The additive value of CA19.9 monitoring in a pancreatic cyst surveillance program.

Background: Surveillance of pancreatic cysts focuses on the detection of (mostly morphologic) features warranting surgery. European guidelines consider elevated CA19.9 as a relative indication for surgery.

Undergraduate nursing students' transformative learning through disorientating dilemmas associated with end-of-life care simulation: A narrative inquiry study.

Background: Despite attempts, there remains a theory practice gap for undergraduate nursing students transitioning to clinical practice on graduation, especially for specialty areas of clinical practice, such as palliative care, where there are limited opportunities to gain specialty knowledge and skills. As a result, undergraduate nursing students largely feel unprepared for end-of-life care in clinical practice. End-of-life care simulation is gaining momentum for helping prepare students to undertake this important care.

Embodied good deaths and disembodied bad deaths: Undergraduate nursing students narratives of experience.

Background: The concept of "good and bad deaths" has been widely addressed in the literature. However, little is known of undergraduate nursing students' experiences with death in clinical practice or how they perceive good and bad deaths.

Objective: To explore undergraduate nursing students' personal and professional/clinical experiences of death and dying.

Optimizing cytological specimens of EUS-FNA of solid pancreatic lesions: A pilot study to the effect of a smear preparation training for endoscopy personnel on sample quality and accuracy.

Background: In the absence of rapid on-side pathological evaluation, endoscopy staff generally "smears" endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) specimens on a glass slide. As this technique is vulnerable to preparation artifacts, we assessed if its quality could be improved through a smear-preparation-training for endoscopy staff.

Methods: In this prospective pilot study, 10 endosonographers and 12 endoscopy nurses from seven regional EUS-centers in the Netherlands were invited to participate in a EUS-FNA smear-preparation-training.

Approaches to visual arts-based data collection with hospitalized children: A discussion of lessons learnt and suggestions for practice.

Aims: To discuss the experience in using a visual arts-based method of draw and talk with hospitalized children, lessons learnt and strategies for practice.

Design: Discussion paper.

Data Sources: Data were drawn from two sources: first, the databases Ovid MEDLINE, CINAHL, and SCOPUS were searched for approaches to visual arts- based data collection with children.