Helping the helpers: Understanding information and support needs of caregivers in underserved communities.

Informal caregivers caring for patients at the end of life in rural geographic areas may have inadequate support due to insufficient community-based palliative care services. We conducted a parallel mixed-methods study to understand informal caregivers' unmet supportive, educational, and informational needs living in rural areas with limited community-based palliative care services. Forty-four caregivers of loved ones that died at home between December 2017 and September 2020 completed the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) and 14 caregivers were interviewed.

Northeastern Ontario nurses' perceptions of e-learning: An interpretive description.

Background: E-learning is a common method of continuing education for nurses that supports professional competencies and learning needs. However, variations in setting, information technology, and quality of the e-learning may impact these experiences.

Objective: To explore registered nurses' perceptions of e-learning in a hospital setting.

Characteristics of Nurse Practitioner Practice in Family Health Teams in Ontario, Canada.

Nurse practitioners (NPs) in Ontario work in a number of settings, including physician-led, interprofessional Family Health Teams (FHTs). However, many aspects of NP practice within the FHTs are unknown. Our study aimed to describe the characteristics of NP practice in FHTs and the relationships between NPs and physicians within this model.

Identifying the Factors Associated With Canadian Registered Nurses' Engagement in Advance Care Planning.

Advance care planning (ACP) is a series of discussions in which patient values and wishes for end-of-life care are made known. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which registered nurses (RNs) engaged in ACP with their patients and understand the factors associated with this practice decision in Canada. One hundred twenty-five RNs participated in this cross-sectional descriptive survey.

Development of Nurse Practitioner Competencies for Advance Care Planning.

This article describes the development of nurse practitioner (NP) competencies for advance care planning. Nurse practitioners are well positioned to implement advance care planning with their patients; however, very few patients have an advance care plan. A modified Delphi method was used to engage NPs in achieving consensus for advance care planning competencies.

Exploring Self-Perceptions of Anxiety among Nursing Students in the Clinical Setting and Select Demographics.

Clinical learning experiences are essential in nursing education but they are often anxiety provoking for learners. Understanding the factors associated with the anxiety levels of nursing students in clinical placements has become more complex over the years with increasing heterogeneity within the nursing population. A correlational study was conducted to examine the relationships between nursing students' self-perceived anxiety levels, as measured by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and the students' age, gender, previous employment, and previous education.

Nurse practitioner's perceptions of the impact of the nurse practitioner-led clinic model on the quality of care of complex patients.

AimTo evaluate the organizational processes that influence the quality of care for patients with multimorbidity at nurse practitioner-led clinics (NPLCs). BACKGROUND: People are living longer, most with one or more chronic diseases (mulitmorbidity) and primary healthcare for these patients has become increasingly complex. One response was the establishment of new models of primary healthcare.

Quality of Care for Patients With Diabetes and Mulitmorbidity Registered at Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics.

Background Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics are a new model of primary healthcare in Ontario. Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics are distinctive in that nurse practitioners are the primary care providers working with an interprofessional team. There have been no evaluations of the quality of care within the Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic model.

The meaning of home for ageing women living alone: An evolutionary concept analysis.

The concept of home to women ageing should be visited in the light of ongoing cultural, political, temporal and disciplinary evolutions. In part, to compliment policies increasing focus on supporting older adults to age in place and a growing attention on the home as a place where healthcare is designed and provided. The following concept analysis utilises Rodgers' evolutionary method to inductively analyse literature in order to elicit the meaning and experience of home among older women who are ageing at home.