Bilingual modified flipped learning in international nursing education: A discursive approach.

Finland is experiencing a nurse shortage, leading to the recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs). The Finnish education system aims to attract more international students, including those in healthcare. International nursing students (INS) face challenges due to language barriers and cultural differences.

Health and social care managers' perceptions of factors affecting the competence of managers in knowledge management: A qualitative study.

Aim: To describe health and social care managers' perceptions of the factors affecting the competence of managers in knowledge management.

Design: A qualitative descriptive study.

Methods: A semi-structured interview was conducted with 15 managers from three public health and social care organizations in Finland.

Recognition of nursing qualification and credentialing pathway of Filipino nurses in Finland: A qualitative study.

Aim: To understand the experiences of Filipino internationally educated nurses (FIENs) on their recognition and credentialing pathway in the recruitment process in Finland.

Background: The nursing shortage in Finland results in the recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs) such as those from the Philippines. In the context of migration, IENs experience a rigorous process to become qualified nurses in the destination country.

Functioning, psychiatric symptoms and quality of life of individuals with severe mental disorders after psychiatric rehabilitation.

Purpose: Psychiatric disorders may have a negative effect on individuals' living, forming intimate relationships, education, and employment. The aim of psychiatric rehabilitation is to promote recovery - finding ways to cope with mental disorders despite debilitating symptoms. This study aimed to explore the outcomes of accommodation, social inclusion, psychiatric symptoms, substance and service use, quality of life and subjective recovery of young adults with severe mental illness after psychiatric rehabilitation.

The relationship between sensory impairment and home care client's received care time-A cross-sectional study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between sensory impairment and home care client's received care time.

Design: A cross-sectional multi-source study.

Methods: Data from a self-reported staff survey on care time allocation were merged with registry data from the Resident Assessment Instrument registry (n = 1477).

Linguistic racism towards internationally educated nurses in Finland: Critical reflective analysis.

Background: The shortage of nurses in Finland has prompted the recruitment of Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) from developing countries mostly with fragile health systems. However, linguistic racism has emerged as a growing threat to the safety and well-being of IENs in the country.

Aim: To discuss the consequences of linguistic racism directed towards IENs and to propose solutions to address this issue.

The effectiveness of digital gaming on the functioning and activity of older people living in long-term care facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The population is aging globally. Older people living in long-term care facilities have many functional impairments, such as mobility problems and depression. Digital games and so-called exergames can offer a motivating and entertaining way to maintain older people's physical activity and thus their ability to function.

Effectiveness of technology-based interventions compared with other non-pharmacological interventions for relieving procedural pain in hospitalized neonates: a systematic review.

Objective: The objective of this review was to evaluate the effectiveness of technology-based interventions for relieving procedural pain among hospitalized neonates compared with other non-pharmacological interventions.

Introduction: Neonates who require hospital care often experience acute pain during medical procedures. The current best practice for relieving pain in neonates is the use of non-pharmacological interventions, such as oral solutions or intervention-based human touch.

Family members' perceptions of counselling during visits to loved ones in an adult ICU.

Aims: The study's aims were to (1) assess family members' perceptions of the quality of the counselling they received while visiting a loved one in an adult ICU and (2) identify factors that influence family members' perceptions of counselling quality.

Design: A cross-sectional survey of visiting family members of adult ICU patients.

Methods: Family members (n = 55) at eight ICUs across five Finnish university hospitals completed a cross-sectional survey.

Interorganizational health information exchange-related patient safety incidents: A descriptive register-based qualitative study.

Purpose: The current literature related to patient safety of interorganizational health information is fragmented. This study aims to identify interorganizational health information exchange-related patient safety incidents occurring in the emergency department, emergency medical services, and home care. The research also aimed to describe the causes and consequences of these incidents.

Self-revocation of nurse licences in Finland - nursing response to deteriorating workplace and patient safety: Implications for future nursing action.

Aim: To communicate trends in nurse licence revocation in Finland and examine policies and legislation that have implications for future nursing responses to workplace hazards.

Background: The causes of the shortage of nurses working in Finland are multifactorial and complex. Nurses are joining trade unions and taking industrial action in response to the devaluation of their profession and the underpayment of nurses during the pandemic.

Internationally educated nurses' role in climate change: sustainability and mitigation practices.

Background: There are three related factors affecting climate change and its relationship to the migration of IENs: 1) corporate social responsibility; 2) the code of ethics for nurses; and 3) nursing education. As the highest producer of carbon dioxide emissions, the Global North especially the Nordic Region must also consider its climate change responsibilities when recruiting nurses from the Global South.

Aim: The aim of this article is to discuss the factors affecting climate change and its relationship to the migration of IENs, as well as possible solutions to mitigate its impact.

Problematic Internet Use among Adults: A Cross-Cultural Study in 15 Countries.

Background: The present study compared adult usage patterns of online activities, the frequency rate of problematic internet use (PIU), and risk factors (including the psychopathology associated with PIU, i.e., distress and impulsivity) among adults in 15 countries from Europe, America, and Asia.

