Clinical gerontological nursing competence among licensed practical nurses in healthcare services-A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Aim: This study aimed to describe self-assessed clinical gerontological nursing competence and its associated factors among licensed practical nurses.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted for the study.

Methods: Data were collected in Autumn 2023 from 394 licensed practical nurses working in healthcare services for older people in one well-being services county in Finland.

Enabling rotary atomic layer deposition for optical applications.

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) has been proven as an excellent method for depositing high-quality optical coatings due to its outstanding film quality and precise process control. Unfortunately, batch ALD requires time-consuming purge steps, which leads to low deposition rates and highly time-intensive processes for complex multilayer coatings. Recently, rotary ALD has been proposed for optical applications.

Interorganizational health information exchange-related patient safety incidents: A descriptive register-based qualitative study.

Purpose: The current literature related to patient safety of interorganizational health information is fragmented. This study aims to identify interorganizational health information exchange-related patient safety incidents occurring in the emergency department, emergency medical services, and home care. The research also aimed to describe the causes and consequences of these incidents.

The Impact of Leadership in the Autonomy and Engagement of Nurses: A Cross-sectional Multicenter Study Among Nurses Outside the United States.

Objective: To add to the body of evidence regarding nurse engagement and related factors from a non-US sample of nurses.

Background: Leadership has a positive impact on nurses' autonomy and engagement experiences. It is necessary to explore the factors that explain the relationships between leadership, autonomy, and engagement level.

Using Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis in prospective medication safety risk management in secondary care inpatient wards.

Objectives: The evaluation and improvement of medication management processes is an essential part of preventive medication risk management strategies in hospitals. The aim of the present study was to identify and analyse risks of a new electronic medication management process and to suggest improvements to manage the identified risks in a secondary care hospital.

Methods: The electronic medication management process of four wards at the Lapland Central Hospital, Finland was evaluated by Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA).

Detecting Patient Safety Errors by Characterizing Incidents Reported by Medical Imaging Staff.

The objectives of the study were to characterize events related to patient safety reported by medical imaging personnel in Finland in 2007-2017, the number and quality of reported injuries, the risk assessment, and the planned improvement of operations. The information was collected from a healthcare patient safety incident register system. The data contained information on the nature of the patient safety errors, harms and near-misses in medical imaging, the factors that lead to the events, the consequences for the patient, the level of risks, and future measures.

The Risks and Outcomes Resulting From Medication Errors Reported in the Finnish Tertiary Care Units:: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Register Study.

Hospital-acquired medication errors (MEs) are common in health care. Although voluntary reporting is criticized for not producing reliable estimates on ME frequency, it provides valuable knowledge on errors occurring in the medication process. The purpose of this study was to analyze and determine the risks and outcomes resulting from MEs related to the TOP15 medicines in the Finnish tertiary care units from July 2016 to July 2017.

Nurses' self-assessments of adherence to guidelines on safe medication preparation and administration in long-term elderly care.

Background: Medication-related errors are common in elderly care. Most are detected during the preparation and administration stages of the medication process. Nursing staff have a key role in preventing errors, and it is based on adherence to guidelines.

Data of the recombination loss mechanisms analysis on AlO PERC cell using PC1D and PC2D simulations.

This data article is related to our recently published article ('20.8% industrial PERC solar cell: ALD AlO rear surface passivation, efficiency loss mechanisms analysis and roadmap to 24%', Huang et al., 2017 [1]) where we have presented a systematic evaluation of the overall cell processing and a cost-efficient industrial roadmap for PERC cells.

Data of ALD AlO rear surface passivation, AlO PERC cell performance, and cell efficiency loss mechanisms of AlO PERC cell.

This data article is related to the recently published article '20.8% industrial PERC solar cell: ALD AlO rear surface passivation, efficiency loss mechanisms analysis and roadmap to 24%' (Huang et al., 2017) [1].

Hospitalizations Due to Adverse Drug Events in the Elderly-A Retrospective Register Study.

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are more likely to affect geriatric patients due to physiological changes occurring with aging. Even though this is an internationally recognized problem, similar research data in Finland is still lacking. The aim of this study was to determine the number of geriatric medication-related hospitalizations in the Finnish patient population and to discover the potential means of recognizing patients particularly at risk of ADEs.

Medication competency of nurses according to theoretical and drug calculation online exams: A descriptive correlational study.

Background: Medication administration is an important task of registered nurses. According to previous studies, nurses lack theoretical knowledge and drug calculation skills and knowledge-based mistakes do occur in clinical practice. Finnish health care organizations started to develop a systematic verification processes for medication competence at the end of the last decade.