Organizational impact of nurse supply and workload on nurses continuing professional development opportunities: an integrative review.

Aim: To identify the best evidence on the impact of healthcare organizations' supply of nurses and nursing workload on the continuing professional development opportunities of Registered Nurses in the acute care hospital.

Background: To maintain registration and professional competence nurses are expected to participate in continuing professional development. One challenge of recruitment and retention is the Registered Nurse's ability to participate in continuing professional development opportunities.

The influence of intimate partnerships on nurse student progression: An integrative literature review.

Objective: To identify the best available evidence on the influence of intimate partnerships (marriage or de facto relationships) on nurse student progression.

Background: Projections of future nursing workforce shortages have provided renewed impetus to study pre-registration nurse student progression. Factors external to the university are highly influential for non-traditional student groups such as nursing.

A structured approach to documenting a search strategy for publication: a 12 step guideline for authors.

Aim: This paper describes a structured approach for documenting a search strategy, prior to the scholarly critique and review of the retrieved literature.

Background And Context: There has been a shift in publication expectations when it comes to the presentation of a literature review, from the more traditional narrative review to a more systematic approach, following a specific framework.

Methods: This paper presents a 12 step framework for documenting the search strategy prior to undertaking a critique and synthesis of the retrieved literature.

Integrated team working: a literature review.

Introduction: This literature review was conducted to provide a background understanding of the literature around integrated health and social care prior to a research project evaluating two integrated health and social care teams in England, UK.

Methods: A systematic literature search of relevant databases was employed to identify all articles relating to integrated health and social care teams produced in the last 10 years in the UK.

Results: Sixteen articles were found and reviewed; all were reviewed by the first reviewer and half by the second reviewer.

Four parts or one whole: The National Health Service (NHS) post-devolution.

Aim(s): There is a need for nurse and midwifery managers to have an understanding of devolution and its implications for them and their colleagues. This paper will explain devolution, consider some health and social care policy including similarities and differences, and assess the impact of devolution on the nursing workforce and the regulation of nursing across the four countries of the United Kingdom (UK).

Background: If managers are to manage effectively it is critical that they remain aware of emerging policy development and outcomes across the UK.

Involving service users and their carers as equal partners in a project using electronic communication.

This paper presents a research team's experience using a virtual steering group to manage a research project. The main research project was concerned with the evaluation and development of interprofessional working among health and social care staff across primary and secondary care in the United Kingdom, with a focus on older people receiving intermediate care. Intermediate care is a service aimed at preventing unnecessary hospital admission; supporting early discharge from hospital; and reducing or delaying the need for residential care in the community.