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Predatory journals and the pollution of academic publishing (2019)
Journal Article
Watson, R. (2019). Predatory journals and the pollution of academic publishing. Journal of nursing management, 27(2), 223-224. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12739

I am writing this in China and, looking from my hotel room, I can barely see beyond the buildings on the other side of the street. It's pollution; it obscures vision, and exposure has. adverse effects on health. I think 'pollution' is an excellent me... Read More about Predatory journals and the pollution of academic publishing.

An exploration of factors related to quality of life in Indonesian care workers in home-based care settings (2019)
Journal Article
Lo, S. F., Chang, L. J., Hayter, M., & O Yang, A. C. (2019). An exploration of factors related to quality of life in Indonesian care workers in home-based care settings. The journal of nursing research : JNR, 27(5), https://doi.org/10.1097/JNR.0000000000000314

Background Indonesians constituted 79% of foreign care workers for long-term care in Taiwan in 2015. Therefore, it is crucial to explore the effect of work stress and quality of life (QoL) on this population.

Purpose This study aims to explore str... Read More about An exploration of factors related to quality of life in Indonesian care workers in home-based care settings.

Are mentors failing to fail underperforming student nurses? An integrative literature review (2019)
Journal Article
Wray, J., Kennedy, M., & North, H. (2019). Are mentors failing to fail underperforming student nurses? An integrative literature review. British Journal of Nursing, 28(4), 250-255. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2019.28.4.250

Aim: this review aimed to identify and review primary research to address the question: ‘Is there evidence that mentors are failing to fail underperforming student nurses?’ Design: this was an integrative literature review. Methods: online databases... Read More about Are mentors failing to fail underperforming student nurses? An integrative literature review.

Patient-reported symptoms of ‘calm’, ‘irritated’ and ‘infected’ skeletal external fixator pin site wound states; a cross-sectional study (2019)
Journal Article
Santy-Tomlinson, J., Jomeen, J., & Ersser, S. J. (2019). Patient-reported symptoms of ‘calm’, ‘irritated’ and ‘infected’ skeletal external fixator pin site wound states; a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing, 33, 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijotn.2019.01.002

Objective
To explore the frequency, severity and variances in patient-reported symptoms of calm, irritated and infected skeletal pin sites.

Methods
A cross-sectional within-subjects repeated-measures study was conducted, employing a self-report ques... Read More about Patient-reported symptoms of ‘calm’, ‘irritated’ and ‘infected’ skeletal external fixator pin site wound states; a cross-sectional study.

Self-feeding dependence incidence and predictors among nursing home residents: Findings from a 5 year retrospective regional study (2019)
Journal Article
Palese, A., Grassetti, L., Zuttion, R., Ferrario, B., Ponta, S., Achil, I., Hayter, M., & Watson, R. (2019). Self-feeding dependence incidence and predictors among nursing home residents: Findings from a 5 year retrospective regional study. Nursing and Health Sciences, 21(3), 297-306. https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12596

The aim of this regionally‐based, retrospective study was to describe the incidence of self‐feeding dependence and predictors among elderly patients admitted from 2008 to 2013 to 105 Italian nursing homes. Data reported in a regional database collect... Read More about Self-feeding dependence incidence and predictors among nursing home residents: Findings from a 5 year retrospective regional study.

International study reveals aged patients with dementia frequently receive 'inappropriate prescriptions' (2019)
Journal Article
Lee, A. J. (2019). International study reveals aged patients with dementia frequently receive 'inappropriate prescriptions'. Evidence-Based Nursing, 22(2), 50. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2018-102906

Commentary on: Renom-Guiteras A, Thürmann PA, Miralles R, et al. Potentially inappropriate medication among people with dementia in eight European countries. Age Ageing 2018;47:68–74.

Push and pull factors of nurses' intention to leave (2019)
Journal Article
Sasso, L., Bagnasco, A., Catania, G., Zanini, M., Aleo, G., Watson, R., & the RN4CAST@IT Working Group. (2019). Push and pull factors of nurses' intention to leave. Journal of nursing management, 27(5), 946-954. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12745

Aim
Expand knowledge about the predictive factors of nurses’ intention to leave their job, and consequently to turnover.
Background
Nurse turnover is costly and negatively influences quality of care. Understanding the association between intention to... Read More about Push and pull factors of nurses' intention to leave.

Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia (2019)
Journal Article
Rehman, S., Likupe, G., & Watson, R. (2019). Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia. Wikijournal of Medicine, 6(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.15347/wjm/2019.006

Aim: To evaluate the evidence published in systematic reviews on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at alleviating mealtime difficulties in older people with dementia. Background: Older people with dementia gradually lose their self-care abilit... Read More about Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia.

Knowledge regarding risk factors and preventive measures of varicose vein among staff nurses at Dhiraj General Hospital, Waghodia, Vadodara (2018)
Journal Article
Ravindra, H., Thakor, A., & Christian, K. (2018). Knowledge regarding risk factors and preventive measures of varicose vein among staff nurses at Dhiraj General Hospital, Waghodia, Vadodara. Indian Journal of Applied Research, 8(6), 68-70

BACKGROUND: As the heart beats, it pumps blood through a system of blood vessels called the circulatory system. The vessels are the elastic tubes that carry blood to every part of the body. Arteries carry blood away from the heart while veins return... Read More about Knowledge regarding risk factors and preventive measures of varicose vein among staff nurses at Dhiraj General Hospital, Waghodia, Vadodara.

