Patients', clinicians' and developers' perspectives and experiences of artificial intelligence in cardiac healthcare: A qualitative study.

Objective: This study investigated perspectives and experiences of artificial intelligence (AI) developers, clinicians and patients about the use of AI-based software in cardiac healthcare.

Methods: A qualitative study took place at two hospitals in England that had trialled AI-based software use in stress echocardiography, a scan that uses ultrasound to assess heart function. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with: patients (9), clinicians (16) and AI software developers (5).

Young adults with kidney failure lived experiences of kidney replacement therapy decision-making.

Background: Young adults living with kidney failure make decisions to select a kidney replacement therapy choice in partnership with healthcare professionals. However, little is known about how they experience kidney replacement therapy treatment decision-making and the impact this has on their well-being.

Objectives: To explore young adults living with kidney failure experiences of treatment decision-making.

Person-centred oral hydration care for older people with dementia admitted to acute hospital wards: Empirical research qualitative.

Aims And Objectives: To conduct an in-depth exploration of oral hydration care provided to people living with dementia in acute hospital wards, using a person-centred care framework.

Background: Oral hydration care is an important, yet rarely explored aspect of fundamental care for people with dementia admitted to acute hospitals. Using person-centred care as a conceptual framework we investigated how oral hydration care is delivered for people living with dementia in acute hospital wards.

Implementation and perceived impact of the SWAN model of end-of-life and bereavement care: a realist evaluation.

Objectives: To evaluate the End-of-Life and Bereavement Care model (SWAN) from conception to current use.

Design: A realist evaluation was conducted to understand what works for whom and in what circumstances. The programme theory, derived from a scoping review, comprised: person and family centred care, institutional approaches and infrastructure.

End-of-life and immediate postdeath acute hospital interventions: scoping review.

Background: Hospital remains the most common place of death in the UK, but there are ongoing concerns about the quality of end-of-life care provision in this setting. Evaluation of interventions in the last days of life or after a bereavement is methodologically and ethically challenging.

Aim: The aim was to describe interventions at the very end of life and in the immediate bereavement period in acute hospitals, with a particular focus on how these are evaluated.

The Role and Development of Advanced Clinical Practice Within Allied Health Professions: A Mixed Method Study.

Objective: To investigate the profiles of advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) in the allied health professions (AHPs) and their skills, attributes, experiences and involvement in new models of care.

Methods: A 2 phase, cross sectional, mixed method survey of AHP ACPs across London was conducted in 2018-2019. Online questionnaires were completed by 127 AHP ACPs and then semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 AHP ACPs.

Preparing student nurses to be healthy role models: A qualitative study.

There are national and international expectations for nurses to be healthy role models. This study aimed to investigate student nurses', nurse educators' and registered nurses' experiences and perceptions about being healthy role models and to explore whether nurse education prepares students to become healthy role models. The study used an exploratory qualitative design and was based in the south of England.

Exchanging focus groups for individual interviews when collecting qualitative data.

Background: Focus group data are created through interactions between participants whereas data from individual interviews are created through a dialogue between the participant and researcher, whose questions set the agenda. Focus groups and individual interviews are therefore used for different reasons and produce different data. However, sometimes researchers exchange focus groups for individual interviews when collecting data.

Changing from 12-hr to 8-hr day shifts: A qualitative exploration of effects on organising nursing care and staffing.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate (a) How nursing care is organised on wards where nursing staff work different lengths of day shifts, and (b) How length of day shift affects the staffing of wards.

Background: Twelve-hour shifts have become increasingly common worldwide but there are concerns about impact on care quality and safety. Eight-hour shifts, and how day shift length affects how nurses organise their work, and staffing, have been little studied.

Development of tools to measure dignity for older people in acute hospitals.

Background: Dignity is a concept that applies to all patients. Older patients can be particularly vulnerable to experiencing a loss of dignity in hospital. Previous tools developed to measure dignity have been aimed at palliative and end-of-life care.

Enhancing Care Transitions for Older People through Interprofessional Simulation: A Mixed Method Evaluation.

Introduction: The educational needs of the health and social care workforce for delivering effective integrated care are important. This paper reports on the development, pilot and evaluation of an interprofessional simulation course, which aimed to support integrated care models for care transitions for older people from hospital to home.

Theory And Methods: The course development was informed by a literature review and a scoping exercise with the health and social care workforce.

Nurses as role models in health promotion: a concept analysis.

There are national and international expectations that nurses are healthy role models; however, there is a lack of clarity about what this concept means. This study used concept analysis methodology to provide theoretical clarity for the concept of role models in health promoting behaviour for registered nurses and students. The framework included analysis of literature and qualitative data from six focus groups and one interview.

How does the length of day shift affect patient care on older people's wards? A mixed method study.

Background: Internationally, studies have focused on whether shift length impacts on patient care. There are also ongoing concerns about patient care for older people in hospital. The study aim was to investigate how length of day shift affects patient care in older people's hospital wards.

An exploration of the 6Cs as a set of values for nursing practice.

In 2012, after several high-profile cases of poor quality care in England and concerns about a lack of compassion and a need to refocus on values, the Department of Health in England published a new strategy for nursing, midwifery and care staff: Compassion in Practice. The strategy included the 6Cs (care, compassion, courage, communication, competence and commitment) and in the follow-on framework, produced by NHS England in 2016, the 6Cs were included again. This article explains the background to the 6Cs and highlights the other values frameworks that nurses and midwives must work within too.

The views of older people and health professionals about dignity in acute hospital care.

Aims And Objectives: To report the findings from interviews conducted as part of a wider study on interventions to support dignified care in older people in acute hospital care. The data in this study present the interview data.

Background: Dignity is a complex concept.

Working in partnership with patients and carers.

Health policy and healthcare professional guidelines promote patient and carer involvement, which includes working in partnership with service users in all aspects of healthcare provision, research and education. This article explores the expectations for nurses to work in partnership with patients and carers, examines the definitions and theories of working in partnership and related concepts, as well as considering examples of partnership working in nursing practice.

Realising dignity in care home practice: an action research project.

Background: More than 400,000 older people reside in over 18,000 care homes in England. A recent social care survey found up to 50% of older people in care homes felt their dignity was undermined. Upholding the dignity of older people in care homes has implications for residents' experiences and the role of Registered Nurses.

Dementia Friends sessions for nursing students.

All health and social care students must learn about dementia in the curriculum. This article explains how Dementia Friends sessions, which aim to raise awareness about dementia, were delivered in the students' induction at one university. The objective was for all new students to understand some important facts about dementia, thus addressing any misconceptions at an early stage and establishing a foundation for further learning.