International Journal of Nursing Studies Open Access Articles

The latest Open Access articles published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.

Skill mix, roles and remuneration in the primary care workforce: Who are the healthcare professionals in the primary care teams across the world?

World-wide, shortages of primary care physicians and an increased demand for services have provided the impetus for delivering team-based primary care. The diversity of the primary care workforce is...

Does involving volunteers in the provision of palliative care make a difference to patient and family wellbeing? A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence

March 2015
Bridget Candy | Rachel France | Joe Low | Liz Sampson

Despite the extent of volunteers’ contribution to palliative care, and their role in direct patient care, there has been no systematic evaluation of the evidence-base on volunteers in relation to patient...

Uncertainty, risk analysis and change for Ebola personal protective equipment guidelines

Available online 18 December 2014
C. Raina MacIntyre | Abrar Ahmad Chughtai | Holly Seale | Guy A. Richards | Patricia M. Davidson

Response to Martin-Moreno et al. (2014) Surgical mask or no mask for health workers not a defensible position for Ebola

December 2014
C. Raina MacIntyre | Abrar Ahmad Chughtai | Holly Seale | Guy A. Richards | Patricia M. Davidson

Response to “MacIntyre et al., 2014: Respiratory protection for healthcare workers treating Ebola virus disease (EVD): are facemasks sufficient to meet occupational health and safety obligations?”

December 2014
Jose M. Martin-Moreno | Gilberto Llinás | Juan Martínez-Hernández

The impact of a large-scale quality improvement programme on work engagement: Preliminary results from a national cross-sectional-survey of the ‘Productive Ward’

December 2014
Mark White | John S.G. Wells | Tony Butterworth

Quality improvement (QI) Programmes, like the Productive Ward: Releasing-time-to-care initiative, aim to ‘engage’ and ‘empower’ ward teams to actively participate, innovate and lead quality improvement...

The development and testing of a nurse practitioner secondary prevention intervention for patients after acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study

December 2014
Patricia Harbman

Patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are at high risk for reinfarction and death. Therapies that have been shown to reduce these risks (secondary prevention) continue to be underutilized....

Respiratory protection for healthcare workers treating Ebola virus disease (EVD): Are facemasks sufficient to meet occupational health and safety obligations?

November 2014
C. Raina MacIntyre | Abrar Ahmad Chughtai | Holly Seale | Guy A. Richards | Patricia M. Davidson

Communication between residential aged care facilities and the emergency department: A review of the literature

November 2014
Debra Griffiths | Julia Morphet | Kelli Innes | Kimberley Crawford | Allison Williams

Western countries have encountered an increase in elderly patients transferred from residential aged care facilities to emergency departments. This patient cohort frequently experiences impaired physical...

UPBEAT study patients’ perceptions of the effect of coronary heart disease on their lives: A cross-sectional sub-study

Patients can report positive effects of myocardial infarction. It is unknown whether these effects are sustained or what factors influence adaptation....

Evidence for the existing American Nurses Association-recognized standardized nursing terminologies: A systematic review

To determine the state of the science for the five standardized nursing terminology sets in terms of level of evidence and study focus....

Implementing, embedding and integrating self-management support tools for people with long-term conditions in primary care nursing: A qualitative study

An implementation gap exists between policy aspirations for provision and the delivery of self-management support in primary care. An evidence based training and support package using a whole systems...

Open access publication & the International Journal of Nursing Studies: All that glitters is not gold

May 2014
Peter Griffiths

Nurse staffing, medical staffing and mortality in Intensive Care: An observational study

To investigate whether the size of the workforce (nurses, doctors and support staff) has an impact on the survival chances of critically ill patients both in the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the...

Hospital organizational factors influence work–family conflict in registered nurses: Multilevel modeling of a nation-wide cross-sectional survey in Sweden

May 2014
C. Leineweber | H.S. Chungkham | H. Westerlund | C. Tishelman | R. Lindqvist

The present shortage of registered nurses (RNs) in many European countries is expected to continue and worsen, which poses a substantial threat to the maintenance of healthcare in this region. Work–family...

Life is lived forwards and understood backwards – Experiences of being affected by acute coronary syndrome: A narrative analysis

March 2014
Andreas Fors | Kerstin Dudas | Inger Ekman

Patients affected by acute coronary syndrome (ACS) report several symptoms subsequent to their discharge from hospital. These symptoms prolong their sick leave and complicate their return to the normal...

The nursing work of hospital-based clinical practice guideline implementation: An explanatory systematic review using Normalisation Process Theory

February 2014
Carl May | Andrew Sibley | Katherine Hunt

To investigate the dynamics of nurses’ work in implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines....

The challenges of achieving person-centred care in acute hospitals: A qualitative study of people with dementia and their families

November 2013
Philip Clissett | Davina Porock | Rowan H. Harwood | John R.F. Gladman

Person-centred care has been identified as the ideal approach to caring for people with dementia. Developed in relation to long stay settings, there are challenges to its implementation in acute settings....

Patient risk factors for pressure ulcer development: Systematic review

To identify risk factors independently predictive of pressure ulcer development in adult patient populations?...

Understanding coronary artery disease patients’ decisions regarding the use of chelation therapy for coronary artery disease: Descriptive decision modeling

A considerable number of patients receive chelation therapy to treat their coronary artery disease. However, there is no current empirical evidence to support its use....

(Author)ity abroad: The life writing of colonial nurses

September 2011
Jessica Howell | Anne Marie Rafferty | Anna Snaith

This paper asserts the significance of nurses’ writing within the developing field of life writing studies. It closely examines selected letters written by nurses in the Colonial Nursing Association...

A randomised, controlled study of outcome and cost effectiveness for RA patients attending nurse-led rheumatology clinics: Study protocol of an ongoing nationwide multi-centre study

The rise in the number of patients with arthritis coupled with understaffing of medical services has seen the deployment of Clinical Nurse Specialists in running nurse-led clinics alongside the rheumatologist...

A ‘good hospital’: Nurse and patient perceptions of good clinical care for HIV-positive people on antiretroviral treatment in rural Zimbabwe—A mixed-methods qualitative study

February 2011
Catherine Campbell | Kerry Scott | Claudius Madanhire | Constance Nyamukapa | Simon Gregson

Antiretroviral treatment for HIV is gradually being made available across sub-Saharan Africa. With antiretroviral treatment, HIV can be approached as a chronic, manageable condition rather than a shorter-term...

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The latest Open Access articles published in International Journal of Nursing Studies