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Commentaries

• Nursing issues: Medication errors may be reduced by double-checking method (28 April, 2018)

  Sarah Berdot, Brigitte Sabatier
• Nursing issues: Likelihood of nursing care being missed is influenced by several work-based factors (5 June, 2018) Free

  Andres Azuero
• Nursing issues: Higher vitamin D intake could improve sleep and cognitive outcomes in older adults with heart failure (16 June, 2018)

  Junxin Li
• Nurse education: Interventions for coping with bullying need further investigation and should be built into nursing curricula (7 May, 2018) Free

  Jiyeon Kang
• Mental health: Risk of suicidal thinking in caregivers of people with dementia should be assessed and monitored by health professionals (5 June, 2018)

  Ben Parkinson
• Care of the older person: Prehospital physical function and strength can influence clinical outcomes of critically ill older adults (15 June, 2018)

  David Mcwilliams
• Care of the older person: Exercise interventions reduce the risk of injurious falls among older adults (2 June, 2018)

  Anne-Marie Hill
• Care of the older person: Inpatient mobilisation programmes targeting older patients are feasible, but further research is required to examine impact on patient outcomes (5 June, 2018)

  Beverly Waller Dabney
• Women’s health & midwifery: Study suggests that pre-existing maternal epilepsy increases the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes (16 March, 2018)

  Ju-Lee Oei
• Women’s health & midwifery: There remains a need for greater awareness and further research on fathers’ stress in the perinatal period (7 May, 2018)

  Liana S Leach
• Adult nursing: Insufficient evidence to support ultrasonography as a method to rule out an improperly positioned nasogastric tube (28 April, 2018)

  Norma A Metheny
• Adult nursing: Extended visitation policy may lower risk for delirium in the intensive care unit (28 March, 2018)

  Manuel Schwanda, Rita Gruber
• Adult nursing: Stroke self-management programmes could improve patient self-efficacy and satisfaction with self-management behaviours (2 June, 2018)

  Lisa Kidd
• Adult nursing: Nurses should inform patients of the possibility of awareness during bronchoscopy performed with procedural sedation (15 June, 2018)

  Aaron Conway
• Adult nursing: Adolescents and young adults are a unique patient group whose diagnosis of cancer presents challenges that require in-depth, individual assessment (15 June, 2018)

  Nicola Pettitt
• Adult nursing: Nurses and physicians bring different perspectives to end-of-life decisions in intensive care units (7 May, 2018)

  Natalie S McAndrew
• Learning disabilities: Adults with intellectual disabilities experience shame that leads to psychological distress and mental illness that requires assessment and treatment (15 May, 2018)

  Michael Brown, Lynne Marsh