Dedicated Education Units optimize the expertise of staff nurses to provide clinical instruction to nursing students, thereby creating a need to prepare staff nurses for the teaching role and educate them about clinical teaching strategies. A curriculum to educate Dedicated Education Unit staff nurses in the art of clinical instruction was created to fill this gap in staff development. This article describes the development of an innovative, interactive, evidence-based curriculum to prepare Dedication Education Unit staff nurses and strengthen an academic-practice partnership.
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Int Wound J
January 2025
Directorate of Nursing, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust/Imperial College London Education Centre, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
Guidance for venous leg ulceration (VLU) recommends compression therapy and early referral for specialist vascular assessment within two weeks. Few patients receive timely assessment and referral. Reasons for this are unclear.
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January 2025
Intensive Care Unit, Mianyang Central Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Mianyang, China.
Purpose: To investigate the knowledge, attitudes and practices of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses regarding acute skin failure (ASF) and analyse the influencing factors thereof.
Methods: From 22 December 2023 to 24 January 2024, a cross-sectional study was conducted amongst ICU nurses from 21 hospitals in eight provinces in China. The ASF knowledge, attitude and practice scores were determined using questionnaires, and multiple linear regression was used for further analysis.
J Adv Nurs
January 2025
Professor of Person Centred Healthcare, South Western Sydney Nursing & Midwifery Research Alliance, The Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
Aims: This paper presents the outcomes and insights gained from the implementation of an Improvement Science program tailored for nursing and midwifery staff within a large local health district in New South Wales. The programme aimed to enhance frontline clinicians' confidence and capability in quality improvement, ultimately improving patient outcomes and safety culture.
Design: Through an explanatory sequential mixed-methods evaluation study, we assessed the programme's effectiveness in building capacity, sustaining practice changes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Anaesthesiologie
January 2025
Abteilung für Anästhesie und operative Intensivmedizin, Krankenhaus Vilshofen, Vilshofen, Deutschland.
Background: The electronic cognitive aid for emergencies in anesthesia (eGENA) is an app that offers digital support in anesthesiological emergency situations as a cognitive aid tool via checklists for memory and making decisions. The eGENA was published by the German Society of Anesthesiology and has been implemented in the emergency management of the anesthesiological team of the clinic in Potsdam, Germany.
Objective: The primary endpoint was to observe the influence of eGENA on the anesthesiological emergency management on the subjective feeling of assurance as well as on quality of treatment and, therefore, patient safety.
Nurs Open
January 2025
Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Charles University, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
Aims: To explore all medication administration errors (MAEs) throughout the entire process of medication administration by nurses in the inpatient setting, to describe their prevalence, and to analyse associated factors, including deviation from the good practice standards.
Background: Worldwide, MAEs are very common and regarded as a serious risk factor to inpatient safety. Nurses assume an essential role in the hospital setting during the administration of medications.
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