Nurses' perceptions of using volunteer support in health care settings: A systematic scoping review.

Aims: To understand nurses' perceptions of volunteer support in health care settings.

Background: Increasingly, volunteers provide specialised support to health care service users, requiring volunteers and nurses to work closely together. However, little is known about nurses' perceptions of volunteer support.

The nursing care of people with class III obesity in an acute care setting: a scoping review.

Background: Patients with Class III obesity pose unique challenges to health care staff and organisations. Care requirements of this population are unique and require specialised equipment and knowledge to meet these needs, maintain the quality of care, as well as the safety of patients and staff.

Aim: To synthesise the evidence on the nursing care of Class III obese patients in acute care settings.

The reported external traumas among people with diabetes-related foot ulcers and their outcomes: A systematic review of case reports.

The objective of this systematic review was to collate evidence published in case reports on the reported origins of external traumas that contribute to the development of diabetic foot ulcers and their outcomes. The review also aimed to suggest reporting criteria for external traumas contributing to the development of diabetic foot ulcers. The search strategy led to the identification of 1224 articles across six electronic databases.

Language abilities in children born to mothers diagnosed with diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: This meta-analysis reviewed and synthesized the available evidence on the association between intrauterine exposure to maternal diabetes and language abilities in children.

Method: MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global, and Google Scholar databases were searched through December 2020. Studies were systematically searched, and effect sizes were calculated using random effects models.

The enablers and barriers to children visiting their ill parent/carer in intensive care units: A scoping review.

Aim: The aim of the study was to identify the enablers and/or barriers to children visiting their ill parent/carer in intensive care units by examining the visiting policies as practiced or perceived by nurses and experienced or perceived by parents and caregivers.

Review Method: This is a scoping review following Joanna Briggs Institute Protocol Guidelines.

Data Sources: An extensive literature search of Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, PsychINFO, PubMed, and Excerpta Medica dataBASE databases, using key terms, was conducted between May 2019 and July 2020; studies published between 1990 and 2020 were considered for inclusion.

Motor Developmental Outcomes in Children Exposed to Maternal Diabetes during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Studies on the association of maternal diabetes with motor development in children provide inconsistent findings. We searched MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, Emcare, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar databases for primary observational, case-control, or cohort studies that report on the motor development of children exposed to maternal diabetes during pregnancy. Quality appraisal and data extraction were performed independently and in duplicate.

Foot ulcers associated with external trauma among people with diabetes: An integrative review of the origin of trauma and outcomes.

Background: Foot ulcers are common among people with diabetes. These ulcers are caused by a number of factors including trauma. To date, research findings on the origin of external trauma and the outcome of foot ulcers resulting from an external trauma have not been summarised.

Foot Problems in Patients in Acute Care: A Point-Prevalence Survey.

Purpose: Determine the prevalence of foot problems in an inpatient population and to describe demographic data, comorbid conditions, and type of footwear worn.

Design: Observational point-prevalence cross-sectional design.

Subjects And Setting: The study setting was a 722-bed licensed hospital in Western Australia.

A comparison of nurses' work satisfaction between single-room and multioccupancy adult intensive care units: A mixed-methods integrative review.

Objectives: To systematically review and compare the evidence for the transition from multi- occupancy adult intensive care units to single room intensive care units.

Review Method Used: A mixed methods systematic review informed by Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for Systematic Reviews.

Data Sources: The databases CINAHL, Medline and Embase were searched for primary research articles relating from 2008-2019.

Antecedents, consequences and interventions for workplace bullying.

Purpose Of Review: The issue of workplace bullying has become an area of research interest in the last 3 decades. Much of the extant literature is published in the business management journals. This is problematic as the targets of workplace bullying may need psychiatric treatment; as a discipline, therefore psychiatrists may benefit from a deeper understanding of the nature of workplace bullying and its sequelae.

Australian consumer perceptions of peer support.

Introduction: Peer support in mental health service delivery is a relatively new development in Western Australia, occurring only in the last decade. Consequently, what is known about peer support in mental health has been largely drawn from the overseas literature. The purpose of the present study was to identify how consumers of mental health services in Western Australia viewed the impact that peer support workers had on their life.

Challenges faced by mental health peer support workers: peer support from the peer supporter's point of view.

Objective: This study aimed to identify the various challenges encountered by peer support workers in Western Australia in the course of their work and to identify possible solutions to those challenges.

Method: We used the nominal group technique to collect and analyze the data.

Results: The main challenge encountered by participants was a lack of understanding of the peer support worker role which caused them to experience a sense of exclusion.

Use of 'chronic disease self-management strategies' in mental healthcare.

Purpose Of Review: Medical care for chronic conditions imposes a substantial burden on healthcare systems designed originally for acute illness or injury. The notion of chronic disease self-management (CDSM) has been developed as a means of encouraging individuals with chronic conditions to self-manage their own health. It is known that successful chronic disease management reduces hospital admission rates and improves patients' quality of life.

Behavioural interventions to reduce the risk of physical illness in persons living with mental illness.

Purpose Of Review: It is beyond dispute that people living with mental illness suffer a disproportionate disease burden when compared with people in the general population. This review considers the efficacy and effectiveness of lifestyle behavioural interventions at service delivery level as a strategy to reduce the risk factors that contribute to somatic disease comorbidity. As many factors contribute to the very poor physical health of people living with mental illness and as there are no 'quick fix' remedies, strategies to improve physical health need to be sustainable on a system-wide basis.