Age and Surgical Volume Impact Likelihood and Technique of Lateral Extra-Articular Augmentation During Primary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.

Purpose: To evaluate the current utilization trends of practicing surgeons performing and lateral extra-articular augmentation (LEA) at the time of primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR).

Methods: The survey was distributed via e-mail in August 2023 to members of the Arthroscopy Association of North America who identified as knee surgeons and was available online on the Arthroscopy Association of North America website from January to September 2023. The 18-question survey was designed regarding surgeons' surgical utilization patterns of LEA during ACLR.

Multi-stakeholder aged care research networks: A scoping review.

Background And Objectives: An ageing population worldwide has highlighted the need for improved care in long term aged care homes. In Australia, such homes are called Residential Aged Care homes, and reform is underway to improve the quality and safety of aged care. A key enabler of quality improvement is increasing evidence-based practice through creating a system to support research translation.

Nurses' perceptions of patient pain, delirium, and sedation assessments in the intensive care unit: A qualitative study.

Background: Pain, delirium, and sedation should be assessed routinely using validated assessment scales. Inappropriately managed pain, delirium, and sedation in critically ill patients can have serious consequences regarding mortality, morbidity, and increased healthcare costs. Despite the benefits of a bundled approach to pain, delirium, and sedation assessments, few studies have explored nurses' perceptions of using validated scales for such assessments.

Oral care practices and hospital-acquired pneumonia prevention: A national survey of Australian nurses.

Background: Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) also known as non-ventilator associated pneumonia, is one of the most common infections acquired in hospitalised patients. Improving oral hygiene appears to reduce the incidence of HAP. This study aimed to describe current practices, barriers and facilitators, knowledge and educational preferences of registered nurses performing oral health care in the Australian hospital setting, with a focus on the prevention of HAP.

A mixed-methods study on the pharmacological management of pain in Australian and Japanese nursing homes.

Background: Understanding how analgesics are used in different countries can inform initiatives to improve the pharmacological management of pain in nursing homes.

Aims: To compare patterns of analgesic use among Australian and Japanese nursing home residents; and explore Australian and Japanese healthcare professionals' perspectives on analgesic use.

Methods: Part one involved a cross-sectional comparison among residents from 12 nursing homes in South Australia (N = 550) in 2019 and four nursing homes in Tokyo (N = 333) in 2020.

Reforming allied health service provision in residential aged care to improve the rehabilitation reach: a feasibility study.

Objective My Therapy is an allied health guided, co-designed rehabilitation self-management program for residents of aged care facilities. This study aimed to determine the feasibility of implementing My Therapy in a residential aged care setting. Methods This observational study was conducted on a 30-bed wing, within a 90-bed metropolitan residential aged care facility, attached to a public health service, in Victoria, Australia.

Work engagement, psychological empowerment and relational coordination in long-term care: A mixed-method examination of nurses' perceptions and experiences.

Nurse engagement, empowerment and strong relationships among staff, residents and families, are essential to attract and retain a suitably qualified and skilled nursing workforce for safe, quality care. There is, however, limited research that explores engagement, empowerment and relational coordination in long-term care (LTC). Nurses from an older persons' mental health and dementia LTC unit in Australia participated in this study.

Self-reported dignity and factors that influence dignity in hospitalised older adults: A cross-sectional survey.

Objective: This study examined levels of self-reported dignity and explored factors expected to influence dignity experienced by older adults during acute hospitalisation in Ghana.

Background: Dignified care has been recognised as inseparable from quality nursing care and maintaining patients' dignity has been highlighted in professional codes of conduct for nurses. However, there is a lack of research on self-reported dignity and the factors that influence the dignity of older adults during acute hospitalisation in Africa.

Risk of organism acquisition from prior room occupants: An updated systematic review.

Background: Evidence from a previous systematic review indicates that patients admitted to a room where the previous occupant had a multidrug-resistant bacterial infection resulted in an increased risk of subsequent colonisation and infection with the same organism for the next room occupant. In this paper, we have sought to expand and update this review.

Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis was undertaken.

Practical infection control training for Victoria's aged care workforce at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: a community case study.

The need to improve career development and training for residential aged care workers in Australia to achieve required essential competencies, including infection prevention and control competencies, has been repeatedly highlighted. In Australia long-term care settings for older adults are known as residential aged care facilities (RACFs). The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the lack of preparedness of the aged care sector to respond to emergencies, and the urgent need to improve the infection prevention and control training in residential aged care facilities.

Development and psychometric validation of the hospitalized older adults' dignity scale for measuring dignity during acute hospitalization.

Aim: To develop and validate a culturally appropriate patient-reported outcome measure for measuring dignity for older adults during acute hospitalization.

Design: A three-phased exploratory sequential mixed-method design was used.

Methods: Domains were identified and items were generated from findings of a recent qualitative study, two systematic reviews and grey literature.

In Australian hospitals and residential aged care facilities, how do we train nursing and direct care staff to assist patients and residents to move? A national survey.

Objective Nursing workplace injuries related to staff-assisted patient/resident movement occur frequently, however, little is known about the programs that aim to prevent these injuries. The objectives of this study were to: (i) describe how Australian hospitals and residential aged care services provide manual handling training to staff and the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on training; (ii) report issues relating to manual handling; (iii) explore the inclusion of dynamic risk assessment; and (iv) describe the barriers and potential improvements. Method Using a cross-sectional design, an online 20-min survey was distributed by email, social media, and snowballing to Australian hospitals and residential aged care services.

