How nurses' moral competence can be supported: Findings from international focus groups with professionals.

Aim: To describe how nurses' moral competence can be supported from the perspective of nurses, nurse managers, researchers, educators, and nursing students.

Background: Moral competence is the capacity or ability of nurses to recognise one's own emotions of what is right or wrong, to reflect on these emotions, to make decisions, and to act in ways that bring the highest level of benefit to patients. Moral competence is part of professional competence.

Accuracy, precision and diagnostic accuracy of oral thermometry in pediatric patients.

Purpose: To determine the accuracy and precision of oral thermometry in pediatric patients, along with its sensitivity and specificity for detecting fever and hypothermia, with rectal thermometry as reference standard.

Design And Methods: This method-comparison study enrolled patients aged between 6 and 17 years, admitted to the surgical ward during a 21-month period. KD-2150 and IVAC Temp Plus II were used for oral and rectal temperature measurements respectively.

Interorganizational Knowledge Transfer in Mass Gatherings: Exploring the Health and Safety Stakeholders' Perceptions Participating in the Athens Marathon.

Introduction: Mass gatherings (MGs) usually represent significant challenges for the public health and safety sector of the host cities. Organizing a safe and successful mass event highly depends on the effective collaboration among different public and private organizations. It is necessary to establish successful coordination to ensure that all the key stakeholders understand their respective roles and responsibilities.

Delayed Admission to the Intensive Care Unit and Mortality of Critically Ill Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Delayed admission of patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) is increasing worldwide and can be followed by adverse outcomes when critical care treatment is not provided timely. This systematic review and meta-analysis appraised and synthesized the published literature about the association between delayed ICU admission and mortality of adult patients. Articles published from inception up to August 2021 in English-language, peer-reviewed journals indexed in CINAHL, PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science were searched by using key terms.

Diagnostic accuracy of oral thermometry for fever detection in adult patients: literature review and meta-analysis.

Aims And Objectives: To synthesise the evidence on the accuracy and precision of oral thermometry in adult patients, as well as on its sensitivity and specificity for fever detection.

Background: Oral thermometry has long been used in various clinical settings thanks to its rapid, safe and convenient measurements, which are easy to obtain and minimally prone to operator errors.

Design: Literature review and meta-analysis that adhered to the PRISMA statement.

Reasons for academic dishonesty during examinations among nursing students: Cross-sectional survey.

Background: Understanding why nursing students engage in academic dishonesty is crucial, since cheating is becoming more common and can be followed by unethical professional practice.

Objectives: To develop and validate a questionnaire for investigating nursing students' perceptions about the reasons for academic dishonesty during examinations, along with identifying the most important of these reasons.

Design: Cross-sectional survey with the use of a convenience sample.

Temporal Artery Thermometry in Pediatric Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Problem: Non-invasive thermometry methods have been used as substitutes for intra-corporeal ones in order to decrease patient discomfort and risk for complications, yet the evaluation of their performance is necessary. Our aim was to synthesize the evidence on the accuracy and precision of temporal artery (TA) thermometry, as well as on its sensitivity and specificity for fever detection.

Eligibility Criteria: This systematic review and meta-analysis included method-comparison studies, which compared TA temperature measurements with invasive thermometry ones, were published between 2000 and 2018, and were conducted on patients aged <18 years.

Nurse understaffing is associated with adverse events in postanaesthesia care unit patients.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the associations between nurse staffing and the incidence and severity of hypoxaemia, arterial hypotension and bradycardia of postoperative patients during their postanaesthesia care unit stay.

Background: Nurse understaffing has been associated with adverse patient outcomes in a variety of hospital settings. In the postanaesthesia care unit, nursing shortage is common and can be related to compromised prevention, detection and treatment of adverse events.

Inadvertent hypothermia and mortality in critically ill adults: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: Considering that inadvertent hypothermia (IH) is common in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients and can be followed by severe complications, this systematic review identified, appraised and synthesised the published literature about the association between IH and mortality in adults admitted to the ICU.

Data Sources: By using key terms, literature searches were conducted in Pubmed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Web of Science and EMBASE.

Review Methods: According to PRISMA guidelines, articles published between 1980-2016 in English-language, peer-reviewed journals were considered.

Gender bias favors female nursing students in the written examination evaluation: Crossover study.

Background: Gender discrimination against male nursing students has been reported and attributed to the female-dominated tradition of nursing profession.

Objectives: To investigate gender bias in the written examination evaluation of undergraduate nursing students.

Design: One-group crossover study with two phases.

