Enhancing oncology patient care: nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived benefits of early palliative integration - a cross-sectional study.

Background: Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for patients with end-stage illnesses by addressing physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs. Early referral to palliative care improves patient outcomes, quality of life and overall survival in a variety type of cancers. This study aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes and perceived benefits of early integration of palliative care among oncology nursing.

Nursing perception towards the impact of JCI accreditation on the quality of care in a university hospital in Palestine: a cross-sectional study.

Background: This study investigates nursing staff perceptions regarding the impact of Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation on the quality of care within a university hospital in Palestine. The research specifically examines how the accreditation process influences nursing practices, patient results, and overall healthcare quality in a challenging environment marked by unique operational and external pressures.

Methods: The study was conducted at An-Najah National University Hospital (NNUH), a university hospital in Palestine, using a cross-sectional survey design.

Nurses' knowledge of medical device-related pressure injuries and risk factors: A descriptive study at a large medical centre from Palestine.

Background: Nurses' knowledge of pressure injuries causes and risk factors helps to prevent their occurrences and protect the patient.

Aim: To assess the level of knowledge of medical device-related pressure injuries and to identify risk factors that affect the knowledge.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was used in this study considering a convenience sample from critical care nurses.

The perceived social support, life events, and depressive features among patients with diabetes mellitus.

Objective: This study evaluated the relationship between life events, perceived social support, and depressive features among people with diabetes.

Methods: This study was a cross-sectional design using convenience sampling. Questionnaires were distributed to targeted patients in primary health care services in the Nablus district.

Sources of Stress and Coping Behaviors among Nursing Students Throughout Their First Clinical Training.

Introduction: Clinical training allows nursing students to acquire and strengthen their psychomotor abilities, which is an important component of nursing education. The clinical components of nursing training programs were much more demanding than the academic ones.

Purposes: The purpose of this study was to examine sources of stress-related and coping behaviors during first clinical training among nursing students in the Arab American University.

Challenges and Opportunities in Stroke Nursing Research: Global Views From a Panel of Nurse Researchers.

INTRODUCTION: A diverse group of neuroscience nurse experts discussed stroke nursing research at the 5th International Neuroscience Nursing Research Symposium. Panel experts from Singapore, India, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malawi, Germany, Palestine, Kenya, Japan, and the United States collaborated to examine similarities and differences in nurse-led stroke research conducted in their home countries. This article reflects panel insights on challenges and opportunities for nurse-led stroke research.

Vincristine-induced urinary bladder paralysis.

The authors describe the development of bladder paralysis in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia undergoing maintenance chemotherapy. Immediately before the adverse clinical event, the child had received vincristine intravenously and triple therapy with hydrocortisone, cytosine arabinoside, and methotrexate intrathecally and had begun a 5-day pulse of prednisolone. The authors conclude that the ensuing reversible bladder paralysis was related to the vincristine.

Congenital peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor refractory to treatment.

The authors report an unusual case of an infant presenting with a congenital peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PPNET) of the left hand refractory to treatment. A newborn girl was born with a large bluish-red mass of 4.5 cm diameter protruding into the palm and the dorsum of the left hand.

The triad of seizures, hypertension, and neuroblastoma: the first described case.

The combination of seizures, hypertensive encephalopathy, and neuroblastoma has not been described before. The authors report one case, which is not only of interest in its own right, but also emphasizes the importance of including blood pressure measurement in the clinical examination of children, especially when hypertension could be the cause of the symptoms.

Xeroderma pigmentosum in four siblings with three different types of malignancies simultaneously in one.

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by marked sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation that leads to the development of multiple skin malignancies. The authors describe four XP siblings in a consanguineous Pakistani family. The first patient was a boy who died at age 2 years.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting with lactic acidosis and renal tubular dysfunction.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children can rarely present with severe lactic acidosis in the absence of a high white blood cell count or other complications. Renal tubular dysfunction with hypercalciuria and hypocalcemia in the absence of pre-existing renal disease or concurrent medications has not been described at presentation in childhood ALL. The authors describe a 7-year-old boy with ALL presenting with severe lactic acidosis and renal tubular dysfunction, both of which were refractory to conventional management and resolved rapidly with appropriate chemotherapy.