Using School-Based Teleconsultation Services to Make Community Health Services Accessible in Semirural Settings of Pakistan: Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study.

Background: In Pakistan's remote areas, quality health care and experienced professionals are scarce. Telehealth can bridge this gap by offering innovative services like teleconsultations. Schools can serve as effective platforms for introducing these services, significantly improving health service access in semirural communities.

Teaching through integration - Action research at a private nursing institution in Karachi, Pakistan.

Objective: This research aims to explore the outcome of teaching through integration, on nursing students learning using Harden model (1984) of curriculum strategy.

Methods: The study used action research as a methodology. Two modules of Year II BScN curriculum were taught through integration to 120 students at a private nursing institute in Karachi, Pakistan.

The effect of a culturally sensitive mental well-being module on Pakistani nursing students' knowledge and beliefs regarding their own mental health and illness.

This study examined the effect of a mental well-being module on undergraduate nursing students' knowledge and beliefs regarding causes and treatment of mental health and illness, and explored the relationship between these variables and depression and anxiety. The one group design incorporated pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention phases, in a consecutive sample of 246 students in a 4-year BScN programme in Pakistan. A culturally sensitive, interactive mental well-being module of four hours length was delivered to three groups of approximately 40 students per group.

Nurses' perceptions about the dignity of intubated patients.

Background: The intensive and critical care units are high-dependency areas, with patients requiring complex care. The intubated status of the intensive and critical care patients makes them dependent on healthcare providers not only for acute care, but also for intimate care, imposing a threat to their dignity. Nurses, being the central care providers, become the stakeholders for dignity promotion.