Publications by authors named "S Tranter"
Background: Evidence links lifestyle factors with Alzheimer's disease (AD). We report the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to determine if intensive lifestyle changes may beneficially affect the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia due to AD.
Methods: A 1:1 multicenter randomized controlled phase 2 trial, ages 45-90 with MCI or early dementia due to AD and a Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score of 18 or higher.
Aims And Objectives: To identify initiatives aimed at retaining ethnically diverse students in Bachelor/Baccalaureate undergraduate nursing programmes. The review focused on identifying strategies attempting to address this issue.
Background: There is a recognised shortage of ethnically diverse registered nurses (RN) worldwide.
The literature reveals that current nephrology practice in obtaining informed consent for dialysis falls short of ethical and legal requirements. Meeting these requirements represents a significant challenge, especially because the benefits and risks of dialysis have shifted significantly with the growing number of older, comorbid patients. The importance of informed consent for dialysis is heightened by several concerns, including: () the proportion of predialysis patients and patients on dialysis who lack capacity in decision making and () whether older, comorbid, and frail patients understand their poor prognosis and the full implications to their independence and functional status of being on dialysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The increased prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is straining the medical workforce and healthcare budget. To improve efficiency, patients require streamlined access to renal and general practice specialist advice.
Objective: The aim of this article is to profile general practitioner (GP) referrals for patients with CKD and compare these referrals to national guidelines.
Background: Dialysis nurses have a unique relationship with their patients and often require bereavement support should a patient death occur. This study was conducted in 2014 and aimed to explore the attitudes of dialysis nurses to death and dying and to identify suitable bereavement strategies following a death of a patient.
Methods: A purposeful, convenience sample of all nurses employed in the dialysis service completed a demographic profile and The Death Attitudes Profile Revisited (DAP_R) survey.