Counselling offered to and needed by Finnish adult intensive care unit patients based on patients' records and memories.

Objectives: Objectives of this study were to characterize the counselling (broadly defined) that Finnish adult intensive care unit patients received and needed during intensive care according to patients' records and memories.

Design Setting: The study was based on retrospective analysis of patient records and documented follow-up clinics, using a descriptive, qualitative approach and deductive-inductive content analysis.

Findings: According to both the records and documented memories of 162 patients (56 women and 106 men aged 18-75 years; mean 50.

Effectiveness of mentoring education on health care professionals´ mentoring competence: A systematic review.

Background: Different types of educational approaches are needed to build a mentor's competence in guiding students during clinical practice; this education should be provided in an interprofessional setting.

Objectives: The objective of this review was to evaluate how effective mentoring education interventions are at improving mentoring competence among health care professionals.

Design: A systematic review.

The association of problematic gaming characteristics with dietary habits among Finnish vocational school students.

Digital gaming is a popular pastime among young people, but its links to dietary habits have been little studied. The purpose of the study was to describe dietary habits and to examine their associations to problematic gaming behavior with regard to the degree of daily digital gaming time and the overall levels of disordered-like gaming behavior among students in vocational education in the Oulu region of Finland. This cross-sectional study consisted of a total of 773 first-year vocational school students who had played digital games regularly.

Effects of a 360° virtual counselling environment on patient anxiety and CCTA process time: A randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: This study investigated whether a 360° virtual counselling environment (360°VCE) was more effective at decreasing patients' anxiety than routine standard of care counselling for patients undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA), and if there was any difference in the process times for both of these groups.

Methods: A total of 86 patients underwent CCTA in this randomised controlled trial. Patients were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups.

Women's perceptions of counselling on pain assessment and management during labour in Finland: A cross-sectional survey.

Background: The challenge is to identify pain assessment counselling that are effective and reliable to the woman during labour while also supporting appropriate management of labour pain.

Objective: This study aimed to describe women's perceptions of their counselling on pain assessment and pain management during labour.

Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional study.

The Factors for Success and Lack of Success in the Breast Cancer Patient Care Pathway: A Qualitative Study From the Health Care Staff Perspective.

Objective: To produce information about factors related to successful and unsuccessful breast cancer care pathways from the health care staff perspective.

Materials And Methods: An electronic qualitative survey was used to collect data simultaneously from hospitals located in four different countries, focusing on four professional groups: diagnostic radiographers; radiation therapists; breast cancer nurses; and biomedical laboratory scientists (n = 23). The hospitals participating in the study treat breast cancer patients and research permits were applied from all of them.

Safe patient handling education: analysis from European higher education institutions.

Objectives: According to current research, patient handling is not universally taught in academic nursing programs in Europe. Miscellaneous patient handling education may expose students and novice health care workers to occupational hazards, especially if the evidence-based contents of safe patient handling are not recognized. Health care workers deal with high physical workloads daily, which points out the importance of evidence-based curricula contents from the early phases of education.

Educational intervention to support development of mentors' competence in mentoring culturally and linguistically diverse nursing students: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Those who mentor nursing students from diverse backgrounds should be educationally prepared to provide safe, culturally appropriate mentoring in clinical learning environments.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of an educational intervention on mentors' competence in mentoring culturally and linguistically diverse nursing students during clinical placement.

Design: Nonrandomised, quasi-experimental study.

Intensive care professionals' perceptions of the quality of counselling provided in the ICU: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Intensive care professionals (ICPs) have a key role in counselling adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their family members. The counselling provided to ICU patients and their family members can be described based on the content, implementation, benefits, and resources.

Aims: The study had two specific aims: first, to assess ICPs' perceptions of the quality of counselling provided to ICU patients and their family members; and second, to explore which factors ICPs feel is associated with the quality of counselling.

Collegiality among social- and health care educators in higher education or vocational institutions: A mixed-method systematic review.

Background: Social- and health care educators collaborate on national and international levels; this collaboration is intrinsically related to collegiality, a concept which has only been scarcely studied among social- and health care educators.

Objectives: To identify the best evidence on social- and health care educators' experiences of collegiality and factors influencing it in educational institutions.

Design: A mixed-methods systematic review.

Women's perceptions of the pain assessment and non-pharmacological pain relief methods used during labor: A cross-sectional survey.

Introduction: The use of non-pharmacological pain relief methods and pain assessment scales during labor has received limited research attention. This study aimed to describe women's perceptions of the pain assessment and non-pharmacological pain relief methods used during labor.

Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted.

Development and testing of an instrument to measure the collegiality competence of social and health care educators.

Background: Previous studies have investigated the competence of social and health care educators from different perspectives. However, there has been little research on the collegiality competence of social and health educators.

Aim / Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and psychometrically test a new collegiality competence instrument (CollegialityComp) designed to enable social and health care educators to self-evaluate their competence in collegiality.