Final clinical practicum, transition experience and turnover intentions among newly graduated nurses: A cross sectional study.

Background: The shortage of nurses is a global issue, and turnover rates are especially high for newly graduated nurses. The transition from student to nurse is often described as challenging, and the final clinical practicum before graduation is suggested to be important in preparing graduating students for the transition. However, little is known about the actual relationships between the final clinical practicum, transition and turnover intentions.

Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on quality of life of patients with schizophrenia and related disorders: A systematic review.

Background: Improving the quality of life of patients with schizophrenia is emphasized all over the world.

Aim: To identify and synthesize the best available evidence on the effectiveness of family interventions, patient education, social skills training and vocational rehabilitation on the quality of life of patients with schizophrenia and related disorders.

Method: A systematic literature review.

Development of an education scheme for improving perioperative nurses' competence in ergonomics.

Background: Perioperative nurses have several high-risk tasks. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are severe problems, while preventive measures are mostly insufficient. The 'Ergonomic patient handling card®' education scheme was introduced in Finland in 2009 aimed at improving both nurses' and patients' safety.

Body surface area and glucose tolerance - The smaller the person, the greater the 2-hour plasma glucose.

Background: The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is standardized globally with a uniform glucose load of 75 g to all adults irrespective of body size. An inverse association between body height and 2-hour postload plasma glucose (2hPG) has been demonstrated. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between body surface area (BSA) and plasma glucose values during an OGTT.

Prospective multicentre cohort trial on acute appendicitis and microbiota, aetiology and effects of antimicrobial treatment: study protocol for the MAPPAC (Microbiology APPendicitis ACuta) trial.

Introduction: Based on the epidemiological and clinical data, acute appendicitis can present either as uncomplicated or complicated. The aetiology of these different appendicitis forms remains unknown. Antibiotic therapy has been shown to be safe, efficient and cost-effective for CT-confirmed uncomplicated acute appendicitis.

Alexithymia, body mass index and gestational diabetes in pregnant women - FinnBrain birth cohort study.

Objective: Overweight, obesity, and associated problems in metabolic health are an increasing public health concern. Personality traits and emotional processing styles may play a role in the regulation of food intake and reward. Alexithymia is a personality construct involving difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions and has been previously associated with eating disorders and metabolic problems.

Contents of Informational and Management Continuity of Care.

Continuity of patient care (COC) is considered an essential feature of good quality care, but the ambiguity of the concept has given rise to methodological challenges in scientific studies. This study has a strong link to the functional definitions of electronic health records (EHR). In order to evaluate how COC is achieved, through a discharge summary, for example, the contents of COC should be defined.

Standardizing Key Issues from Hospital Through an Electronic Multi-Professional Discharge Checklist to Ensure Continuity of Care.

This article describes development of the multi-professional discharge checklist and its implementation into the nursing documentation system (NDS) as part of the patient's overall care plan. The aim was to harmonize patient's admission and care period documentation and to improve the quality of electronic nursing discharge summaries. The ultimate goal was to ensure continuity of care.

In Vivo Availability of Cannabinoid 1 Receptor Levels in Patients With First-Episode Psychosis.

Importance: Experimental and epidemiological studies implicate the cannabinoid 1 receptor (CB1R) in the pathophysiology of psychosis. However, whether CB1R levels are altered in the early stages of psychosis and whether they are linked to cognitive function or symptom severity remain unknown.

Objective: To investigate CB1R availability in first-episode psychosis (FEP) without the confounds of illness chronicity or the use of illicit substances or antipsychotics.

A patient with Korsakoff syndrome of psychiatric and alcoholic etiology presenting as DSM-5 mild neurocognitive disorder.

Wernicke's encephalopathy (WE) and Korsakoff syndrome (KS) are underdiagnosed. The DSM-5 has raised the diagnostic threshold by including KS in the major neurocognitive disorders, which requires that the patient needs help in everyday activities. We report clinical, neuropsychological, and radiological findings from a patient who developed Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome as a result of alcohol use and weight loss due to major depression.

Local treatment of pressure ulcers in long-term care: a correlational cross-sectional study.

Objective: To analyse the treatment of pressure ulcers (PU) in long-term care.

Method: In this correlational cross-sectional study, data was collected between November 2015 and January 2016 from older people with PUs in private and public long-term care facilities in Finland. Data collection was conducted by trained nurses using the Pressure Ulcer Patient Instrument (PUP-Ins).

Identification of Motor Symptoms Related to Parkinson Disease Using Motion-Tracking Sensors at Home (KÄVELI): Protocol for an Observational Case-Control Study.