Development and psychometric evaluation of an instrument for the assessment of nurses' knowledge on capnography.

Background: Despite the expansion of capnography use, instruments for evaluating healthcare professionals' knowledge about capnography are missing from international literature.

Objectives: To develop and validate an instrument for evaluating nurses' knowledge about capnography, named the "Nurses' Knowledge about Capnography Test" (NKCT).

Method: A literature review was performed to formulate instrument items.

Agreement of infrared temporal artery thermometry with other thermometry methods in adults: systematic review.

Aims And Objectives: To critically review and synthesise the evidence on the agreement of temporal artery thermometry with invasive and noninvasive thermometry methods in hospitalised adults.

Background: Noninvasive thermometry methods aim at combining patient comfort and ease of use with satisfactory accuracy of temperature measurements. Infrared temporal artery thermometry is based on the detection of heat radiated from this artery in the forehead and temporal region.

Perioperative Adverse Respiratory Events in Overweight/Obese Children: Systematic Review.

Childhood obesity is associated with numerous respiratory disorders, which may be aggravated when general anesthesia is administered. This systematic review aimed to investigate and synthesize the published literature on the associations between childhood obesity and perioperative adverse respiratory events (PAREs). By using key terms, observational studies published between 1990 and 2014 in English-language journals indexed by Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Database, and EMBASE were searched for reports of relevant associations.

Nursing students' attitudes toward statistics: Effect of a biostatistics course and association with examination performance.

Background: Although statistical knowledge and skills are necessary for promoting evidence-based practice, health sciences students have expressed anxiety about statistics courses, which may hinder their learning of statistical concepts.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of a biostatistics course on nursing students' attitudes toward statistics and to explore the association between these attitudes and their performance in the course examination.

Design: One-group quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design.

Predictors of nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward postoperative pain in Greece.

Undertreatment of postoperative pain can aggravate patient outcomes and is associated with attending nurses' knowledge deficits or negative attitudes toward pain. The aim of this study was to investigate knowledge and attitudes toward postoperative pain of surgical department nurses and to identify predictors of their knowledge and attitudes. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional survey that took place in the departments of general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, ear-nose-throat surgery, and obstetrics/gynecology at five Greek hospitals.

Nursing personnel's attitudes towards fever and antipyresis of adult patients: cross-sectional survey.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the attitudes of nurses caring for hospitalised adult patients towards fever and antipyresis and to identify the predictors of these attitudes.

Background: Fever is a host defence mechanism, whose harmful effects are limited to specific patients. Findings about antipyretic treatment have further challenged the need for routine or aggressive fever suppression.

Residual neuromuscular blockade and postoperative critical respiratory events: literature review.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate and synthesise published literature on the associations between residual neuromuscular blockade and critical respiratory events of postoperative adult patients in the postanaesthesia care unit.

Background: Residual neuromuscular blockade continues to be common among patients transferred to the postanaesthesia care unit after general anaesthesia, while negative effects of residual neuromuscular blockade on respiratory function have been demonstrated in laboratory volunteers.

Design: Literature review.

Knowledge of pulse oximetry: comparison among intensive care, anesthesiology and emergency nurses.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate pulse oximetry knowledge of nurses employed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Anesthesiology Department (AD) and Emergency Department (ED) and to compare knowledge among these departments/units.

Background: Although pulse oximetry has been widely used in clinical practice, previous studies have reported knowledge deficits among nurses, which may adversely affect patient outcomes.

Design:   Prospective, cross-sectional, multicentre study.

Knowledge is power: studying critical incidents in intensive care.

Despite their difficult definition and taxonomy, it is imperative to study critical incidents in intensive care, since they may be followed by adverse events and compromised patient safety. Identifying recurring patterns and factors contributing to critical incidents constitutes a prerequisite for developing effective preventive strategies. Self-reporting methodology, although widely used for studying critical incidents, has been criticized in terms of reliability and may considerably underestimate both overall frequency and specific types of them.

Deformations and intrusions of the passenger compartment as indicators of injury severity and triage in head-on collisions of non-airbag-carrying vehicles.

In motor vehicle collisions the mechanism of injury is important in determining severity as well as for triage decisions in the pre-hospital phase of patient management. This study correlates deformation of the basic structures of the passenger compartment [windscreen, control panel (dashboard) and steering wheel] with occupants' injuries in passenger vehicle head-on collisions involving non-airbag-carrying vehicles, with or without compartment intrusion. The study took place in the broad urban area of Patras, over an 18-month period (January 2000-June 2001) and evaluated 48 vehicle crashes.