Nursing
Research: Predictors of Moral Distress in a US Sample of Critical Care Nurses
16 Jan, 2018 | 17:18h | UTCCommentary: Improving the Work Environment Could Reduce Moral Distress Among ICU Nurses – American Association of Critical Care Nurses, via NewsWise (free)
Most ICU Monitoring Alarms Are Not Clinically Relevant
16 Jan, 2018 | 17:06h | UTCCommentary: Most ICU Monitoring Alarms Are Not Clinically Relevant, Even as Technology Becomes More Accurate – American Association of Critical Care Nurses, via NewsWise (free)
Dressings and Topical Agents for Healing Pressure Ulcers
16 Jan, 2018 | 17:01h | UTC
14 Improving Patient Flow in the ED: 7 Strategies for Nurses
16 Jan, 2018 | 13:48h | UTCWTBS 14 Improving Patient Flow in the ED: 7 Strategies for Nurses – Emergency Medicine Cases (free)
Related White Paper: Achieving Hospital-wide Patient Flow: The Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (free registration required – PDF)
Checklists are no Substitute for Experience in Spotting Patients who are Deteriorating
12 Jan, 2018 | 16:51h | UTCChecklists are no substitute for experience in spotting patients who are deteriorating – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Early warning systems and rapid response to the deteriorating patient in hospital: A systematic realist review – Journal of Advanced Nursing (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Position Statement on Informal Breast Milk Sharing for the Term Healthy Infant
12 Jan, 2018 | 16:40h | UTCNews release: The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Issues Guidance on Informal Milk Sharing for Healthy Term infants (free)
Research: Night Shift Work Increases the Risks of Multiple Primary Cancers in Women
10 Jan, 2018 | 00:27h | UTCNight Shift Work Increases the Risks of Multiple Primary Cancers in Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of 61 Articles – Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Online (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Night shifts raise women’s cancer risk – Medical News Today (free) AND Night Shifts Increase Breast Cancer Risk, Especially for Nurses – Medscape (free registration required) AND Female Night Shift Workers May Have Increased Risk of Common Cancers – American Association for Cancer Research (free)
Systematic Review: Does Support and Intervention from Nurses Help People to Stop Smoking?
2 Jan, 2018 | 16:04h | UTCDoes support and intervention from nurses help people to stop smoking? – Cochrane Library (free)
“There is moderate quality evidence that behavioural support to motivate and sustain smoking cessation delivered by nurses can lead to a modest increase in the number of people who achieve prolonged abstinence”.
Review: Managing Mental Health Emergencies in the ED
2 Jan, 2018 | 15:52h | UTCManaging Mental Health Emergencies in the ED – American Nurse Today, via Medscape (free registration required)
Systematic Review: Whole-System Approaches to Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Healthcare Workers
1 Jan, 2018 | 12:24h | UTC
Guideline – Achieving Hospital-wide Patient Flow: The Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time
1 Jan, 2018 | 12:15h | UTCWhite Paper: Achieving Hospital-wide Patient Flow: The Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time – Institute for Healthcare Improvement (free registration required – PDF) (via @brhospitalist and @TheIHI see Tweet)
Meta-Analysis: Implementation Strategies for Blood Pressure Control in Hypertensive Patients
29 Dec, 2017 | 17:46h | UTCComparative Effectiveness of Implementation Strategies for Blood Pressure Control in Hypertensive Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentaries: Meta-Analysis: It Takes a Team to Optimize Hypertension Tx – MedPage Today (free registration required) AND Blood pressure control best achieved with a multilevel, multicomponent approach – American College of Physicians, via EurekAlert (free)
Performance Improvement: Insulin Dosing Error in a Patient With Severe Hyperkalemia
29 Dec, 2017 | 17:48h | UTCInsulin Dosing Error in a Patient With Severe Hyperkalemia – JAMA (free)
Advancing the Role of Nurses and Midwives
29 Dec, 2017 | 17:01h | UTCNews release: Learning from Ireland: expanding the role of nurses and midwives to improve health outcomes (free)
Medication Adherence: Evidence Review
27 Dec, 2017 | 20:54h | UTCMedication adherence: evidence review – Evidently Cochrane (free)
Review – Healthcare-Acquired Infections: Prevention Strategies
26 Dec, 2017 | 23:29h | UTCHealthcare-acquired infections: prevention strategies – Internal Medicine Journal (free)
Source: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Research: Can Sleep Quality and Burnout Affect the Job Performance of Shift-Work Nurses?
26 Dec, 2017 | 20:12h | UTCCan sleep quality and burnout affect the job performance of shift-work nurses? A hospital cross-sectional study – Journal of Advanced Nursing (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Shift work linked to burnout in sleep-deprived nurses – Reuters (free)
Standards for Intensive Care Nursing
26 Dec, 2017 | 19:42h | UTC
Placing wet gauze on babies’ tummies speeds up urine collection
23 Oct, 2017 | 20:37h | UTCPlacing wet gauze on babies’ tummies speeds up urine collection – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Faster clean catch urine collection (Quick-Wee method) from infants: randomised controlled trial – The BMJ (free)
Individual support of nurses using electronic medicine monitors can improve HIV treatment
17 Oct, 2017 | 17:51h | UTCIndividual support of nurses using electronic medicine monitors can improve HIV treatment – NIHR Signal (free)
Original article: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a nurse-delivered intervention to improve adherence to treatment for HIV: a pragmatic, multicentre, open-label, randomised clinical trial – The Lancet Infectious Diseases (free)
Review: Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Nursing Education
7 Oct, 2017 | 21:40h | UTC
Choosing Wisely Canada: Nine Things Nurse Practitioners and Patients Should Question
1 Oct, 2017 | 16:17h | UTCNew Guide from Choosing Wisely Canada: Nine Things Nurse Practitioners and Patients Should Question – Nurse Practitioner Association of Canada (free)
See more on the Choosing Wisely initiative in our April 5 issue (see #6)
Breastfeeding: five ways it can be encouraged responsibly
4 Sep, 2017 | 15:03h | UTCBreastfeeding: five ways it can be encouraged responsibly – The Conversation (free)
Study: A fast and frugal algorithm to strengthen diagnosis and treatment decisions for catheter-associated bacteriuria
4 Sep, 2017 | 14:36h | UTCSource: Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal Club
Study: Is late-life dependency increasing or not?
26 Aug, 2017 | 17:03h | UTCCommentaries: The burden of triumph: meeting health and social care needs – The Lancet (free) AND Do we really need 200,000 more care home beds? – The Guardian (free) AND Time spent frail in old age ‘doubles’ – BBC (free)
“The amount of time spent needing daily care in late life has doubled in England over the past two decades, a study suggests”. (from BBC)