Examining the effect of an education intervention on nurses' medicines management knowledge.

Background: Suboptimal medicines management due to inadequate knowledge can cause risks to patient safety and affect the quality of care and patient outcomes.

Aim: To examine the effect of an educational programme on nurses' knowledge of medicines management.

Method: A pre and post-design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational medicines management programme.

Three-month follow-up effects of a medication management program on nurses' knowledge.

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a medication management program on nurses knowledge of medication management, three months after program completion. Fifty-seven nurses took a multiple-choice test both immediately after the program and three months later. Changes in test performance were assessed using McNemar's test and generalized estimating equations for binary outcomes.

Nurses' experiences with newly acquired knowledge about medication management: A qualitative study.

Objective: To investigate nurses' experiences with implementation of knowledge gained through an obligatory medication management programme (MMP).

Background: Lack of knowledge among nurses is an important contributor to medication management errors. Therefore, training programmes such as the MMP were established to help nurses acquire and refine their practice skills.

Hospital nurses' professional accountability while using the National Early Warning Score: A qualitative study with a hermeneutic design.

Aim: To explore general hospital ward nurses' experiences with the National Early Warning Score and to determine its impacts on their professionalism.

Background: The National Early Warning Score has broad appeal; it is a patient safety initiative designed to ensure early identification of and response to deteriorating patients in hospitals. However, it is still unclear how the tool impacts nurses' professionalism.

Introducing the National Early Warning Score - A qualitative study of hospital nurses' perceptions and reactions.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore hospital nurses' perceptions and reactions to the National Early Warning Score during an introduction programme.

Design: A qualitative case study approach with participatory observations was used for this study.

Methods: In total, nine seminars and 23 simulation sessions attended by nurses were observed.

The impact of Early Warning Score and Rapid Response Systems on nurses' competence: An integrative literature review and synthesis.

Aims And Objectives: To describe, interpret and synthesise the current research findings on the impact of the Early Warning Score and Rapid Response Systems on nurses' competence in identifying and managing deteriorating patients in general hospital wards.

Background: As patient safety initiatives designed to ensure the early identification and management of deteriorating patients, the Early Warning Score and Rapid Response Systems have broad appeal. However, it is still unclear how these systems impact nurses' competence when these systems are used in general hospital wards.

A mixed method study of an education intervention to reduce use of restraint and implement person-centered dementia care in nursing homes.

Background: People living with dementia in nursing homes are most likely to be restrained. The primary aim of this mixed-method education intervention study was to investigate which factors hindered or facilitated staff awareness related to confidence building initiatives based on person-centred care, as an alternative to restraint in residents with dementia in nursing homes. The education intervention, consisting of a two-day seminar and monthly coaching sessions for six months, targeted nursing staff in 24 nursing homes in Western Norway.

Knowledge use in nursing practice: the importance of practical understanding and personal involvement.

Understanding knowledge use in everyday nursing practice is important to the improvement of educational preparation and quality in health care. This paper reports registered nurses' experiences in different parts of the Norwegian health care system. The aim of the study was to elucidate nurses' experiences of knowledge use in work situations.

The meaning of autonomy in nursing practice.

Aim: To illuminate the meaning of nurses' experiences of autonomy in work situations.

Background: Professional autonomy means having the authority to make decisions and the freedom to act in accordance with one's professional knowledge base. An understanding of autonomy is needed to clarify and develop the nursing profession in rapidly changing health care environments and internationally there is a concern about how the core elements of nursing are taken care of when focusing on expansion and extension of specialist nursing roles.

Nursing students' career preferences: a Norwegian study.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to identify Norwegian undergraduate nursing students' career preferences at the beginning and end of their nursing education programme, together with their reasons for these preferences.

Background: International studies have shown that recruitment and retention of nurses in areas such as aged care and psychiatric nursing is difficult. It is important to know why some working areas are popular whilst others are not, so that nursing schools produce graduates who meet the needs of the community.