The 3Rs initiative, launched to coincide with Nutrition and Hydration Awareness Week, running from 12-18 March, comes at a time when workplace pressures are forcing many staff to miss breaks.
Recent efforts to reduce patient infection rates emphasise the importance of safety culture. However, little evidence exists linking measures of safety culture and infection rates, in part because of the difficulty of collecting both safety culture and infection data from a large number of nursing homes.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
To systematically examine the efficacy of interventions aimed at improving nursing students’ mental health and to identify which form of interventions was effective.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The objectives of the study were to: (1) examine the relationships between three different qualitative perceptions of safety culture and the Canadian Patient Safety Climate Survey factors; (2) determine whether these perceptions are associated with different hand hygiene practices. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Our Health Visiting service has joined forces with the Solihull Approach to give parents free access to the three guides, which are normally chargeable.
The free guides cover the topic of understanding your pregnancy, your baby and your child.
Journal of Nursing Scholarship; Indianapolis Vol. 49, Iss. 6, (Nov 2017): 670-678.
Older people account for the highest proportion of mortality from extreme weather events associated with climate change. This article aims to describe the health impacts of climate change on older people. An integrative review was conducted with 30 studies retrieved from PubMed, EBSCO, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) on climate stressors, determinants of resilient capacity, risk factors, and health outcomes. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
To explore Registered Nurses’ attitudes and behaviour towards patients’ use of complementary therapies.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The aim of this study was to examine the influence of three factors on turnover intention: leader‐member exchange quality, organizational identification and job embeddedness. This area of inquiry has not been fully investigated in the literature.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
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Today we have launched our consultation on our proposed approach to the regulation of nursing associates.
This is a new role created to bridge the gap between healthcare assistants and registered nurses in England.
The Government must invest in the specialist nurses that help babies, children and young families or risk turning back the clock on children’s health in England, the RCN says.
The aim of this study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate a three‐dimensional questionnaire suitable for evaluating personal and organizational accountability in nurses.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Today the RCN is launching the results of a consultation with nurses and midwives on what is needed for nursing to play its full part in the digital transformation of health care.
An exciting new nursing role has been introduced in Cumbria to help grow the future workforce and support staff development.
21 health care assistants from Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) and North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust (NCUH) have now started their Nursing Associate Apprenticeships.
This new role will bridge the gap between health and care support workers and registered nurses.
Many healthcare services are under considerable pressure to reduce costs while improving quality. This is particularly true in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service where postnatal care is sometimes viewed as having a low priority. There is much debate about the service’s redesign and the reallocation of resources, both along care pathways and between groups of mothers and babies with different needs. The aim of this study was to develop a decision support tool that would encourage a systemic approach to service redesign and that could assess the various quality and financial implications of service change options making the consequent trade-offs explicit. The paper describes the development process and an initial implementation as a preliminary exploration of the possible merits of this approach.
Using an interactionist perspective to test on‐the‐job embeddedness and off‐the‐job embeddedness as possible moderators for the predictive effects of job satisfaction and job stress on nurses’ turnover intentions.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To identify the sociodemographic attributes, project characteristics, and champion strategies that differentiate formal from informal nursing champions, and to test their success in terms of project spread and novelty.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.