Venous leg ulcers affect 1.5% of the UK adult population. Leg ulcers are painful, can be malodourous and are associated with poor quality of life. Leg ulcers are predominantly cared for by nurses in the community. Frequently, patients receive suboptimal treatment through unwanted variations in care and simple ulcers deteriorate to become hard-to-heal wounds. It is important to understand the current UK system of care and how nurses and patients navigate through it.
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Editorial. Digital platforms and artificial intelligence's (AI) influence on our daily lives often go unnoticed. From the algorithms that support our smartphones and driverless vehicles to the medical diagnostic systems used by health professionals, AI is increasingly taking over decision-making tasks traditionally performed by humans. While enhancing human efficiency, this shift also introduces a myriad of ethical and legal uncertainties that demand our attention.
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In this article, Iwan Dowie discusses the role of the community nurse in relation to safeguarding. The key principles of safeguarding are discussed, and how the community nurse can approach various incidences where they feel their patients may be at risk.
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-Many maternal suicides occur after 42 days post partum, suggesting a need for targeted suicide prevention for late maternal suicides.
-Improved data linkage between suicide and maternal deaths could inform service design and commissioning but requires integration with suicide prevention theory to design and deliver effective suicide prevention interventions.
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The purpose of this paper is to report on a review of people’s experiences of residential and secure in-patient services in Norfolk for those with learning disabilities and autistic people. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
To demonstrate and reflect upon the methodological lessons by which healthcare organizations can address questions of environmental sustainability related to single-use healthcare materials.
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Open discussion would help challenge denial of race-based discrimination and dispel the myth that it is unusual, but staff and managers remain reluctant to raise it
There is a culture of denial about the existence of racism in the NHS workplace and a lack of appetite for much-needed ‘race talk’ among employers, research reveals.
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What this paper adds to existing knowledge?
-The Interactive Approach model can be used to improve communication between nursing staff and patients in numerous critical situations.
-Using a structured risk scale to evaluate a conflict can be an effective way to guide action and sort out the different aspects of communication between nursing staff and psychotic patients.
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- Mental health nurses have positive attitudes towards consumers with dual diagnosis.
- A positive attitude at work is influenced by various factors, including feeling that one's role is appropriate and legitimate. This also includes receiving support in that role, being motivated to work, having confidence in completing tasks and feeling satisfied with one's job.
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-Nurses and nurse managers consider violence risk assessment and management their responsibility. Still, nurses and nurse managers have mixed attitudes towards the use of validated risk assessment tools.
-The attitudes towards service users' positive risk-taking in nurses and nurse managers vary, with some nurses and nurse managers supporting its importance.
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his study aimed to examine health information seeking attitudes and behaviors in an academic-based employee wellness program before and after health literacy workshops were developed and facilitated by an academic health sciences librarian.
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Given the vast quantity of literature available, a key challenge of conducting rapid evidence syntheses is the time and effort required to manually screen large search results sets to identify and include all studies relevant to the research question within an accelerated timeline. To overcome this challenge, the NCCMT investigated the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into the title and abstract screening stage of the rapid review process to expedite the identification of studies relevant to the research question.
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This qualitative study explored the lived experience of people with severe obesity using community health and social care services in Scotland. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This review aims to illustrate how the study of memory suppression may enhance our understanding of substance use disorders by unveiling the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms involved, which could have important implications for addiction treatment. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study, from Sweden, finds adult children of parents with AUD have a raised risk of mood and anxiety disorders even after adjustment for sociodemographic factors and parental mood or anxiety disorder. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This study, from Australia, examines associations between becoming a caregiver and depressive symptoms among men. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The current study aimed to systematically search, review and synthesize the literature on CBT and MI training to assess its effect on practitioner behavioural outcomes. Open access article - no login required.
Journals have a key role in nursing and health care. They are widely used for evidence-based practice and for professional development. In this article, we will look at some of the key features of journals and how you can use libraries to access them.
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This series of articles will explore the neurodivergent condition of autism from a range of different perspectives. This fifth article will explore the co-occurrence of autism and mental health conditions throughout a person's life.
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Overall, ICT fall interventions improved fall efficacy but not cognitive function. For quality of life (QOL), mixed results were found depending on the assessment tools.
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