Feasibility of implementing an innovative manual handling risk assessment training program for staff working in long-term care.

Background: The Risk Assessment for moving Individuals SafEly (RAISE) program is a hospital-based manual handling nursing training program. RAISE involves upskilling on continual risk assessment during patient-assisted movements. RAISE aims to optimise staff and patient safety while providing the patient with movement and rehabilitation opportunities.

Methodological quality of dignity-related patient reported outcome measures used in acute hospital settings: A systematic review using the COSMIN methodology.

Aims And Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to examine the methodological quality of dignity-related patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) used to measure patients' dignity during acute hospitalisation using the Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) methodology for systematic review of PROMs.

Background: Previous scoping review studies on the methodological quality of dignity-related PROMs lack specificity for dignity during acute hospital admission. They included PROMs that were developed to measure constructs of care other than patient dignity or designed to measure dignity in contexts outside of the acute hospital setting.

A systematic review of patient-reported dignity and dignified care during acute hospital admission.

Aims: To synthesize quantitative evidence on levels of dignity during acute hospital admission and identify barriers and facilitators to patients' dignity or dignified care from the perspective of hospitalized patients. The secondary aim was to examine the relationship between dignity and demographic, clinical and psychological characteristics of patients.

Design: A systematic review based on the protocol of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline for reporting systematic reviews.

Behavioural drivers influencing emergency department attendance in Victoria during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods investigation.

Objective: To identify behavioural drivers and barriers that may have contributed to changes in ED attendance during the first 10 months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Victoria.

Methods: We conducted a mixed methods analysis of patients who attended one of eight participating EDs between 1 November 2019 and 31 December 2020. A random sample of patients were chosen after their visit and invited to participate in an online survey assessing behavioural drivers and barriers to attendance.

Patient dignity and dignified care: A qualitative description of hospitalised older adults perspectives.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore older adults' perspectives about dignity and dignified nursing care during acute hospitalisation in Ghana.

Background: Maintaining hospitalised older adults' dignity is an essential component of nursing care and one of the most important determinants of wellbeing. To date, no study has been published on older adults' perspectives of dignified nursing care in the African context.

Perioperative Nurses' Perceptions Pre-Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record System.

The use of electronic medical record (EMR) systems is transforming health care delivery in hospitals. Perioperative nurses work in a unique high-risk health setting, hence require specific considerations for EMR implementation. This research explored perioperative nurses' perceptions of facilitators and barriers to the implementation of an EMR in their workplace to make context-specific recommendations about strategies to optimise EMR adoption.

Older Nurses' Perceptions of an Electronic Medical Record Implementation.

In Australia, almost 40% of nurses are aged 50 years and older. These nurses may be vulnerable to leaving the workforce due to challenges experienced during electronic medical record (EMR) implementations. This research explored older nurses' perceptions of factors expected to influence their adoption of an EMR, to inform recommendations to support implementation.

Facilitators and Barriers to the Adoption of an Electronic Medical Record System by Intensive Care Nurses.

Introducing new technology, such as an electronic medical record (EMR) into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), can contribute to nurses' stress and negative consequences for patient safety. The aim of this study was to explore ICU nurses' perceptions of factors expected to influence their adoption of an EMR in their workplace. The objectives were to: 1) measure psychological factors expected to influence ICU nurses' adoption of EMR, and 2) explore perceptions of facilitators and barriers to the implementation of an EMR in their workplace.

Factors associated with the decision to prescribe and administer antipsychotics for older people with delirium: a qualitative descriptive study.

Objectives: To explore factors associated with decision-making of nurses and doctors in prescribing and administering as required antipsychotic medications to older people with delirium.

Design: Qualitative descriptive.

Setting: Two acute care hospital organisations in Melbourne, Australia.

Self-management of diabetes and associated comorbidities in rural and remote communities: a scoping review.

Chronic health conditions are more prevalent in rural and remote areas than in metropolitan areas; living in rural and remote areas may present particular barriers to the self-management of chronic conditions like diabetes and comorbidities. The aims of this review were to: (1) synthesise evidence examining the self-management of diabetes and comorbidities among adults living in rural and remote communities; and (2) describe barriers and enablers underpinning self-management reported in studies that met our inclusion criteria. A systematic search of English language papers was undertaken in PsycINFO, Medline Complete, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Complete, EMBASE and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, searching for literature indexed from the beginning of the database until 6 March 2020.

Developing work readiness in graduate nurses undertaking transition to practice programs: An integrative review.

Objective: Investigate the strategies used to support graduate transition-to-practice, and how they align with the four domains of work readiness: work competence; personal work characteristics; organisational acumen; and social intelligence.

Design: Integrative review with narrative synthesis.

Data Sources: Databases searched in 2019 included Medline, CINAHL, PsychINFO, Embase via EBSCO, ERIC and MIDIRS.

Assessing mental health literacy of primary health care workers in Kenya: a cross-sectional survey.

Aim: To assess mental health literacy of health workers in primary health care services in Kenya.

Background: Mental illness is common in Kenya, yet there are fewer than 500 specialist mental health workers to serve Kenya's population of over 50 million. The World Health Organization recommends the integration of mental health care into primary health care services to improve access to and equity of this care, especially in low and middle-income countries.