British journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing)最新文献

There is a growing body of evidence exploring the health, psychological and social benefits of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) for managing complex issues such as shame, loneliness, stigma and disease adjustment. As a component of CFT, compassionate mind training (CMT) has been found to bring about significant reductions in psychological distress and improvements in levels of compassion, emotion regulation and wellbeing. There is also growing evidence for how these approaches can bring benefits across a variety of psychological and physical health difficulties, including HIV. This study explored how a CMT-informed wellbeing day followed by access to The Self-Compassion App supported people with HIV. Most study participants (97%) found taking part in the session helpful, reporting they felt they had increased their knowledge around compassion and understood the benefits of CMT after engaging in it. The compassionate mind approach and CFT can support and improve psychological wellbeing in people living with HIV.

Vital signs assessment is a critical component of clinical monitoring and a crucial nursing responsibility. Contemporary and past research has found, however, that this assessment is often neglected and remains an enduring problem. Research has identified various contributing or causal factors but, to date, there has been no attempt to show how these factors interrelate. A concept map highlighting these relationships is presented in this article. The map can be used as a tool for developing educational resources to address the enduring neglect of vital signs assessment.

This research explored the lived experiences of 40 undergraduate nursing students from the UK, Canada, Australia and Gibraltar during the COVID-19 pandemic. A retrospective survey of nursing students was aimed at understanding the impact of the pandemic on nursing education, placements and student wellbeing, as well as the challenges and emotional impact students endured associated with caring for COVID-19 patients. The narratives were collected through an online questionnaire disseminated via a Twitter (X) platform on social media. The findings revealed five key themes: the impact of the pandemic on nursing education and support; the impact of the pandemic on placements and student wellbeing; the challenges and realities of caring for COVID-19 patients as a nursing student; the impact of the pandemic on the students' education and placements; and the emotional impact of the pandemic on them. Based on these findings, evidence-based recommendations are provided for supporting nursing students worldwide during pandemics and other public health crises.

Background: Leadership and management is one of the four pillars of advanced practice, which implies that advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) would be well positioned to take on these roles.

Aim: This study aimed to explore whether ACPs' management responsibilities would support their transition into a clinical management role.

Method: This mixed-method narrative literature review uses reflective thematic analysis and a deductive approach to generate themes based on the six critical tasks of a manager mapped to the four pillars of advanced clinical practice. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool was used to assess research quality.

Findings: Eleven articles of varying quality were identified. Research suggests that, although ACPs can demonstrate they already have the skills to fulfil management roles, there is limited evidence that they take on these positions.

Conclusion: ACPs have the clinical background and training to transition into management roles more easily than staff without these prerequisites. Nevertheless, there remains insufficient evidence that this is happening in practice. By promoting and encouraging this role transition, ACPs could use their breadth of skills to become future managers.