Background: Clinical characterization of motion in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) is challenging: symptom progression, suitability of medication, and level of independence in the home environment can vary across time and patients. Appointments at the neurological outpatient clinic provide a limited understanding of the overall situation. In order to follow up these variations, longer-term measurements performed outside of the clinic setting could help optimize and personalize therapies.

Neuronavigated Versus Non-navigated Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Chronic Tinnitus: A Randomized Study.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown variable effect on tinnitus. A prospective, randomized 6-month follow-up study on parallel groups was conducted to compare the effects of neuronavigated rTMS to non-navigated rTMS in chronic tinnitus. Forty patients (20 men, 20 women), mean age of 52.

Ethical problems in nursing management: Frequency and difficulty of the problems.

Background: Nurse managers (NMs) lead the biggest personnel group in health care-nurses. They have various responsibilities in clarifying an organization's values to their staff and overseeing and supporting continuous upholding of ethical standards and nurses' ethical competence.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the frequency and difficulty of the ethical problems NMs encounter in their work and to determine the background factors correlating with the problems.

Preventive interventions for pressure ulcers in long-term older people care facilities: A systematic review.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the effectiveness of interventions aimed at pressure ulcer (PU) prevention in long-term older people care facilities (LOPC).

Background: Pressure ulcers cause suffering for patients and constitute a major financial burden. Although most PUs could be prevented, their number has remained high.

Alcohol and tobacco use in men: the role of alexithymia and externally oriented thinking style.

Background: A high prevalence of alexithymia has been consistently reported in alcohol- and drug-dependent populations. However, less is known about the role of alexithymia, and its individual dimensions on substance use in healthier populations.

Objectives: To examine how different alexithymia dimensions associate with substance use, while controlling for confounding factors.

Withdrawal from long-term use of zopiclone, zolpidem and temazepam may improve perceived sleep and quality of life in older adults with primary insomnia.

Long-term use of benzodiazepines or benzodiazepine receptor agonists is widespread, although guidelines recommend short-term use. Only few controlled studies have characterized the effect of discontinuation of their chronic use on sleep and quality of life. We studied perceived sleep and quality of life in 92 older (age 55-91 years) outpatients with primary insomnia before and after withdrawal from long-term use of zopiclone, zolpidem or temazepam (BZDA).

Associations of social support and alexithymia with psychological distress in Finnish young adults.

The positive influence of social support on psychological wellbeing is well documented but the research among young adults is scarce. Additionally, it is still unclear what type of social support explains the positive influence in this age group. Alexithymia has been linked to lacking social support and higher levels of psychological distress, but the underlying mechanisms are not well known.

Korsakoff Syndrome in Non-alcoholic Psychiatric Patients. Variable Cognitive Presentation and Impaired Frontotemporal Connectivity.

Non-alcoholic Wernicke's encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome are greatly underdiagnosed. There are very few reported cases of neuropsychologically documented non-alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome, and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data are scarce. We report clinical characteristics and neuropsychological as well as radiological findings from three psychiatric patients (one woman and two men) with a history of probable undiagnosed non-alcoholic Wernicke's encephalopathy and subsequent chronic memory problems.

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of psychotic depression in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966.

Background: Psychotic depression (PD) is heavily understudied despite high mortality and the severe course of illness. A majority of the studies conducted so far are also largely based on selected clinical samples. The aim of this study was to examine the clinical characteristics of PD in a representative prospective birth cohort sample.

Development of Elderly Service System on the Basis of Big Data.

This presentation includes action proposals with impact to growing older populations and shows how a plan for developing elderly service system was created as one part of a bigger welfare plan at one hospital district in Finland. The central part of preparing a plan was the public administration anonymous Big Data concerning ageing and functional capacity. The aim was to establish a customer-oriented plan based on the need for population service.

Perception of work-related empowerment of nurse managers.

Purpose/aim: The paper aims to analyse the perception of being empowered according to the self-evaluation of nurse managers, presenting it as structural and psychological empowerment.

Methods: A questionnaire-based study was conducted. The sample consisted of 193 nurse managers working in a total of seven university and general level hospitals in Lithuania.

Clinging to closeness: The parental view on developing a close bond with their infants in a NICU.

Objective: To identify and understand how parents develop a close bond to their infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Design: A qualitative descriptive study; closeness and separation stories recorded in a smartphone application by the parents were analyzed using thematic analysis.

Setting And Participants: Twenty-three parents of nineteen infants who were taken care of in a level III NICU in Finland.