Nursing department directors' perspectives on leadership training programme: A descriptive qualitative study.

Background: Leadership training is crucial for nurses to navigate changes, but research on nursing department directors' views of such programmes is limited.

Aim: To explore the perspectives and experiences of nursing department directors regarding a national leadership training programme for mid-level nurse managers.

Design: Descriptive Qualitative Study.

[Reducing the Feeding-Tube Obstruction Rate in Esophageal Cancer Patients With Jejunostomy].

Background & Problems: Patients with esophageal cancer experience chronic dysphagia. This condition typically necessitates the use of a jejunal feeding tube to provide the patient with adequate nutrition. Obstruction of the jejunal feeding tube is common in clinical practice and results in malnutrition in most patients and mortality in the most serious cases.

Critical care nurses' knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral care for patients with oral endotracheal intubation: a questionnaire survey.

Aim: This study investigated intensive care unit nurses' knowledge, attitudes and practices of oral care for intubated patients together with the associated factors of the same.

Background: Effective oral care improves patient comfort and prevents oral infection. Although oral care is a common requirement of nursing practice, providing intubated patients with oral care is a challenging task.

[Oral care practice and procedures in intubated patients: an observational study].

Background: Effective oral care improves patient comfort and prevents oral infection. While common in general nursing practice, administering oral care to intubated patients is particularly challenging.

Purpose: This study investigated practices and factors associated with oral care of intubated patients in intensive care units (ICUs).