The Care and Management of Children and Young People with Ataxia Telangiectasia Provided by Nurses and Allied Health Professionals: a Scoping Review.

Ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare, multisystem progressive condition that typically presents in early childhood. In the absence of cure, people with A-T require coordinated multidisciplinary care to manage their complex array of needs and to minimize the disease burden. Although symptom management has proven benefits for this population, including improved quality of life and reduced complications, there is a need for guidance specific to the nursing and allied healthcare teams who provide care within the community.

Evaluation of a medication calculation mobile app using a cognitive load instructional design.

Objective: For students attending healthcare courses, such as nursing and paramedicine, the ability to calculate medication dosages accurately is an essential but often a complex cognitive skill to be learned. This study aimed to determine whether a 'mastering medication calculation' mobile app, developed using an instructional design based on cognitive load theory, could improve students' medication calculation ability and self-efficacy. Additional objectives were: (1) To examine the correlations between students' medication calculation ability, self-efficacy and their numerical ability; (2) To explore how well medication calculation ability can be predicted by students' numerical ability and their medication calculation self-efficacy; (3) To obtain students' opinions regarding the mobile app's usefulness and usability.

Math anxiety, self-efficacy, and ability in British undergraduate nursing students.

Nurses need to be able to make drug calculations competently. In this study, involving 229 second year British nursing students, we explored the influence of mathematics anxiety, self-efficacy, and numerical ability on drug calculation ability and determined which factors would best predict this skill. Strong significant relationships (p < .

The effect of an interactive e-drug calculations package on nursing students' drug calculation ability and self-efficacy.

Objective: Nurses need to be competent and confident in performing drug calculations to ensure patient safety. The purpose of this study is to compare an interactive e-drug calculations package, developed using Cognitive Load Theory as its theoretical framework, with traditional handout learning support on nursing students' drug calculation ability, self-efficacy and support material satisfaction.

Design: A cluster randomised controlled trial comparing the e-package with traditional handout learning support was conducted with a September cohort (n=137) and a February cohort (n=92) of second year diploma nursing students.

Exploring the numeracy skills of nurses and students when performing drug calculations.

Background: It is essential for patient safety that nurses are able to competently perform numerical and drug calculations.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate and compare the numerical and drug calculating abilities of second year student nurses and registered nurses attending a non-medical prescribing programme (McMullan et al, 2010).

Method: All participants were given validated numerical and drug calculation tests.

Patient safety: numerical skills and drug calculation abilities of nursing students and registered nurses.

Aim: This paper is a report of a correlational study of the relations of age, status, experience and drug calculation ability to numerical ability of nursing students and Registered Nurses.

Background: Competent numerical and drug calculation skills are essential for nurses as mistakes can put patients' lives at risk.

Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 2006 in one United Kingdom university.

Using portfolios for clinical practice learning and assessment: the pre-registration nursing student's perspective.

Portfolios have been introduced to help to integrate theory and practice and thereby address the issue of the theory-practice divide. Although there has been much theoretical discussion about portfolio use in clinical placements, few studies have focused on the students' perceptions regarding their use. To obtain adult branch pre-registration nursing students' perspectives on using portfolios for their clinical practice learning and assessment, postal questionnaires were sent to 253 diploma of nursing students with a reminder to all students three weeks later.

Feasibility of combining e-health for patients with e-learning for students using synchronous technologies.

Aim: This paper is a report of a project to introduce and evaluate methods for using information and communication technologies to involve academic staff, students, and patients in a common synchronous e-learning environment.

Background: Although there is no strong evidence for this, there may be benefits in 'efficiency' and for patients and students from shared e-learning. Asynchronous e-learning methods in nursing education are well-established, but synchronous methods have received less attention.

Patients using the Internet to obtain health information: how this affects the patient-health professional relationship.

Objective: Health information is one of the most frequently sought topics on the Internet. A review of the literature was carried out to determine the use of the Internet for health information by the patient and how this could affect the patient-health professional relationship.

Methods: This study is a literature review, summarizing multiple empirical studies on a single subject and is not intended to be a meta-analysis.