Table of contents

Commentaries

• Women’s health and midwifery: Lowering the thresholds of blood pressures in pregnancy, in line with the American College of Cardiology guidelines, has the potential to improve detection and outcomes for mother and baby (24 August, 2020)

  Laura Austin
• Women's health and midwifery: Web-based psychoeducation for first-time mothers more effective than home-based psychoeducation or routine care (29 May, 2020)

  Terri Kean
• Women's health and midwifery: Adequate maternal pre-conceptional folate status may reduce the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (17 March, 2020)

  Karen Best, Tim J Green
• Women's health and midwifery: Hypnosis-based interventions can be effective to improve women’s childbirth experience (17 June, 2020)

  Zeinab Hamzehgardeshi, Fateme Hamidi, Samaneh Nematzadeh
• Women's health and midwifery: Uptake of mammography screening is much lower among ethnic minority women (17 June, 2020)

  Salma Rehman, Parveen Ali
• Women’s health and midwifery: Fathers report experiencing negative feelings and psychological difficulties during the perinatal period (24 July, 2020)

  James Hill, Elizabeth Gomez, Andrew Clegg
• Nurse education: There is inconsistency in the effect of empathy training for healthcare professionals and students (19 June, 2020)

  Karen Palmer, James Hill, Andrew Clegg
• Nurse education: Cultural diversity needs to be integrated throughout undergraduate nursing curricula (11 August, 2020)

  Robin Walter
• Care of the older person: Nursing staff needs leadership support to enable shared learning for team capacity in providing palliative care for persons with dementia at home or in nursing home (12 August, 2020)

  Lillian Hung
• Care of the older person: Multifaceted falls prevention can help to reduce fall rates in high-risk and healthy community-dwelling older adults (3 August, 2020)

  Karen Palmer, James Hill, Andrew Clegg
• Care of the older person: Older people living in the community should be supported to maintain independence and social engagement (24 July, 2020)

  Ela Ury
• Care of the older person: Inclusion of people with dementia in research can help nurses understand how to deliver successful reminiscence interventions (29 May, 2020)

  Kellyn Lee
• Health promotion and public health: Modelling suggests that high human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination coverage in combination with high uptake screening can lead to cervical cancer elimination in most low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) by the end of the century (19 June, 2020)

  Saivash Moradi
• Adult nursing: Probiotics may be considered for children and adults with cystic fibrosis (13 May, 2020)

  James Hill, Chris Smith, Andrew Clegg
• Adult nursing: Using smart phone technology can aid in better bowel preparation and improve healthcare delivery (24 July, 2020)

  Pradeep Yarra, Mridula P Talari
• Adult nursing: Palliative care for dying patients could be enhanced by early goals-of-care discussion and strong collaboration between care providers (24 July, 2020)

  Lloyd Allen
• Adult nursing: Family and caregiver relationships influence patient self-management of heart failure (17 June, 2020)

  Kathleen Ahern Gould
• Adult nursing:

  Alpha₂ agonist dexmedetomidine may reduce duration of delirium in critically ill adults

  (17 June, 2020)

  James Hill, Chandbi Sange, Andrew Clegg
• Adult nursing: Baseline heart failure symptoms have a direct and predictive mediator effect on health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure (12 May, 2020)

  Rachel Kennedy
• Adult nursing: One in 10 hospitalised patients have a pressure injury worldwide (12 May, 2020)

  Karen Palmer, James Hill, Andrew Clegg
• Nursing issues: Patients with advanced heart failure benefit from tailored multidisciplinary palliative care interventions (11 February, 2020)

  Rachel Kennedy
• Nursing issues: Using advance care planning for end-of-life care in heart failure improves outcomes (30 March, 2020)

  Karol Harshaw-Ellis
• Nursing issues: Recovery processes can alleviate the effects of presenteeism and emotional exhaustion (29 April, 2020)

  Fermín Martínez-Zaragoza, Jordi Fernández-Castro
• Nursing issues: AFramework for identifying stigmatisation patterns in patients with mental health conditions in the acute healthcare setting (24 November, 2020) Free

  Ghaida Al-Sulami
• Nursing issues: Tick box cultures and systematised practices may prevent nurses fulfilling their roles as compassionate caregivers (11 August, 2020)

  Amanda J Lee
• Nursing issues: Patients with hospital-onset sepsis are less likely to receive sepsis bundle care than those with community-onset sepsis (2 June, 2020) Free

  Aneesh Basheer
• Nursing issues: Nurses consider family involvement as an important element of patient care (14 July, 2020)

  Magalie Alcindor, Myriam Cadet
• Nursing issues: Nurses adopt a range of coping strategies when caring for people at the end of life (24 July, 2020)

  Jane Nicol
• Nursing issues: High levels of temporary nurse staffing increase the hazard of death in acute care hospitals (12 August, 2020)

  Edris Hasanpoor, Elaheh Haghgoshayie
• Nursing issues: 9–10 months postbereavement, caregiver grief, quality of life and general health are comparable with people who are non-caregivers and not recently bereaved (18 March, 2020)

  Jane Nicol
• Nursing issues: Lack of education and co-ordination of care are main factors affecting palliative care provision by primary care practitioners (25 March, 2020)

  Veronika Williams
• Mental health: Effective and multilevel suicide prevention strategies must be developed based on high-quality evidence and public health policy reform (17 June, 2020)

  Akhtar Ebrahimi Ghassemi, Parastou Azadeh Ranjbar
• Mental health: Consider opportunities to build resilience with individuals who experience suicidal ideas and behaviours following stressful life events (29 May, 2020)

  Kirsty E Fishburn, Lolita Alfred
• Child health: Virtual reality reduces pain and fear during intravenous cannulation in the emergency department (16 April, 2020)

  Patricia Coulter
• Child health: Combined non-pharmacological interventions minimise pain during orogastric tube insertion in preterm neonates (12 August, 2020)

  Mariana Bueno