Digital professionalism in preregistration nursing and midwifery students: A scoping review to explore perceptions of professionalism when using social media.

Aim: This review aimed to scope the literature by examining preregistration nursing and midwifery students' perceptions regarding professional use of social media.

Background: Digital professionalism refers to the competence required when interacting online, such as social network platforms by maintaining the values and attitudes which align with professional codes of conduct. With increasing social media platforms being used by nursing and midwifery students, there are concerns about professional behaviour and the implications for those who may not be clear on its use in the professional context of their profession.

The concept of capability in pre-registration nursing education: A scoping review.

Background: Capability in nursing education is an emerging concept that includes various requisites, which can be applied in complex or unfamiliar clinical settings. Despite growing research for practising nurses, the requisites of capability for pre-registration nursing students entering the workforce remain unclear.

Objective: The objective was to identify the requisites that constitute capability for practice among pre-registration nursing students as well as the enablers to develop capabilities.

Use and Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations in Nursing Student Education: An Umbrella Review.

Computer-based virtual simulation in nursing is a rapidly developing field. A summary of current research could benefit nursing faculty who are incorporating this pedagogy into online teaching due to social distancing requirements. This umbrella review aimed to explore the use and effectiveness of virtual simulations in prelicensure nursing education.

Risk factors, prevention and treatment of hypoglycaemia after hyperkalaemia in adult patients using intravenous insulin: An integrative review.

Aim: An integrative review was conducted to synthesize published evidence on the prevention and treatment of hypoglycaemia and patient risk factors, in adult patients treated for hyperkalaemia with intravenous insulin and dextrose.

Methods: This review followed the framework by Whittemore and Knafl. Papers included were limited to English language studies involving participants who were aged 18 years and above and admitted in the inpatient acute care and emergency departments.

Understanding Nurse Characteristics that Influence Assessment and Intention to Treat Pain in Postoperative Patients: An Integrative Literature Review.

Objectives: An understanding of nurse characteristics that influence pain management, which are potentially amenable to change, can help to refine and improve nurse education and practice, resulting in better patient outcomes. The purpose of this review was to identify nurse characteristics that influence their assessment of and intention to treat postoperative pain.

Design: Integrative literature review.

Education and training methods for healthcare professionals to lead conversations concerning deceased organ donation: An integrative review.

Objectives: To determine which training methods positively influenced healthcare professionals' communication skills and families' deceased organ donation decision-making.

Methods: An integrative review using systematic methods and narrative synthesis for data analysis. Electronic databases of PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (EBSCO), Embase (OVID) and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, were searched between August 1997 and March 2020, retrieving 1019 papers.

Manifesto for healthcare simulation practice.

A pandemic has sent the world into chaos. It has not only upended our lives; hundreds of thousands of lives have already been tragically lost. The global crisis has been disruptive, even a threat, to healthcare simulation, affecting all aspects of operations from education to employment.

Considerations for Continuing Simulation Training During Infectious Outbreaks.

Healthcare simulation training can be significantly disrupted by infectious disease outbreaks, yet it is a key component in several important medical education activities, such as resuscitation refresher training and high-stakes prelicensure healthcare examinations. This article details the strategic and tactical considerations for continuing simulation training during infectious disease outbreaks. A framework of graded responses, titrated to outbreak severity, is provided from the perspective of an academic medical center managing simulation training during the early stage of the now global coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak.

Simulation-Based Communication Skills Training for Experienced Clinicians to Improve Family Conversations About Organ and Tissue Donation.

Introduction: The approach, communication skills, and confidence of clinicians responsible for raising deceased organ donation may influence families' donation decisions. The aim of this study was to increase the preparedness and confidence of intensive care clinicians allocated to work in a "designated requester" role.

Design: We conducted a posttest evaluation of an innovative simulation-based training program.

Simulation in Nursing Education-International Perspectives and Contemporary Scope of Practice.

Purpose: This article provides insights and perspectives from four experienced educators about their approaches to developing, delivering, and evaluating impactful simulation learning experiences for undergraduate nurses. A case study format has been used to illustrate the commonalities and differences of where simulation has been positioned within curricula, with examples of specialized clinical domains and others with a more generic focus. The importance of pedagogy in developing and delivering simulations is highlighted in each case study.

OSCE best practice guidelines-applicability for nursing simulations.

Background: Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) have been used for many years within healthcare programmes as a measure of students' and clinicians' clinical performance. OSCEs are a form of simulation and are often summative but may be formative. This educational approach requires robust design based on sound pedagogy to assure practice and assessment of holistic nursing care.

Using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination for Bachelor of Midwifery students' preparation for practice.

Background: Contemporary midwifery practice needs a rigorous and standardised assessment of practical skills, and knowledge to ensure that safety is maintained for both women and neonates before, during and after childbirth.

Aim: To evaluate the use of Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) as a standardised tool to develop clinical competence of Bachelor of Midwifery students.

Method: A pragmatic mixed method approach with surveys, focus groups and interviews was used to evaluate the OSCEs for first year students.

Empowering the registered nurses of tomorrow: students' perspectives of a simulation experience for recognising and managing a deteriorating patient.

Background: Recognising and responding to patients who are deteriorating are key aspects to improving outcomes. Simulations provide students with exposure to deteriorating patient scenarios and the role of nurses in such events. The number of programmes seeking to provide best possible simulation experiences is growing exponentially.

Extending patient simulation: a novel prototype to produce tympanic thermal output.

Introduction: Despite technologic advances in task trainers and manikins, there persists an inability to replicate key clinical skills as would occur in clinical settings. This report provides details of a project to develop a functional and reliable tympanic thermal simulator prototype that could be embedded into the ear of a manikin to enable tympanic thermometers to be used during simulation encounters.

Methods: A simple electrical circuit was built using (i) a standard 9-V battery, (ii) a switch, (iii) 5 × 62-Ω resistors in parallel for circuit stability, (iv) a 62-Ω resistor in parallel with (v) a 1-kΩ potentiometer to vary the infrared light-emitting diode (IRLED) intensity, and (vi) 2 IRLEDs.

Patients' recovery after critical illness at early follow-up.

Aim: To determine the quality of life, particularly physical function, of intensive care survivors during the early recovery process.

Background: Survivors of critical illness face ongoing challenges after discharge from the intensive care unit and on returning home. Knowledge about health issues during early phases of recovery after hospital discharge is emerging, yet still limited.