Exploring the contribution and impact of master's education for leadership development in adult general nursing: A scoping review.

Aim: The aim of this scoping review was to explore the evidence relating to master's education for leadership development in adult/general nurses who are not in advanced practice or leadership roles and its impact on practice.

Background: The importance of effective, clinical leadership in nursing and health care, has been highlighted following failings reported by Public Inquiries both nationally and internationally. While initiatives have been implemented to address these, the provision of safe, quality care remains problematic.

Duty of care trumps utilitarianism in multi-professional obesity management decisions.

Background: Escalating levels of obesity place enormous and growing demands on Health care provision in the (U.K.) United Kingdom.

Challenges to conducting randomised controlled trials with adults with intellectual disabilities: Experiences of international experts.

Background: Globally, conducting randomised controlled trials can be a complex endeavour. The complexity increases when including participants with cognitive or intellectual disabilities. A fuller understanding of the barriers and challenges that can be expected in such trials may help researchers to make their trials more inclusive for people with disabilities.

Using a Delphi survey to gain an international consensus on the challenges of conducting trials with adults with intellectual disabilities.

Background/aims: People with intellectual disability experience higher rates of multi-morbidity and health inequalities, they are frequently prescribed medications and more likely to have an avoidable or premature death. There is a recognised lack of randomised controlled trials, and subsequently a lack of evidence base, for many of the interventions and treatments provided to people with intellectual disabilities. Very few disability-specific trials are conducted, and people with intellectual, and other cognitive, disabilities are routinely excluded from mainstream trials.

Patient and Professional Factors That Impact the Perceived Likelihood and Confidence of Healthcare Professionals to Discuss Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Deactivation in Advanced Heart Failure: Results From an International Factorial Survey.

Background: Rate of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantations is increasing in patients with advanced heart failure. Despite clear guideline recommendations, discussions addressing deactivation occur infrequently.

Aim: The aim of this article is to explore patient and professional factors that impact perceived likelihood and confidence of healthcare professionals to discuss ICD deactivation.

A systematic review of the methodological and practical challenges of undertaking randomised-controlled trials with cognitive disability populations.

Approximately 10% of the world's population have a cognitive disability. Cognitive disabilities can have a profound impact on a person's social, cognitive or mental functioning, requiring high levels of costly health and social support. Therefore, it is imperative that interventions and services received are based upon a sound evidence-base.

Impact of a web based interactive simulation game (PULSE) on nursing students' experience and performance in life support training--a pilot study.

The delivery of effective life support measures is highly associated with the quality, design and implementation of the education that underpins it. Effectively responding to a critical event is a requirement for all nurses illustrating the need for effective educational approaches from pre-registration training through to enhancing and maintaining life support skills after qualification. This paper reports the findings of utilising a web-based multimedia simulation game PULSE (Platform for Undergraduate Life Support Education).

Understanding dietary decision-making in patients attending a secondary prevention clinic following myocardial infarction.

Aims And Objectives: This study aimed to explore the issues that influence the dietary choices made by patients attending a secondary prevention clinic following a myocardial infarction.

Background: Secondary prevention clinics play an important role in promoting dietary advice, yet evidence suggests that many individuals are neither implementing nor maintaining the lifestyle changes recommended. Research largely focuses on compliance to lifestyle changes in general, and only a small number of quantitative studies address the issues surrounding adherence to dietary advice.

The ethics of non-intervention in a study of patients awaiting coronary artery bypass surgery.

Background: Nurses conducting clinical research frequently encounter ethically challenging situations that require careful analysis if the decisions taken are to be in the best interests of participants, researchers and society. There is a lack of literature which discusses the ethical aspects of the nurse's role in clinical research studies.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to discuss the ethical conflicts and decisions taken during a combined qualitative and quantitative study of patients' experiences whilst awaiting coronary bypass surgery.