Clinical Characteristics and Variation in Musculoskeletal Complexity of Different Ethnic Populations Accessing Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital's MSK Service: A Service Evaluation.

Introduction: Health inequality is a global public health challenge, limited by insufficient high-quality data and analysis. Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain disorders are more prevalent among ethnic minority groups disproportionately affected by socioeconomic disparities and poor health outcomes. Ethnicity data collection enables NHS organisations and policymakers to understand specific healthcare needs and ensure equitable access and care provision.

Moral distress in nurses in developing economies: an integrative literature review.

Background: Moral distress has been extensively studied in developed economies; however, not much in terms of studies has been carried out in developing economies.

Objective: To review the literature reporting the experience of moral distress in nurses in health care settings in developing economies.

Design: An integrative literataure review was used.

Moral distress experienced by neonatal intensive and paediatric care nurses in Northern Ghana: a qualitative study.

Background: Moral distress has been studied widely in nursing but not in developing economies.

Aim: To investigate how moral distress is experienced by nurses working in neonatal intensive care and paediatric wards in Northern Ghana and to determine support measures offered by nurse managers.

Method: Qualitative descriptive method.

Covid-19, ethical nursing management and codes of conduct: An analysis.

The conduct of nurse managers, and health service managers more widely, has been subject to scrutiny and critique because of high-profile organisational failures in healthcare. This raises concerns about the practice of nursing management and the use of codes of professional and managerial conduct. Some responses to such failures seem to assume that codes of conduct will ensure or at least increase the likelihood that ethical management will be practised.

Understanding the relevance of human rights in healthcare and nursing practice.

While the NHS aims to respect the human rights of every individual, it also has a wider social duty to promote equality in the services it provides. This means that the rights of individual patients are not absolute, because the aim of the NHS is to improve the overall health and well-being of the nation. For example, certain treatments may be withheld from individuals because of the excessive cost to the NHS, or concerns about its clinical effectiveness.

Morality, normativity and measuring moral distress.

It is known that people have been getting distressed for a long-time and healthcare workers, like the military, seem to fit criteria for being at particular risk. Fairly recently a term of art, moral distress, has been added to types of distress at work, though not restricted to work, they can suffer. There are recognized scales that measure psychological distress such as the General Health Questionnaire and the Kessler scales but moral distress it is claimed is different warranting its own scale.

Human rights education in patient care: A literature review and critical discussion.

The identification of human rights issues has become more prominent in statements from national and international nursing organisations such as the American Nurses Association and the United Kingdom's Royal College of Nursing with the International Council of Nursing asserting that human rights are fundamental to and inherent in nursing and that nurses have an obligation to promote people's health rights at all times in all places.However, concern has been expressed about this development. Human rights may be seen as the imposition of legal considerations for nurses and other healthcare workers to bear in mind, as yet more responsibilities with the consequent fear of litigation.

Understanding and applying personality types in healthcare communication.

Understanding personality types can assist nurses in enhancing their understanding of themselves and their colleagues, which in turn can support effective communication. This article outlines the principles of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - a personality inventory that aims to improve the understanding of psychological types - and details the characteristics of the MBTI's 16 different personality types. The article explores how these 16 personality types can influence communication within healthcare teams and between healthcare professionals.

To explore the experience of research nurses who obtain consent from adults in emergency settings to participate in clinical trials, either prospectively or post enrolment.

Aim: To explore the understanding and experiences of research nurses who obtain informed consent from adult patients participating in emergency care research.

Design: Qualitative phenomenographic descriptive study.

Methods: Ten research nurses from six hospitals in England were recruited.

What are research nurses' experiences of obtaining consent from or for patients participating in emergency care research? A qualitative review.

Introduction: If studies are to be valid, recruitment of representative samples is essential. In 2012, 28% of UK emergency departments met the 80% standard for recruitment to trials set by the National Institute for Health Research. Research nurses play a vital role in the conduct of high-quality research, and it has been argued that dedicated research nurses are needed if clinical trials are to recruit successfully to target.

To explore the prevalence and outcomes of advance care planning for patients with left ventricular assist devices: A review.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the prevalence and outcomes of advance care planning for patients with left ventricular assist devices: a review.

