Table of contents

Commentaries

• Nurse education: Nurse educators must demonstrate care, competence and integrity to enhance students’ trust in them (20 June, 2019)

  David Barrett, Myles Harris
• Nurse education: Professional socialisation processes help facilitate the transition from student to qualified nurse (25 July, 2019) Free

  Úna Kerin
• Adult nursing: Increased knowledge of oral anticoagulants and treatment satisfaction leads to better adherence to oral anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation (21 June, 2019)

  Manuel Schwanda, Rita Gruber
• Adult nursing: Best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter replacement (29 May, 2019)

  Paige Hacker Bravo
• Adult nursing: Living a life, not an illness: the process of living well with advanced cancer (10 July, 2019)

  Joanna Harrison, Joan Devereux
• Adult nursing: Undiagnosed delirium is common and difficult to predict among hospitalised patients (11 July, 2019)

  Gary Mitchell
• Adult nursing: ITU patients with delirium did not benefit from electronic and pharmacist support encouraging the deprescribing of benzodiazepines and anticholinergics (8 July, 2019)

  Juliet Donaghy
• Mental health: The usage of coercive measures in psychiatric units and its potential counter-therapeutic impact on outcome (11 July, 2019)

  Akhtar Ebrahimi Ghassemi
• Women’s health and midwifery: Learning to love: shunning conventional stereotyping of giving birth to a baby with an abnormality (13 June, 2019)

  Tracey Cooper
• Women’s health and midwifery: Behavioural and pharmacological interventions are more effective than no treatment for urinary incontinence outcomes in women (11 July, 2019)

  Nicole Zhang
• Care of the older person: Hospital admission may increase the risk of potentially inappropriate prescribing among older primary care patients (11 July, 2019)

  Manuel Schwanda, BSc, MScN, RN, Rita Gruber, BScN, MSc, RN
• Care of the older person: Quality of life among older adults with Alzheimer’s disease in residential care: who knows best? (27 June, 2019)

  Terri Kean
• Nursing issues: Access to specialist palliative care to manage pain in people dying at home: give them a VOICE (10 July, 2019)

  Karen Harrison-Dening
• Nursing issues:

  Intensive decontamination of emergency department surfaces is required to prevent spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from actively colonised patients

  (11 July, 2019)

  Mohammad Al Mamun, Tanvir C Turin
• Nursing issues: Study finds medication errors common after Intensive Care Unit transfer (23 July, 2019)

  Paige Hacker Bravo
• Nursing issues: Incidence and prevalence of medical device-related pressure ulcers in children and adults (8 June, 2019)

  Jiale Hu
• Health promotion and public health: Increased intake of omega-3 during pregnancy can reduce preterm births (10 July, 2019)

  Kate Frazer
• Health promotion and public health: Fragmented health and well-being services as contributing barriers in overcoming the unmet needs of a population with special needs (11 July, 2019)

  Nashit Chowdhury, Tanvir C Turin