Despite evidence that exercise-based cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) is an effective intervention, patient uptake and adherence are uncertain. Recent research suggests that home-based CR interventions are as effective and safe as those supervised in a centre.1 Therefore, home-based telemedicine...

Since the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 in late 2019, there has been an unprecedented global change. Each country took actions to respond to the outbreak including guidance development, surveillance and epidemiology, testing, providing emergency supplies and rapid vaccine development. During this time, governments struggled to keep up with misinformation, conspiracy theories, social media rumours and uncertainty.1 This resulted in misinformation...

Refusal of care or resistance to care is the terms frequently used to describe people living with a major NCD refusing care verbally or physically. As people with an NCD have significant cognitive impairment, these behaviours are common...

Early mobilisation (EM) refers to the practice of initiating physical activity that is of sufficient intensity to elicit acute physiological effects...

Violence in the workplace is a common issue in healthcare settings. However, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in the number of reports in...

Men with intellectual disabilities become good fathers with appropriate supports in place. Some fathers with intellectual disabilities were underestimated by partners, relatives and professionals, with their abilities to parent continually questioned. While formal and informal supports were viewed as helpful and necessary, there were differences between the support required and those provided. To develop their parenting skills and competence, fathers with intellectual disabilities require additional support.

This study explored the lived experiences of social support of 20 Polish fathers with intellectual...

Mental health disparities are well documented in the UK, despite free access to healthcare. Individuals from minoritised ethnic groups are more likely than white British individuals to: suffer from undiagnosed and untreated mental illness; access healthcare via crisis pathways (and less likely to access via primary care); and receive a diagnosis of severe mental illness. This is costly...

Oxygen therapy is important in COVID-19 management. The low-flow nasal cannula (NC) has some drawbacks. The patient’s peak inspiratory flow rate requirements are not met due to significant leakage around the source. A need to improve oxygen...

Phenomenography is a method of exploring the phenomenon of interest by examining how a group of individuals experience said phenomenon, uncovering the similarities and differences of this shared experience. The purpose of this paper is to outline the case for phenomenography as a research method ideally suited to explore the complex problems encountered by nurses and midwives within their everyday practice.

Phenomenography emerged in the mid-1970s from the landmark study by Marton and Saljo1 2 where they endeavoured to explain why students at the same university and course arrived at different solutions for the same problems. Phenomenography is a second-order perspective because it focuses on participants and is concerned with understanding the collective view rather than understanding an experience through multiple individual experiences. A key assumption is that individual experiences are ‘logically related’ when phenomena they experience are the...

Several studies have indicated that a significant proportion of patients who have been admitted or discharged from an intensive care unit (ICU) experienced high levels of anxiety and depression.1 2

The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the need to adopt technology in healthcare systems worldwide due to the need for physical distancing and isolation measures, especially in the older adult group.1 2 Several studies have...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been increased interest in Virtual Wards as a viable and cost-effective alternative to hospital-based care. Applying this model of care for frail elderly people has become more common but there remains confusion about the difference and/or overlap in the models of...

Reproductive health is an important aspect of the human rights of women with ID. Described as ‘the forgotten generation’, many women with ID were institutionalised or sterilised following eugenic practices that prevailed for much of the 20th century.1 Important social and human rights advances over the last 50 years have resulted in more opportunities for childbearing for women with ID.2 However, evidence from the...

Research is essential for nursing practice and must be duly enhanced during university training. There is considerable evidence linking research and evidence-based practice to improved nursing practice.1 In this study, Gros-Navés et al sought to assess the impact of writing a bachelor’s thesis on attitudes towards nursing research and development among students/nursing graduates.

Team member familiarity has a positive impact on teamwork and interprofessional communication. Organisational design should consider team member familiarity.

Interprofessional teamwork matters for patient and workforce outcomes. Familiarity of team members is associated with improved teamwork and communication, safety and quality of care, utilisation and patient outcomes. However, much of the existing research is observational in nature. This study evaluated the impact of a team member familiarity intervention on the quality of nurse and resident interactions, perceptions of organisational climate and care outcomes.

This single site randomised clinical trial evaluated the effect of a resident scheduling intervention designed to...

The psychological strain of caring for very ill patients causes significant mental stress for all ICU healthcare professionals. When stress is prolonged, it might eventually cause burn-out and deterioration of patient...

International guidelines1 require healthcare professionals to identify women exposed to IPV, and manage them based on their healthcare needs. To capacitate nurses to effectively respond to these women, undergraduate curricula should include learning outcomes based on evidence-based practice. Shaqiqi and Innab assessed the attitudes of nursing students and their preparedness to manage IPV.2 The study assessed the following variables:...

The clinical environment is the prevailing source of stress during nursing students’ educational experience. Although clinical supervisors are predominantly supportive to students in the clinical environment, current literature recognises certain clinical nursing supervisor actions and behaviours as causes of nursing student clinical stress.1 Clinical supervisors have a responsibility to identify and understand nursing student clinical...