Lessons Learned From the Deployment of Registered Nurses to Surged Intensive Care Units During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study.

Aim: To explore the perspectives of nurse educators, clinical nurse educators and nurse specialists with regard to supporting the deployed registered nurses in Australian intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic surge.

Design: A qualitative-descriptive study design was used.

Methods: Intensive care nurse educators, clinical nurse educators and nurse specialists who had been involved with the preparation and support of nurses for deployment to intensive care units for COVID-19 surge were purposively recruited from around Australia.

Using a hybrid Delphi/nominal group technique to develop a tool for appraising the quality of mixed-method grounded theory research.

Background: Among the many methodological approaches used to generate new knowledge in nursing research are mixed methods and grounded theory. However, it can be challenging for researchers to achieve and demonstrate the philosophically congruent integration required in mixed-method, grounded-theory research.

Aim: To use a hybrid of Delphi and nominal group techniques to develop a tool to appraise the quality of mixed-method, grounded-theory research.

Improving Distress Screening for People with Prostate Cancer: Evaluation of an E-Learning Course to Increase Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge.

Objectives: Psychological distress can occur following diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer, compromising psychosocial wellbeing. Improved recognition and management of distress by healthcare professionals can enhance clinical practice and promote evidence-based prostate cancer care. This paper explores the effectiveness and feasibility of the online Distress Screening for Prostate Cancer course, designed to improve healthcare professionals' understanding of screening for prostate cancer-related distress.

Upskill training and preparedness of non-critical-care registered nurses deployed to intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review.

Background: The increase in intensive care unit (ICU) capacity compelled by the COVID-19 pandemic required the rapid deployment of non-critical-care registered nurses to the ICU setting. The upskill training needed to prepare these registered nurses for deployment was rapidly assembled due to the limited timeframe associated with the escalating pandemic. Scoping the literature to identify the content, structure, and effectiveness of the upskill education provided is necessary to identify lessons learnt during the COVID-19 pandemic response so that they may guide workforce preparation for future surge planning.

Coping with COVID-19. Work life experiences of nursing, midwifery and paramedic academics: An international interview study.

Background: The COVID-19 global pandemic was declared in March 2020. By June 2022, the total deaths worldwide attributed to COVID-19 numbered over 6.3 million.

Glycaemic control and its associated factors in patients with type 2 diabetes in the Middle East and North Africa: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aims: To examine the patient-related factors that have been linked to glycaemic control in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Middle Eastern countries.

Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data Sources: A computerized search was conducted using the databases MEDLINE (via PubMed and Ovid), EMBASE, Scopus and CINAHL to identify peer-reviewed articles published in English between 1 January 2010 and 21 May 2020.

Bowen Family Systems Theory: Mapping a framework to support critical care nurses' well-being and care quality.

Intensive care nursing is prone to episodic anxiety linked to patients' immediate needs for treatment. Balancing biomedical interventions with compassionate patient-centred nursing can be particularly anxiety provoking. These patterns of anxiety may impact compassion and patient-centred nursing.

Distress Screening for Men with Prostate Cancer.

Objective: Although screening for distress and referral to evidence-based psychosocial support is a well-endorsed standard of cancer care, the extent to which this standard has been implemented varies widely. Lack of awareness, knowledge and skills in screening for distress in this patient group are likely key barriers to psychosocial care provision. The objective therefore was to discuss the development, design and evaluation of the effectiveness of the Distress Screening for Prostate Cancer (DSPC) module in targeting the perceived challenges and barriers to distress screening and psychological care by healthcare professionals.

Evaluation of the 'Empathic Care of a Vulnerable Older Person' e-simulation.

Background: Healthcare reports have identified that the nursing care provided to frail older people is sometimes indifferent, unkind, and lacking in empathy. Compelling research indicates that these types of healthcare interactions can result in both emotional and physiological harm. Thus, there is a need for authentic learning experiences that enhance nursing students' empathy towards older people and that they can reflect upon, learn from and transfer to their real-world practice.

Health literacy support for Australian home-based care recipients: A role for homecare workers?

Clear links have been established between low health literacy (HL) levels and poor health outcomes. One means of improvement may be found in the rapidly growing paid home care workforce, whose direct and frequent contact with aged/disabled care recipients positions them to provide HL support. This study examines Australian homecare worker (HCW) experiences in HL when providing assistance to their care recipients.

Health literacy training for Australian home care workers: Enablers and barriers.

The rapidly expanding Australian home care workforce represents an untapped resource for improving health literacy (HL) and health outcomes of their clients. Nine home care workers (HCWs) were interviewed for this study to gain data around their experiences of providing HL support to their clients, key HL needs and priorities, and training that would best these needs. Findings indicate that HCWs are providing HL support, and identify a number of enablers and barriers to providing this support.

Home care in Australia: an integrative review.

The home care sector comprises one of Australia's fastest growing workforces, yet few papers capture the overall landscape of Australian home care. This integrative review investigates home care with the aim of better understanding care recipients and their needs, funding, and regulation; care worker skills, tasks, demographics, employment conditions, and training needs. Over 2,700 pieces of literature were analyzed to inform this review.

Insights on compassion and patient-centred nursing in intensive care: A constructivist grounded theory.

Aims And Objectives: To explore patient-centred nursing, compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue from intensive care nurses' perspectives.

Background: Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue can influence critical care nurses' decisions to either continue or leave the profession, and could impact the compassionate patient-centred nursing care patients receive during their ICU admission.

Design: This qualitative research design was informed by Charmaz's Grounded Theory Constructivist methodology.

Compassion satisfaction and fatigue: A cross-sectional survey of Australian intensive care nurses.

Background: Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue influence nurses' intention to stay or leave nursing. Identification of compassion satisfaction or fatigue in critical care nurses is important in this high turnover workforce.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine factors predicting and contributing to compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue experienced by critical care nurses in Australian intensive care units.

An integrative review of supports, facilitators and barriers to patient-centred nursing in the intensive care unit.

Aims And Objectives: To systematically review the literature describing factors perceived by nurses as impacting the provision of patient-centred nursing in the intensive care unit.

Background: Patient-centred nursing in critical care differs from other healthcare areas, and the aggressive curative environment of the ICU has potential to compromise some of its elements. Understanding critical care, nurses' perceptions of promoting and deterrent factors may inform development of strategies to support effective patient-centred nursing and job satisfaction in this workforce.

A concept analysis of patient-centred nursing in the intensive care unit.

Aim: To report an analysis of the concept of patient-centred nursing in the context of intensive care.

Background: Clarification of patient-centred nursing in the intensive care unit is important because consensus definition of this concept is lacking. The severely compromised physiological state of these people and the sequelae of this differentiate patient-centred nursing in intensive care from that occurring in other hospital settings.

An investigation of factors that impact patients' subjective experience of nurse-led clinics: a qualitative systematic review.

Aims And Objectives: To systematically review the qualitative evidence on factors that affect the experience of patients attending nurse-led clinics and compare with key elements of person-centred care.

Background: As the number of nurse-led clinics increases in response to health system needs, evaluation has focused on clinical outcomes and cost. Patient experiences are less researched and yet, they are an important influence on clinical outcomes and an indicator of person-centred care.