Literature Review on Spiritual Care in Nursing

This article is to review literature from 2011 to 2015 on spiritual care in nursing using CINAHL. In this article, the keywords “systematic review,” “spiritual care,” and “nursing” were used to search the CINAHL database. Initially a total of 19 articles were identified.

However, 11 papers were reviewed after excluding the inappropriate articles following six categories as the definition of spirituality, concept analysis of spiritual care, spiritual assessment, spiritual care on the clinical settings, ethical issues, and nursing education.

In conclusion and suggestions, spiritual care should assess from generic to specific aspects, and develop the comprehensive assessment steps for spiritual care in nursing.

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Social Representations of Nurses about their Profession

An integrative literature review to identify the social representations of nurses about their profession. The literature searching was between September and November 2015 through the following databases: SCOPUS, PUBMED, Cochrane Library, Science Direct, Web of Science, CINAHL and MEDLINE.

The final sample consisted of 05 articles. In the results, it was possible to identify characteristics of the publications and the social representations that nurses have of their profession.

Thus, it was possible to know the differences in the perceptions of nurses about the social representations in their profession.

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Cultural Competency Training and Education in the University-based Professional Training of Health Professionals: Characteristics, Quality and Outcomes of Evaluations

Cultural competence is a broad concept used to describe strategies designed to ensure that healthprofessionals are able to provide quality health care to diverse populations.

Cultural Competency

Over the last ten years or so, the term ‘cultural competence’ has become prominent in the health and medical education literature. According to Betancourt (2006), ‘physicians need a practical set of tools and skills that will enable them to provide quality care to patients everywhere, from anywhere, with whatever differences in background that may exist…’ Consistent with this imprimatur, most medical and nursing schools must provide some level of training in this area to meet accreditation requirements and therefore now include some level of cultural competency education and training in their curricula. For example, in Australia, cultural competency is endorsed by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) and medical courses must provide cultural competency training in their curricula to meet accreditation requirements. Read more>>>>>>> 

Cigarette Smoking among Out-of-School Adolescents in Sokoto Metropolis, North-West Nigeria

Cigarette smoking is a very wide spread activity and consumption of cigarette has today reached the level of a global epidemic. Every year 5,500billion cigarettes are manufactured and 1.1 billion people smoke cigarette worldwide.

Cigarette Smoking

In Nigeria, about 93 million sticks of cigarette are produced annually, with every one of these cigarette sticks being consumed. Cigarette smoking has been found to be associated with heart and chronic obstructive lung diseases. Lung and other cancers (bladder, pancreas, upper respiratory tract, oesophagus, stomach and leukemia) are increasingly being associated with cigarette smoking. Millions of people suffer illness and disability due to cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoking is associated with reduced life expectancy not only for active smokers but for passive smokers as well. Many factors have been put forward for adolescents’ engagements in smoking. These include normal developmental changes, psychological factors, and social environment. Under normal developmental changes, influence of peers, the need to conform and direct craving for cigarettes use have been mentioned. Read more>>>>>>

Qualitative Insights into Family Physicians' Perceptions of Academic Detailing for Rheumatoid Arthritis

The message of a paradigm shift in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to early, aggressive and sustained use of Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs and treating to target remission, has not yet reached all Family Physicians (FPs) in Canada.

A promising technique to optimize FP practice is Academic Detailing (AD) which involves visits by trained health care professionals to physicians in their offices, providing evidence-based information on a selected topic.

The objective of our study was to understand FPs’ perceptions about the feasibility, acceptability, and utility of AD to provide information about RA management.

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Volunteer Experiences at a Free Clinic in the United States: A Qualitative Study

Volunteers provide a wide variety of essential services in health care settings, from patient care to administrative assistance. Many volunteers in the healthcare field are skillsbased volunteers, providing skilled services at hospitals or clinics in an effort to improve the quality of life of the individuals in those setting.

Volunteer Experiences 

In the healthcare field, people tend to seek volunteer opportunities to gain work-related experiences. More hospitals than ever before are utilizing volunteers for “profession and support services, governance and fund-raising”. Free clinics provide an array of medical services at little or no cost to low-income, uninsured individuals in the United States (US) and often rely heavily on volunteers to provide services to vulnerable populations. However, free clinics often experience uncertainty in funding sources and need to consistently fundraise to keep services and programs active. While volunteers provide many services free clinics offer, there are few studies on volunteers’ experiences in this environment. Read more>>>>>>> 

The Role of Augmented Reality Telesurgery in Promoting Equity in Global Surgery

Surgery, as described by Dr. Kim, President of the World Bank, is an “indivisible, indispensable part ofhealthcare”, however it is estimated that five billion people do not have access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care.

Telesurgery

Of an estimated 312.9 million surgical procedures performed in 2012, only 6.3% were undertaken in the poorest nations, which comprise over a third of the global population. For too long the myth that surgery is the preserve of the rich has prevailed; however, a new age is dawning. The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery’s report Global Surgery 2030, appositely published in 2015, coinciding with a recommitment to universal health coverage (UHC) and the publication of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has finally brought surgery into the crosshairs of global health focus. Global Surgery 2030, which congregated what was known about global surgery and publicized a number of the Commission’s de novo publications (which significantly added to our understanding of surgery in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs)), is a call to arms for those wishing to reduce healthcare inequality. Read more>>>>>>

Delivering Care to Women who are Homeless: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experience of Health Care Providers in an Obstetrical Unit

The purpose of the study was to explore the experiences and perceptions of health care providers in an acute care setting delivering care to pregnant women who are experiencing homelessness.

In recent years, the number of women experiencing homelessness has significantly increased. In North America, the emerging homeless profile is that of a younger person and more often women.

Living in precarious housing situations increases one’s risk for serious health conditions. Women who are homeless often experience complex health issues but many intersecting barriers exist between homeless women and health care providers, which impacts the care provided.

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Fragility Syndrome in the Elderly, Integrating Knowledge about Diagnostic Methods

Aging is a fairly common phenomenon in reality that shapes our society; so for achieving comprehensive care for the elderly population, it is necessary that health careprofessionals are able to develop a more complete and holistic observation regarding some of this human being found in various process changes, whether physical, biological, social and psychological.

Fragility Syndrome

Currently in Brazil there are 20 million people aged over 60 years, equivalent to 10% of the population, and according to projections by the World Health Organization (WHO), between 1950 to 2025, there will be an increase of five times the total population and fifteen times the elderly population, and Brazil in 2025 will present about 32 million people aged over 60 years. This stage of life can be understood as a natural process, in which there is a progressive decrease of the functional reserve of the individual, which is called senescence. Under normal conditions, this process develops without problems.