Background: End-stage heart failure is associated with significant symptom burden at rest. Left ventricular assist devices are not curative; nevertheless, they alleviate symptoms and prolong survival.

A research-based mantra for compassionate caring.

Background: The United Kingdom introduced the Six C's strategy to help address deficits in approaching nursing care in a compassionate and caring manner.

Objective: To identify the book, article, poem, film or play that most influenced nurse educators' understanding of care and compassion and to articulate a clearer understanding of compassionate caring.

Design: A qualitative study applying discourse analysis to respondents' questionnaires and their nominated narrative.

An adaptable instrument and method for exploring care and compassion.

Background Narratives, particularly when visual and auditory elements are added to words, reveal more about cultures and behaviours, including those present in professional and service settings. Discourse analysis (DA) enables researchers to explicate meanings and understandings linking culture and behaviour. Aim To explain the development of a DA instrument and method for a research study of caring and compassion as expressed in different media.

A moral profession: Nurse educators' selected narratives of care and compassion.

Background:: Lack of compassion is claimed to result in poor and sometimes harmful nursing care. Developing strategies to encourage compassionate caring behaviours are important because there is evidence to suggest a connection between having a moral orientation such as compassion and resulting caring behaviour in practice.

Objective:: This study aimed to articulate a clearer understanding of compassionate caring via nurse educators' selection and use of published texts and film.

The emotion of compassion and the likelihood of its expression in nursing practice.

Philosophical and empirical work on the nature of the emotions is extensive, and there are many theories of emotions. However, all agree that emotions are not knee jerk reactions to stimuli and are open to rational assessment or warrant. This paper's focus is on the condition or conditions for compassion as an emotion and the likelihood that it or they can be met in nursing practice.

Pressure-ulcer management and prevention in acute and primary care.

This article describes a study to ascertain what it is like to follow the processes in practice for prevention and management of pressure ulcers as one aspect of care among others. The participants in this study were bands 5 and 6 staff nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs) (n=72) recruited from two acute and two primary NHS trusts. Data were gathered from open-ended questions via an online survey (n=61) and interviews (n=11).

Virtue ethics and nursing: on what grounds?

Within the nursing ethics literature, there has for some time now been a focus on the role and importance of character for nursing. An overarching rationale for this is the need to examine the sort of person one must be if one is to nurse well or be a good nurse. How one should be to live well or live a/the good life and to nurse well or be a good nurse seems to necessitate a focus on an agent's character as well as actions because character is (for the most part) expressed in action (e.

Contemporary nursing wisdom in the UK and ethical knowing: difficulties in conceptualising the ethics of nursing.

This paper's philosophical ideas are developed from a General Nursing Council for England and Wales Trust-funded study to explore nursing knowledge and wisdom and ways in which these can be translated into clinical practice and fostered in junior nurses. Participants using Carper's (1978) ways of knowing as a framework experienced difficulty conceptualizing a link between the empirics and ethics of nursing. The philosophical problem is how to understand praxis as a moral entity with intrinsic value when so much of value seems to be technical and extrinsic depending on desired ends.

An internal morality of nursing: what it can and cannot do.

It has been claimed that there are certain acts that nurses as people practising nursing (nurses qua nurses) must never do because they are nurses and this is regardless of what the same agent (when not acting in the role of a nurse) should do; that certain actions are not part of proper nursing practice. The concept of an internal morality has been discussed in relation to medicine and has been used to ground the actions proper to medicine in a realist tradition. Although the concept of an internal morality of nursing is not explicitly mentioned in the literature the underpinning ideas about the proper practice of nursing based on philosophical realism I argue equate with it and a discussion of the method of an internal morality can help to understand how arguments against euthanasia (amongst other acts) related to the profession of nursing are far from clear.

Is there unity within the discipline?

This paper will examine a claim that nursing is united by its moral stance. The claim is that there are moral constraints on nurses' actions as people practising nursing (nurses qua nurses) and that they are in some way different from both what for now can be called standard morality and also different from the person's own moral views who also happens to be a nurse, hence the defining and unifying factor for nursing. I will begin by situating the claim within the broader area about the need for a definition to state features that are essential to all and only members of its class.