, occupational well-being, mental workload, and the relationships between them, particularly in the European context.

The health literacy and patient discharge experience dyad after cardiac surgery: an exploratory study.

Health literacy concerns the ability to access, appraise and use information to maintain good health. The purpose of this study was to explore the health literacy of older adults and their experiences after cardiac surgery. A purposive sample of eight patients (aged ≥65 years) who had undergone cardiac surgery participated in this qualitative study.

Nurse educator competence in four European countries-A comparative cross-sectional study.

Aim: The aim of this article is to describe and compare the nurse educator competences in four European countries using three different evaluators: nurse educators (n = 329), heads of a nursing subject (n = 60) and student nurses (n = 1058).

Design: The study was conducted as a comparative cross-sectional survey in Finland, Malta, Slovakia and Spain between May 2021 and February 2022.

Methods: The data were collected with an online survey.

Medication administration error prevention among nurses working in intensive care units: A secondary analysis.

Background: The intensive care unit (ICU) brings together high-risk patients and interventions in a complex environment. Based on this consideration, medication administration error is the most common type of error that occurs in ICUs. Literature confirms that human factors (lack of knowledge, poor practices and negative attitudes) of nurses are the main contributors to the occurrence of medication administration errors in ICUs.

An integrative review of the continuing professional development needs for nurse educators.

Objectives: The study aimed at describing the field of research in continuing professional development for nurse educators and the continuous education and development needs of nurse educators by asking: What research has been done in the field of continuing professional development of nurse educators? What are the continuing education and development needs and requirements reported for and by nurse educators?

Design: An integrative review of peer-reviewed academic literature following a systematic search design.

Data Sources: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods publications in CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Embase, ERIC, and PubMed.

Review Methods: Search results were screened for full text and assessed for quality using the Mixed Methods Assessment Tool.

3Cs: the experiences of informal caregivers of patients undergoing thoracic surgery.

The informal caregiver is pivotal to the postoperative experience of patients. The purpose of this study was to explore the informal caregivers' experience while accompanying patients through thoracotomy surgery. Specifically, and exclusively, the informal carers' personal reactions, needs and views regarding their experience in the patients' surgery trajectory were explored.

A review of literature on risk prediction tools for hospital readmissions in older adults.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse the readmission risk prediction tools reported in the literature and their benefits when it comes to healthcare organisations and management.

Design/methodology/approach: Readmission risk prediction is a growing topic of interest with the aim of identifying patients in particular those suffering from chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes, who are at risk of readmission. Several models have been developed with different levels of predictive ability.

Intended and Actual Outcomes of Study Abroad Programs: Nursing Students' Experiences.

Background: Many nursing students participate in study abroad opportunities; yet, few studies explore their experiences. Given the increasing emphasis on evaluating the quality of higher education internationalization, this study explored the motivations for, and outcomes of, Maltese nursing students' Erasmus+ exchanges against the program's intended outcomes.

Method: Sixty-five Erasmus+ mobility participants completed an online questionnaire (response rate = 44.

Person-Centered Care From a Relational Ethics Perspective for the Delivery of High Quality and Safe Healthcare: A Scoping Review.

The aim of this scoping review is to explore whether or not person-centered care (PCC), in its quest to deliver high quality and safe health care, has a relational-ethics perspective. To do so, we first need to relate the extant literature pertaining to PCC and relational ethics. To this extent, the specific features that define PCC and relational ethics were identified.

Nurse Leadership Development in Malta.

Introduction: Leadership development has been studied extensively in many of the larger countries around the world, but there has been very limited research on nursing leadership development within small island countries.

Purpose: Explorative semistructured interviews underpinned by a phenomenological philosophy were conducted to seek understanding of the meaning attributed to the nursing leadership development within the Maltese culture.

Method: Six nurse leaders from administration, advanced practice, and academic backgrounds participated in semistructured interviews.

Can virtual learning environments be used as research platforms?

Background: Many higher education institutions use virtual learning environments (VLEs), with one in seven students learning exclusively online. The use of online research methods and approaches has also gained momentum over the past decade.

Aim: To explore the use of VLEs for qualitative research.

Dual agency in critical care nursing: Balancing responsibilities towards colleagues and patients.

Aim: To explore critical care nurses' decisions to seek help from doctors.

Background: Despite their well-documented role in improving critically ill patients' outcomes, research indicates that nurses rarely take decisions about patients' treatment modalities on their own and constantly need to seek advice or authorization for their clinical decisions, even for protocol-guided actions. However, research around the factors related to, and the actual process of, such referrals is limited.

Nurse staffing levels on the NPICU in the island of Malta.

. Nurse staffing levels in neonatal paediatric intensive care units (NPICU) are often inadequate. Malta is a small Island in the centre of the Mediterranean (total population around 400,000) with a birth rate of just under 4000/annum, with one NPICU.