Critical Incident Techniques and Reflection in Nursing and Health Professions Education: Systematic Narrative Review.

Background: The terms critical incident technique and reflection are widely used but often not fully explained, resulting in ambiguity.

Purpose: The aims of this review were to map and describe existing approaches to recording or using critical incidents and reflection in nursing and health professions literature over the last decade; identify challenges, facilitating factors, strengths, and weaknesses; and discuss relevance for nursing education.

Methods: A systematic narrative review was undertaken.

Shared learning from national to international contexts: a research and innovation collaboration to enhance education for patient safety.

Background: Patient safety is key for healthcare across the world and education is critical in improving practice. We drew on existing links to develop the Shared LearnIng from Practice to improve Patient Safety (SLIPPS) group. The group incorporates expertise in education, research, healthcare, healthcare organisation and computing from Norway, Spain, Italy, the UK and Finland.

Caring Interaction with stroke survivors' family members-Family members' and nurses' perspectives.

Aims And Objectives: To examine emotional support given by nurses to family members in the acute phase after a working-aged patient's stroke based on nurses' and family members' experiences.

Background: The number of patients with stroke is increasing globally. There is a lack of knowledge about the emotional support of family members during the acute phase of working-aged stroke victims.

Nurse and midwifery prescribing in Ireland: A scope-of-practice development for worldwide consideration.

For 10 years, select Irish nurses and midwives who pass a rigorous 6 month theory and practical program can prescribe medications and other medicinal products. Given the need for timely, accessible, and affordable health-care services in all countries, this nursing/midwifery education and practice development is worthy of examination. Irish nurse/midwife prescribing occurred following long-term deliberative nursing profession advocacy, nursing education planning, nursing administration and practice planning, interdisciplinary health-care team support and complementary efforts, and government action.

Intraosseous blood samples for point-of-care analysis: agreement between intraosseous and arterial analyses.

Background: Point-of-care (POC) testing is highly useful when treating critically ill patients. In case of difficult vascular access, the intraosseous (IO) route is commonly used, and blood is aspirated to confirm the correct position of the IO-needle. Thus, IO blood samples could be easily accessed for POC analyses in emergency situations.

Final assessment of nursing students in clinical practice: Perspectives of nursing teachers, students and mentors.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the phenomenon of final assessment of the clinical practice of nursing students and to examine whether there were differences in assessments by the students and their teachers and mentors.

Background: Final assessment of students in clinical practice during their education has great importance for ensuring that enough high-quality nursing students are trained, as assessment tasks affect what the nursing student learns during the clinical practice.

Design: This study used descriptive, cross-sectional design.

Summative assessment of clinical practice of student nurses: A review of the literature.

Objectives: To provide an overview of summative assessment of student nurses' practice currently in use.

Design: Narrative review and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative studies.

Data Sources: With the support of an information specialist, the data were collected from scientific databases which included CINAHL, PubMed, Medic, ISI Web of Science, Cochrane library and ERIC published from January 2000 to May 2014.

Learning to ensure patient safety in clinical settings: comparing Finnish and British nursing students' perceptions.

Aims And Objectives: To explore and compare Finnish and British nursing students' perceptions of their learning about patient safety in clinical settings.

Background: Patient safety culture and practices in different health care organisations and clinical units varies, posing challenges for nursing students' learning about patient safety during their clinical placements. Patient safety as a growing international concern has challenged health care professionals globally requiring a comprehensive review.

Hydrophilic compounds in liquids of enzymatic hydrolyzed spruce and pine biomass.

This study was focused on organic acids and metals in biofluids of wood. Without seasoning, fresh woods from spruce and bark, phloem, and heartwood from pine were used as materials, which were degraded with either microbes of oyster mushroom, baker's yeast, or lactic acid bacteria. Due to neutral pH of the fluids, ambient temperature, atmospheric pressure, and short reaction time, native wood microbe populations were supposed to be present.

Determination of statins by gas chromatography - EI/MRM - Tandem mass spectrometry: fermentation of pine samples with Pleurotus ostreatus.

Statins were separated and quantified with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-EI-MS/MS) using total ion monitoring (TIC) and multiple reactions monitoring (MRM). The MRM method in statins determination has a novelty value, since there are no previous studies on their simultaneous analysis in environmental or plant samples. The method development and optimization was challenging due to the physicochemical similarities of the silylated lovastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin, fluvastatin, and atorvastatin.

The nurse's role in addressing unmet treatment and management needs of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Delphi-based recommendations.

Purpose: Evaluate nurse's role in management of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Methods: Modified Delphi with two rounds of questionnaires, followed by in-person meeting. International group of 12 nurses experienced with RA patients receiving biologic therapy.