Archives of Nursing and Healthcare

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2023 significantly affected emergency medical care. Physicians who regularly saw their patients by appointment were redeployed to emergency care, increasing their reported burnout. Understanding how the burnout of specialists increased from this redeployment during COVID-19 is relevant to finding ways to reduce redeployment burnout in these appointment-based physicians when preparing for future pandemics.

The study by Younas and Maddigan [1] Proposing a policy framework for nursing education for fostering compassion in nursing students: A critical review, focused on the cultivation of the quality of compassion in nursing students. While these authors conducted a credible literature review that led to a conclusion that nurse educators should use a range of approaches to teaching students’ compassion, they did not articulate what those approaches could be.

Background: lack of knowledge and awareness of COVID-19 and radiation safety among healthcare professionals will adversely affect their health and the patients’ safety due to unnecessary radiation exposure and rapid spread of COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and the awareness of both domains; COVID-19 and radiation awareness in one survey study. 

Kinking of an epidural catheter is a rare complication associated with the catheter material, diameter, design and length of introduction inside the epidural space. Flushing test should be attempted before fixation of the catheter on the skin to ensure its normal function. If a kink located distal to the skin is suspected, a slight withdrawal could relieve the obstruction, but usually the complete withdrawal and new catheter placement is needed.

Optimum nutrition is the key for growth and neurodevelopment of the vulnerable preterm neonates, yet immaturity of the gut and risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in this subgroup of neonates create hesitancy regarding aggressive feeding. Feeding practices in the preterm babies are heterogeneous across various neonatal intensive care units. Many neonatal units still differ in terms of feeding intervals, volume of feed initiation and slow versus fast advancement of feeds.

Introduction: Fall prevention measures are a hallmark of high-quality hospital care worldwide. Many of the same risk factors for falls in an acute hospital setting contribute to falls in a behavioral health unit. However, some risk factors are unique to the inpatient psychiatric setting. Factors include the expectation for increased mobilization on an inpatient psychiatric unit, extrapyramidal side effects of medications, orthostatic hypotension as a side effect of medication, inability to use devices such as walkers and canes on psychiatric units because of safety concerns. The current quality improvement study (QI) was designed to investigate the effectiveness of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) approach to reduce falls in the inpatient psychiatric setting.

Eclampsia, a severe form of hypertensive disorder during pregnancy (HDsP), labor, and post birth, characterized by seizures, even life-threatening cerebral hemorrhage, hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count (HELLP) syndrome, multi-organ failure continues to be a real concern around the world, especially low-resource countries. 

The mini-review is an update of the original article: Do bachelor assignments in Danish midwifery- and nursing educations reflect evidence-based practice? A document study [1]. We will summarize the findings from the original article, add an analysis of 140 recent bachelor assignments and present the result of a new search of literature to see recent developments in the field. Our aim is to see if the bachelor assignments present evidence-based nursing. 

The effects of COVID-19 have been of increasing interest in all fields of medicine after the pandemic, especially considering the important impact and incidence of patients infected with coronavirus. Numerous studies have reported the vast clinical implications related to permanent organ and tissue damage after infection and long COVID. 

A logic model was developed as part of an evaluation of a case management program (CMP) for frequent users in a health and social services center in the province of Québec (Canada). Five approaches were used as part of a qualitative multiple case study methodology: analysis of unpublished documents, review of literature on CMPs for frequent users, in-depth interviews, focus groups with stakeholders and participant observations. 

The one conceptual key to improving newborn healthcare outcomes is thought to be bridging the access gap to care, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. However, recent studies have reported conflicting results relative to establishing a link between outcomes and access to care intervention programs.

WHIM (Warts, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Infections, and Myelokathexis) syndrome is a rare primary immunodeficiency disorder characterized by susceptibility to human papillomavirus (HPV) infections, neutropenia, and hypogammaglobulinemia.

Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) through breastfeeding remains a major source of pediatric HIV-1 infection worldwide. To characterize plasma HIV-1 subtype C populations from infected mothers during pregnancy that related to subsequent breast milk transmission, an exploratory study was designed to apply next generation sequencing and a custom bioinformatics pipeline for HIV-1 gp41 extending from heptad repeat region 2 (HR2) through the membrane proximal external region (MPER) and the membrane spanning domain (MSD).

Breathing instruction in physiotherapy is considered an important skill for the assessment and intervention in diaphragmatic dysfunction associated with respiratory disorders. For respiratory physiotherapy, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of respiratory movements in the thorax and abdomen and to evaluate the laterality and difference in movements depending on the site.

Nurses are leaving the profession at an alarming rate [1]. Like soldiers on the battlefield, many nurses post pandemic are left alive but injured, with a catalogue of emotional experiences to wrestle with. Using Stamm’s [2] breakdown, Compassion fatigue (CF) can be understood as the combination burnout and secondary trauma.

We investigated the function and in vivo role of dopamine receptors (BmDopRs) in the silkworm Bombyx mori. During our studies, we discovered that BmDopRs play a crucial role in regulating feeding behavior in silkworm larvae. Here, we review recent findings [1] on the importance of dopamine (DA) and its receptors, particularly the BmDopR3 subtype, in regulating feeding behavior in Bombyx mori.

COVID-19 pandemic is a global threat that is having devastating consequences in congregate settings such as nursing homes and assisted facilities around the world. Several measures have been adapted by the nursing home through the guidance of CMS for protecting the most vulnerable population.

Objective: To study vaccine hesitancy among health care workers who provide direct care in nursing homes and long-term care facilities which cater to the most vulnerable population of the community. 

Nursing homes, neglected for too long by government administrations, have paid a very high tribute to the lack of protective measures and social distancing that COVID-19 has imposed. To date, it has been calculated that almost a fifth of all residents in nursing home in northern Italy have died due to COVID-19, with a mortality of Lombardy nursing homes varying between 10% and 50% of all residents. In some cases, 3-4 guests of a single home died in a single day.

We have made an extensive study of the development of picky eating behavior in childhood, and its effects on diet and growth, using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Mothers were recruited during pregnancy in 1991/2 and they and their child have been followed using questionnaires plus measurements at research clinics from infancy onwards. A wealth of information was collected prospectively about feeding the child in their first 1000 days and beyond. Questions were asked at regular intervals about difficulties parents had in feeding their child and how they responded to these difficulties.