A hospital recreation room quality improvement intervention.

Purpose: Patients with extended hospital admissions had no recreation facilities in the ward. They were often confined to spaces around their beds, using the ward corridor for rehabilitation. The purpose of this paper is to outline a quality improvement (QI) intervention-provision of a recreational space for long-stay patients.

Describing the implementation of an innovative intervention and evaluating its effectiveness in increasing research capacity of advanced clinical nurses: using the consolidated framework for implementation research.

Background: Despite advanced nursing roles having a research competency, participation in research is low. There are many barriers to participation in research and few interventions have been developed to address these. This paper aims to describe the implementation of an intervention to increase research participation in advanced clinical nursing roles and evaluate its effectiveness.

Importance and use of correlational research.

Background: The importance of correlational research has been reported in the literature yet few research texts discuss design in any detail.

Aim: To discuss important issues and considerations in correlational research, and suggest ways to avert potential problems during the preparation and application of the design.

Discussion: This article targets the gap identified in the literature regarding correlational research design.

Febrile neutropenia risk assessment tool: improving clinical outcomes for oncology patients.

Purpose: To develop, implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse-led risk assessment tool to reduce the incidence of febrile neutropenia (FN) and evaluate the nurse's role in FN risk assessment in a hospital-based oncology unit.

Methods And Sample: A FN risk assessment tool was developed, implemented and evaluated. A comparative prospective observational chart review was undertaken to evaluate the tool.

Injecting drug users, sex workers and men who have sex with men: a national cross-sectional study to develop a framework and prevalence estimates for national HIV/AIDS programmes in the Republic of Serbia.

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a framework and best estimates of prevalence for the most at risk populations (MARPs) for HIV/AIDS to include sex workers (SW), men who have sex with men (MSM) and injecting drug users (IDUs) in order to evaluate national HIV/AIDS programmatic targets across the Republic of Serbia.

Design: A national, cross-sectional study and direct enumeration, multiplier and benchmark methods with integrated bio-behavioural surveys, capture/recapture and methods with Wald and Clopper-Pearson CIs were used.

Setting: This study was carried out in the three largest cities and main regions of Serbia, the capital city, Belgrade, (population 1 639 121 persons), the Vojvodina region with main city Novi Sad (population 335 701) and the rest of Serbia with main city Nis (population 257 867).

Prevalence of frailty-related risk factors in older adults seen by community nurses.

Aims: To describe the frequency of four frailty-related risk factors in a cohort of older adults visited by community nurses in Dublin, Ireland.

Background: The Irish public health nursing service allows for both professional and self referral. Risk factors examined were suspected cognitive impairment, nutritional and fall risk, and activities of daily living dependence.