Descriptive qualitative study of breathlessness and its management of Turkish individuals with self-reported heart failure.

Aims: To explore the experiences of individuals with heart failure, with a specific focus on elucidating the full spectrum of symptoms experienced and their subjective descriptions of breathlessness and self-management strategies regarding socio-cultural-behavioural context.

Design: Qualitative descriptive study underpinned by critical realism and situation-specific theory of heart failure self-care.

Setting: Participants from various settings (hospitals and community) in Southeastern Türkiye.

Beyond Index Conditions: Applying a Multimorbidity Approach to Renal Cancer Nursing.

Objective: This article aims to describe the key components of renal cancer nursing and multimorbidity nursing, and reflects on how adopting a multimorbidity approach to renal cancer nursing can help nurses provide holistic patient care.

Methods: This is a discussion paper drawing on relevant evidence and theory.

Results: Renal cancer nurses have a highly specialised knowledge base and are able to use this expertise to deliver excellent care to people with cancer.

Involving patients and the public in nursing PhD projects: practical guidance, potential benefits and points to consider.

Background: Funders, academic publishers and governance bodies increasingly require research to involve patients and the public. This also enables nurse researchers to increase the visibility of scholarly nursing roles, which are poorly understood by the public. There are different approaches to involvement, and a wealth of guidance about how it can and should be implemented.

Characteristics of symptoms and symptom change across different heart failure subtypes: a sex-stratified analysis.

Aims: To examine sex-stratified differences in the association of left ventricular ejection fraction-based heart failure (HF) subtypes and the characteristics and correlates of self-reported changes in HF symptoms.

Methods And Results: We report a secondary data analysis from 528 hospitalized individuals diagnosed with HF characterised by a reduced, mildly reduced, or preserved ejection fraction [HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), HF with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF), or HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)] who completed 12-month follow-up within a multicentre disease management trial. There were 302 men (71.