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Nursing Update: Issue 8-9 August 2020

Nursing Update - Issue 8-9 August 2020

Feature articles

How nursing is ushering us towards a better world
professor Mark Lazenby. Oxford Medcine Online Edited extract from the full chapter ‘Nursing and the Good Society’ from Toward a Better World: The Social Significance of Nursing (Oxford, 2020). See Oxford Medicine Online highlight for full content.

Bringing Palliative Care Downstairs: A Case-Based Approach to Applying Palliative Care Principles to Emergency Department Practice  Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal Issue: Volume 42(3), July/September 2020, p 215-224.
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Strategies for Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Sustainability in the Emergency Department
Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, Issue: Volume 42(3), July/September 2020, p 225-230.
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Vaping: What Every Emergency Nurse Practitioner Should Know!
Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, Issue: Volume 42(2), April/June 2020, p 90-95.
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Managing peripheral intravenous devices in the adults' general surgical setting: a best practice implementation report
International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare. Issue: Volume 12(1), March 2014, p 25-30
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Opioid use disorder education for acute care nurses: An integrative review
Journal of Clinical Nursing, June 2020.
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Plant-based diets and bone health: sorting through the evidence (Editorial)
Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Obesity, Issue: Volume 27(4), August 2020, p 248-252.
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Patients and home carers' experience and perceptions of different modalities of enteral feeding
Journal of Clinical Nursing, Issue: Volume 28(17-18), September 2019, p 3149-3157.
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Achieving Hepatitis C Elimination By Using Person-Centered, Nurse-Led Models of Care: A Discussion of Four International Case Studies
Gastroenterology Nursing. Issue: Volume 43(4), July/August 2020, p 303-309.
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Nursing handoffs and clinical judgments regarding patient risk of deterioration: A mixed‐methods study
Journal of Clinical Nursing, July 2020 (Early View)
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PURPOSE T in Swedish hospital wards and nursing homes: A psychometric evaluation of a new pressure ulcer risk assessment instrument
Journal of Clinical Nursing, August 2020
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Clinicians’ assumptions about Sami culture and experience providing mental health services to Indigenous patients in Norway
Transcultural Psychiatry, April 2020.
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Follow-Up and Management of Patients With Head and Neck Cancer During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Disease Pandemic.
Advances in Radiation Oncology. 5 (4) (pp 631-636), 2020
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Allowing Visitors Back in the Nursing Home During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Dutch National Study Into First Experiences and Impact on Well-Being
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, August 2020
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Health Times, news articles 2015 (Australia)

Surgical Wounds - Part 1: Wound classification, healing intention and risk factors for complications
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Surgical Wounds - Part 2
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Surgical Wounds - Part 3: Surgical wound dehiscence and enterocutaneous fistula
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In the Spotlight

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**Recommended Book: Toward a Better World: The Social Significance of Nursing
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Medication and Patient Safety 
Virtual Issue collection, Journal of Advanced Nursing, JAN (Wiley Online Library) 
 
  • Articles on patient safety, development of a safety culture, safe medication practices, patient involvement in medication practices.

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