The academic journey of students with specific learning difficulties undertaking pre-registration nursing programmes in the UK: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: The prevalence of nursing students with specific learning difficulties enrolled on pre-registration nursing programmes and the impact that this diagnosis has on their programme outcomes are currently unknown.

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to report on data that explored and compared the academic journey of students with and without learning difficulties on pre-registration nursing degree programmes.

Design: A retrospective cohort design.

An exploration of the predictive validity of selection criteria on progress outcomes for pre-registration nursing programmes-A systematic review.

Aim: To identify the selection methods currently being used for pre-registration nursing programmes and to assess the predictive power that these methods have on students' success.

Background: Research into selection methods in nursing education is beginning to emerge, yet it is unclear which methods are most predictive of students' success.

Design: A systematic review of the literature.

Person-centred end-of-life curriculum design in adult pre-registration undergraduate nurse education: A three-year longitudinal evaluation study.

Background: The need to provide quality end-of-life care is universally accepted. International research and policies encourage innovative ways that effective culturally appropriate care can be provided. Higher education institutions and practice settings are tasked with ensuring that nurse graduates have the knowledge, skills and insight to deliver person-centred end-of-life care.

Wearable technology-based metrics for predicting operator performance during cardiac catheterisation.

Introduction: Unobtrusive metrics that can auto-assess performance during clinical procedures are of value. Three approaches to deriving wearable technology-based metrics are explored: (1) eye tracking, (2) psychophysiological measurements [e.g.

Understanding factors that facilitate the inclusion of pain education in undergraduate curricula: Perspectives from a UK survey.

Background: Studies in Europe, North America and Australasia suggest that one in five adults suffer from pain. There is increasing recognition that pain, particularly chronic pain, represents a global health burden. Many studies, including two national surveys exploring the content of undergraduate curricula for pain education, identify that documented pain education in curricula was limited and fragmentary.

Seeing for themselves - healthcare professionals' views about the presence of family members during brainstem death testing.

Aims And Objectives: To provide an insight into the views of healthcare professionals on the presence of family members during brainstem death testing.

Background: Brainstem death presents families with a paradoxical death that can be difficult to define. International research suggests families should be given the choice to be present at brainstem death testing, yet it appears few units offer families the choice to be present and little attention has been paid to developing practice to enable effective facilitation of choice.

The effect of nurse-facilitated family participation in the psychological care of the critically ill patient.

Aim: This paper is a report of a Neuman systems model-guided study of the effects of nurse-facilitated family participation in psychological care on the extent of patient delirium and psychological recovery following critical illness.

Background: Psychological disturbances resulting from critical illness have been well documented in international literature. Few studies have tested interventions designed to alleviate such disturbances.