Table of contents

Commentaries

Adult nursing

• Adult nursing: Paying attention to cultural context matters in advance care planning and palliative care (5 December, 2019)

  Sarah Russell
• Adult nursing: Multicomponent exercise programmes among very elderly hospitalised patients can be safe and effective in reversing functional decline (19 October, 2019)

  Nicole Zhang

Mental health

• Mental health: The online treatment tool, ‘Mood Mechanic’, is a viable option for the treatment of anxiety and depression in young adults who do not undertake face-to-face treatment (25 October, 2019)

  Gillian Colville
• Mental health: Cognitive behavioural therapy is not effective for depression in advanced cancer but could help in anxiety or other psychological symptoms (19 October, 2019)

  Marie-Ève Caron, Dave Bergeron

Women's health and midwifery

• Women's health and midwifery: There are both positive and negative implications to the use of mobile phones in the birth suite (25 September, 2019)

  Susan James
• Women's health and midwifery: Call for culturally sensitive comprehensive cancer control programmes in the Middle Eastern countries (28 September, 2019)

  Iman Al Hashmi, Vidya Seshan

Care of the older person

• Care of the older person: ‘Use it or lose it’: the relationship between the frequency of word puzzle use and cognitive function (7 November, 2019)

  Karen Harrison-Dening
• Care of the older person: Comorbidity is a risk factor for poor quality of life in people with dementia (15 November, 2019)

  Nicole Zhang
• Care of the older person: Place of death preference among people with dementia: an important conversation (15 October, 2019)

  Jacqueline Reed

Learning disabilities

• Learning disabilities: One size does not fit all: mental health services access for people with intellectual/learning disability requires individualised planning and education/training programmes for health and social care providers (26 November, 2019)

  Anita Maestri-Banks

Nursing issues

• Nursing issues: Timely psychological interventions can ameliorate symptoms of prolonged grief (23 October, 2019)

  Sally Chan
• Nursing issues: Enhancing the role of nursing in primary care facilitates task sharing and addresses human resource shortages to achieve optimal population health outcomes (13 September, 2019)

  Lauren Scott, Courtney May
• Nursing issues: Higher prevalence of pressure ulcers in people receiving palliative care is not necessarily an indicator of poor care (30 October, 2019)

  Marie Ernsth Bravell
• Nursing issues: More research is needed to understand how to provide optimal palliative dementia care to people living at home (18 September, 2019)

  Nuriye Kupeli
• Nursing issues: Cigarette smoking increases persistent pain intensity and interference, impairs function and sleep (8 November, 2019)

  Felicia Cox
• Nursing issues: Walking may ameliorate fatigue in women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer (4 November, 2019)

  Jasmine Yee, Haryana Dhillon
• Nursing issues: Nurses should be empowered to be proactively involved in family decision meetings on intensive care unit patient care decisions (11 September, 2019) Free

  Mohammad Khan

Nurse education

• Nurse education: The problem of late dropout from nursing education is a serious one and educational simulation can be used as a solution (25 October, 2019)

  Jiyeon Kang
• Nurse education: Nurse educators should use a range of approaches to teach students compassion (23 October, 2019)

  Beth Mahler
• Nurse education: Nurturing cultural awareness needs to be explicitly addressed in undergraduate nurse curricula (4 November, 2019)

  Kathleen Markey

Community and primary care nursing

• Community and primary care nursing: Mindfulness training for primary care patients promotes chronic disease self-management behaviours (25 October, 2019)

  David J Kearney

Health promotion and public health

• Health promotion and public health: Oral health should be considered when working with adults with intellectual disabilities, and larger, higher-quality studies in this area are needed (23 October, 2019)

  James Hill, Alison Doherty, Jayne Firestone
• Health promotion and public health: Are E-cigarettes more effective in supporting smoking cessation than nicotine-replacement therapy? (19 October, 2019) Free

  Myriam Cadet