Publications by authors named "Isabelle Savard"

Background: In contemporary society, misinformation and disinformation have emerged as significant challenges, impacting various aspects of public health and societal cohesion. Some authors argue that older adults are particularly vulnerable to the effects of misinformation due to potential digital health literacy challenges. A previous review identified pedagogical approaches most commonly adopted in interventions aiming to improve the digital literacy of older adults but did not specifically address digital health literacy.

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Background: Wearable devices offer innovative solutions for chronic pain (CP) management by enabling real-time monitoring and personalized pain control. Although they are increasingly used to monitor pain-related parameters, their potential for predicting CP progression remains underutilized. Current studies focus mainly on correlations between data and pain levels, but rarely use this information for accurate prediction.

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Context: In terms of interprofessional education (IPE), clinical internships are an interesting opportunity to anchor theoretical knowledge of interprofessionalism in an authentic context. However, even if there is a diversity of experiences described in the scientific literature regarding placement contexts, objectives, and modalities, no taxonomy is adapted to interprofessional internships.

Purpose: This article, therefore, proposes an original classification of the intensity of experiences and learning in the context of interprofessional internship experiences based on the modality of learning offered, the degree of experience with patients, the predictability and complexity of tasks required, the focus of learning and the duration of the internship.

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Background: Primary healthcare nurse practitioners (PHCNPs) are expanding globally to meet rising healthcare demands. Despite positive outcomes, their added value remains underexplored.

Purpose: To clarify and refine the added value PHCNPs bring.

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To evaluate the effect of a workplace injury prevention and wellness program compared to no intervention (control) on musicians' playing-related musculoskeletal pain intensity. The hypothesis was that musicians who completed the program would have a greater reduction in pain intensity than the control group. Pragmatic parallel randomized controlled trial.

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Article Synopsis
  • The World Health Organization wants to expand the roles of nursing, like nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists, to better understand their impact on healthcare.
  • A study reviewed many articles to find out how well these advanced nursing roles are researched around the world.
  • They found that advanced practice nurses often provide care that is as good or better than doctors in many areas, but there are still some mixed results in other aspects, and more research is being done on how AI can help in this field.
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Rationale: Home care allows patients with functional limitations to receive services at home and prevent health decline. Home care can reduce hospitalization and emergency department (ED) transfers. Integrating primary healthcare nurse practitioners (PHCNPs) in home care increases the supply of services, but little is known about their influence on patients' ability to remain at home.

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Aim: To identify indicators sensitive to the practice of primary healthcare nurse practitioners (PHCNPs).

Materials And Methods: A review of systematic reviews was undertaken to identify indicators sensitive to PHCNP practice. Published and grey literature was searched from January 1, 2010 to December 2, 2022.

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The retention of Canada's advanced practice nurses (APNs), including clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners, is a national health human resources issue. APNs are essential within the Canadian healthcare workforce for meeting patient and population health needs, often in underserved communities. A shortage of APNs will exacerbate barriers to access to care for patients across sectors, including primary, acute, long-term and transitional care settings.

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Introduction: In 2020, the World Health Organization called for the expansion and greater recognition of all nursing roles, including advanced practice nurses (APNs), to better meet patient care needs. As defined by the International Council of Nurses (ICN), the two most common APN roles include nurse practitioners (NPs) and clinical nurse specialists (CNSs). They help ensure care to communities as well as patients and families with acute, chronic or complex conditions.

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Aim: Nurse practitioners' added value is often mentioned in publications, but there is no consensus on what value is being added, what value is being added to, and in comparison with what can be considered to be an added value. A concept analysis was conducted to clarify the attributes, antecedents and meaning and better understand the Nurse practitioners' added value.

Design: Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis.

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Aims: A discussion of the challenges of recruiting participants from harder-to-reach populations for quantitative survey studies and potential avenues for tailored strategies to address these challenges.

Design: Discussion paper.

Data Sources: The search was conducted on August 2, 2021, in the CINAHL and PubMed databases, and in Google scholar.

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Introduction: Primary healthcare nurse practitioners (PHCNPs) practice in a wide range of clinical settings and with diverse patient populations. Several systematic reviews have examined outcomes of PHCNP roles. However, there is a lack of consistency in the definitions used for the PHCNP role across the reviews.

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Context: The person-centred approach (PCA) is a promising avenue for care improvement. However, health professionals in Burkina Faso (hereafter referred to as caregivers) seem unprepared for taking into consideration patients' preferences and values in the context of healthcare provision.

Objective: To understand the meaning attributed to PCA in the Burkina Faso context of care and to identify the challenges related to its adoption from the perspective of caregivers and women service users (hereafter referred to as patients).

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