Negative prompts aimed at maintaining eating independence in nursing home residents: purposes and implications -A critical analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Palese, A., Gonella, S., Kasa, T., Caruzzo, D., Hayter, M., & Watson, R. (2019). Negative prompts aimed at maintaining eating independence in nursing home residents: purposes and implications -A critical analysis. Nursing Ethics, 26(7-8), 2158-2171. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733018819124

Background:
Psychological abuse of older people is difficult to recognise; specifically, nursing home residents have been documented to be at higher risk of psychological abuse during daily care, such as during feeding. Healthcare professionals adop... Read More about Negative prompts aimed at maintaining eating independence in nursing home residents: purposes and implications -A critical analysis.

The significance of facial shaving as fundamental nursing care (2018)
Journal Article
Ette, L., & Gretton, M. (2019). The significance of facial shaving as fundamental nursing care. Nursing Times, 115(1), 40-42

Being clean shave is often important for male hospital patients, who may feel more dignified, more 'themselves' and better cared for if they can shave-or if someone helps them with shaving.This article explores male facial shaving as an aspect of fun... Read More about The significance of facial shaving as fundamental nursing care.

Quality of stepped-wedge trial reporting can be reliably assessed using an updated CONSORT: crowd-sourcing systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Hemming, K., Carroll, K., Thompson, J., Forbes, A., Taljaard, M., Dutton, S. J., Madurasinghe, V., Morgan, K., Stuart, B., Fielding, K., Cornelius, V., Turner, E. L., Hooper, R., Giraudeau, B., Seed, P. T., Nickless, A., Grayling, M., Prague, M., Kerry, S., Bell, L., …Franklin, B. D. (2019). Quality of stepped-wedge trial reporting can be reliably assessed using an updated CONSORT: crowd-sourcing systematic review. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 107, 77-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.11.017

Objectives: The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials extension for the stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial (SW-CRT) is a recently published reporting guideline for SW-CRTs. We assess the quality of reporting of a recent sample of SW-CRTs. St... Read More about Quality of stepped-wedge trial reporting can be reliably assessed using an updated CONSORT: crowd-sourcing systematic review.

Interventions maintaining eating Independence in nursing home residents: a multicentre qualitative study (2018)
Journal Article
Palese, A., Bressan, V., Kasa, T., Meri, M., Hayter, M., & Watson, R. (2018). Interventions maintaining eating Independence in nursing home residents: a multicentre qualitative study. BMC Geriatrics, 18(1), 292. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0985-y

BACKGROUND: Despite 32 years of research and 13 reviews published in the field, no intervention can be considered a gold standard for maintaining eating performance among residents with dementia. The study aim was to highlight the interventions deriv... Read More about Interventions maintaining eating Independence in nursing home residents: a multicentre qualitative study.

Barriers to hand hygiene practices among health care workers in sub-Saharan African countries: A narrative review (2018)
Journal Article
Ataiyero, Y., Dyson, J., & Graham, M. (2019). Barriers to hand hygiene practices among health care workers in sub-Saharan African countries: A narrative review. American Journal of Infection Control, 47(5), 565-573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.09.014

Background: Hand hygiene (HH) is the primary measure in the prevention of healthcare associated infections though from published studies,compliance of healthcare workers to HH guidelines is low. There is currently no review on HH compliance rate in d... Read More about Barriers to hand hygiene practices among health care workers in sub-Saharan African countries: A narrative review.

Experiential learning of HIV self-test among student nurses: A qualitative study (2018)
Journal Article
Chiou, P. Y., Chien, C. Y., Lee, A., Hayter, M., & Ko, N. Y. (2019). Experiential learning of HIV self-test among student nurses: A qualitative study. Nurse education today, 79, 111-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.11.012

Background: There is increasing demand for HIV self-tests, and nurses play an important role in counselling and assisting in the testing process. Traditional lecture-based nursing education has not typically focused on self-testing procedures, and th... Read More about Experiential learning of HIV self-test among student nurses: A qualitative study.

Nursing schools: dumbing down or reaching up? (2018)
Journal Article
Darbyshire, P., Thompson, D. R., & Watson, R. (2019). Nursing schools: dumbing down or reaching up?. Journal of nursing management, 27(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12730

Universities and their nursing faculties are changing dramatically. Rather than serving as bastions of knowledge generation, professional innovation, curation and dissemination of knowledge, many have become corporatised monoliths intent on a pervers... Read More about Nursing schools: dumbing down or reaching up?.

Evaluating falls prevention strategies in community settings: marginal reduction on rate of falls with individual risk-based multifactorial interventions compared to ‘usual care’ (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, A., & Hayter, M. (2019). Evaluating falls prevention strategies in community settings: marginal reduction on rate of falls with individual risk-based multifactorial interventions compared to ‘usual care’. Evidence-Based Nursing, 22(1), 20-20. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2018-102995