Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2021 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
Background: Emotional regulation forms an integral part of healthcare delivery. In the performance of the core\nduties of nursing and midwifery, health professionals are expected to enhance occupationally/organisationally\nrequired emotions. The purpose of this study is to explore.\nThe meaning nurses and midwives give to emotional labour as well as the coping resources employed by these\nprofessionals in order to manage the emotional demands of their profession.\nMethod: A qualitative study was conducted using a semi-structured interview guide with fifteen (15) purposively\nselected nurses and midwives. Interviews were recorded and simultaneously translated and transcribed. Thematic\nanalysis was used to analyse the data.\nResults: Our findings showed that participants conceptualized emotional labour as display of rules. Sadness, abuse\nand bullying, poor incentivisation, emotional exhaustion and emotional mix bag were reported by the participants\nas emotional demands and deficits. Nurses and midwives coped with emotional labour through the use of five (5)\nmain resources: psychological capital, routinisation of emotions, religious resources, social support and job security.\nConclusion: Nursing and midwifery professional duties are accompanied with emotional regulations which tend to\nhave consequential effects on a myriad of work-related issues. Clinical healthcare training needs to intensify and\nequip professionals with the skills of regulating and managing their emotions since managing emotional demands\nare central to effective healthcare delivery....
Background: Communication is a cornerstone in nursing and aims at both information exchange and relationship\nbuilding. To date, little is known about the naturally occurring communication between older persons and nurses\nin home care. Communication might heal through different pathways and a patient- or person-centered\ncommunication could be important for health and well-being of older persons. However, the delivery of\nindividualized home care is challenged by routines and organizational demands such as time constraints. Therefore,\nthe aim of this study was to explore the patient-centered aspects of home care communication between older\npersons and registered nurses.\nMethods: In total 37 older persons (aged 65 years or older) and eleven RNs participated in 50 audio-recorded\nhome care visits. Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS) was used to code verbal communication. A ratio from\nthese codes, establishing the degree of patient-centeredness, was analyzed using a Generalized Linear Mixed\nModel.\nResults: The present home care communication contained more socio-emotional than task-oriented\ncommunication..............................
Background. Shock is one of the causes of mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU). Traditionally, hemodynamics related to shock\nhave been monitored by broad-spectrum devices with treatment guided by many inaccurate variables to describe the\npathophysiological changes. Critical care ultrasound (CCUS) has been widely advocated as a preferred tool to monitor shock\npatients. The purpose of this study was to analyze and broaden current knowledge of the characteristics of ultrasonic\nhemodynamic pattern and investigate their relationship to outcome. Methods. This prospective study of shock patients in CCUS\nwas conducted in 181 adult patients between April 2016 and June 2017 in the Department of Intensive Care Unit of West China\nHospital. CCUS was performed within the initial 6 hours after shock patients were enrolled. The demographic and clinical\ncharacteristics, ultrasonic pattern of hemodynamics, and outcome were recorded. A stepwise bivariate logistic regression model\nwas established to identify the correlation between ultrasonic variables......................................
Multi-professional collaboration is being promoted worldwide as a response\nto the need for sophisticated medical care and for catering to patientsâ?? diverse\nneeds. Patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are seriously ill, and their families\nmay be at risk depending on the patientâ??s situation. Considering these\ncharacteristics of patients and families, there is a strong need for multi-\nprofessional collaboration within ICUs. The purpose of this descriptive\nstudy was to examine recognition and other factors related to collaboration\nand satisfaction involving care decisions in Japanese ICUs. A mail survey\nabout collaboration of activities and systems was sent to physicians, clinical\nengineers, and nurses working in ICUs in Japan, 387 consented to participate\nin this study. Results showed that satisfaction scores were generally high\namong the three aforementioned professions, but collaboration scores on deciding\ncare for patients showed significant differences..........................
Background: Scientific knowledge and theory constitute part of the nurseâ??s competence and evidence-based\nnursing practice. To obtain and maintain these skills, nurses require access to research utilization. The aim of the\npresent study was therefore to describe and compare nurses in nursing homes and home-based nursing care and\ntheir use of research knowledge in their practice in elderly care in Norwegian rural districts.\nMethods: The Research Utilization Questionnaire (RUQ) was employed in cross-sectional quantitative design.\nOne hundred nurses were recruited from ten rural municipalities that participated in the study. Inclusion\ncriteria for participating were registered nurses and employees working in the municipal elderly care service\nfor 6 months or more.\nResults: Most participants were younger than 55 years old, worked in permanent jobs, and were educated\nmore than 5 years ago. The result showed that nurses in nursing homes were significantly more positive\ncompared to nurses in home-based nursing care when analyzing all three domains in the RUQ together, as\nwell as for attitudes towards research when testing each domain separated. Overall, each item in the domains\nrevealed opinions that were more positive for nurses in nursing homes. The regression analysis showed that\nattitudes towards research, as well as availability and support of research utilization predicted the use of\nresearch in daily practice.\nConclusions: Positive attitudes, availability, and support for research utilization can contribute to greater use\nof research in nursing practice and improve the quality of service. Younger nursesâ?? knowledge about using\nresearch should be shared with senior colleagues, who possess much experience in practice. In collaboration,\nthey can develop evidence-based practice by the implementation of research seen in the context of nursesâ??\nexperiences, user involvement, and person-centred practice. The i-PARIHS (Promoting Action on Research\nImplementation in Health Services) framework can be a useful tool in this implementation process....
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