, Head of Gastrointestinal Nurse Education, St Mark's Hospital, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (jburch1@nhs.net), was runner-up in the Gastrointestinal/Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse of the Year category of the Awards 2021.
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Asia Pac J Oncol Nurs
November 2024
Department of Frontier Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Objective: This study aimed to clarify the physical activity level of patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer during outpatient chemotherapy and the factors associated with decreased physical activity levels after drug administration.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, activity intensity and steps were measured using an accelerometer in 39 patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer for 1 week before and after drug administration. Furthermore, the participants responded to a questionnaire on their lifestyles.
Emerg Med Int
January 2025
Emergency Medicine Department, National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Emergency medicine practitioners encounter significant challenges related to patients who leave emergency departments (EDs) without being seen (LWBS) in the ED. We aimed to assess the characteristics, reasons, and rate of patients who left without being seen in the tertiary teaching hospital ED of King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A qualitative prospective observational study was conducted from January 4, 2023, to May 17, 2023, among patients who left the ED without being seen in the King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University Medical City, a tertiary hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Nurs
January 2025
School of Nursing, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Aim: To identify key factors influencing readiness for hospital discharge and delve into the experiences of stoma patients regarding their discharge.
Design: A mixed-methods study.
Method: A total of 374 colorectal cancer patients with stomas were involved to assess discharge readiness and its influencing factors.
J Am Assoc Nurse Pract
September 2024
Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.
Background: An individual's inability to self-identify or refusal to acknowledge an analgesic adverse drug event (ADE) lengthens the time to ADE treatment and resolution and may worsen the outcome.
Purpose: The purpose was to describe how people who experienced an analgesic ADE during pain self-management respond to the event and to identify predictors of serious analgesic ADEs.
Methodology: The design was a secondary data analysis.
Cancer Nurs
January 2025
Author Affiliations: School of Nursing (Ms Skipper and Drs Rice and Landier), Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship, School of Medicine (Ms Skipper and Drs Wadhwa, York, Bhatia, and Landier), and Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine (Drs Wadhwa, Bhatia, and Landier), University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Background: Parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer require specialized education to provide care for their child at home, including the management of complex medication regimens.
Objective: To assess the complexity of home medication regimens in a cohort of newly diagnosed pediatric oncology patients.
Methods: We inventoried and categorized all discharge medications for each patient and used the Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI) to quantify the complexity of the prescribed medication regimens.
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