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Verbal assessment to confirm nursing associates' occupational readiness.
Br J Nurs
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Senior Lecturer, School of Human & Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield.
The aim of nursing programmes is to produce employees who are occupationally ready. One method to assess occupational readiness is a verbal examination of subject area knowledge and understanding. This assessment type is used at a higher education institution in the north of England deemed outstanding by Ofsted.
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Br J Nurs
January 2025
Audit and Surveillance Specialist Nurse, Infection Prevention and Control, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Background: Incidence of peripheral venous cannula (PVC) bacteraemia have been rising in a trust in the south-west of England, with a 267% increase noted over the 2022/23 financial year compared with the previous year.
Aim: To use a multimodal approach to reduce the incidence of PVC bacteraemia and improve patient safety.
Methods: The initiative consisted of an educational poster highlighting the severity of infection associated with PVCs alongside key prevention messages rooted in Trust policy.
Predictive value of insulin resistance metabolic score for cardiovascular disease in Chinese arthritis patients: a prospective cohort study.
Rheumatology (Oxford)
January 2025
Department of Gerontology, CR & WISCO General Hospital, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Objectives: Although patients with arthritis have significantly increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, effective prediction tools remain limited. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of the Metabolic Score for Insulin Resistance (METS-IR) for CVD events among Chinese patients with arthritis.
Methods: Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we conducted a 7-year prospective cohort study (2011-2018) involving 1,059 patients with arthritis.
The optimal annual case volume for acute type A aortic dissection surgery in relation to long-term outcomes.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
January 2025
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+), Netherlands.
Objectives: Previous analyses of the volume-outcome relationship have focused on short-term outcomes such as early mortality. The current study aims to update a novel statistical methodology, facilitating the evaluation of the relation between procedural volume and time-to-event outcomes such as long-term survival, using surgery for acute type A aortic dissection as an illustrative example.
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Background: Transumbilical single-port sleeve gastrectomy (SPSG) is a minimally invasive bariatric surgery that offers cosmetic benefits. However, the procedure's feasibility in patients with higher BMI or taller stature remains debated. This study evaluates the outcomes of SPSG based on patient height and BMI.
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