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Advances in Nursing and Medical Education

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 4824

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Dr. Jolanta Lewko

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Department of Primary Health Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University in Bialystok, 15-054 Bialystok, Poland
Interests: diabetes complications; health education

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Advances in nursing are a response to the challenges of changing healthcare systems, the demographic situation of society, and the further development of the role of a nurse. Nursing is an independent profession, and a nurse's professional competences are constantly being expanded.

The main purpose of this Special Issue is to present scientific evidence of advances in nursing care and medical education in the context of healthcare. We desire papers exploring advanced nursing care, conceptual foundations for the development of education programs in this field, and examples of innovative teaching strategies as well as methods aiming at the development of nurses’ competences to provide an effective quality of nursing care. All levels of nursing education and all areas of healthcare systems may be considered.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) invites papers addressing these topics, including those with new approaches to developing interventions that target the enhancement of healthcare in patients with multiple comorbidities.

Research may be quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, or reviews that meet established review standards, and the data may be from primary or secondary sources.

Dr. Jolanta Lewko
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • health education
  • advanced nursing care
  • quality of nursing care
  • health outcomes
  • nursing interventions
  • nurses’ competences
  • nursing students’ competences
  • nursing care management

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A Comparison of an Australian First Nations Primary Healthcare Data Specification with Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations
by Boyd Potts, Christopher M. Doran and Stephen J. Begg
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(9), 1192; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091192 - 9 Sep 2024
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Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations (PPH) is a widely used indicator of the effectiveness of non-hospital care. Specified using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding, PPH comprises a suite of health conditions that could have potentially been prevented with appropriate care. The most recent [...] Read more.
Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations (PPH) is a widely used indicator of the effectiveness of non-hospital care. Specified using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding, PPH comprises a suite of health conditions that could have potentially been prevented with appropriate care. The most recent edition of the National Guide to a Preventative Health Assessment for First Nations People documents the health conditions of interest to providers of primary care, many of which are not represented in PPH. Given the National Guide has been developed specifically with First Nations in mind, the aim of this research is twofold. The first aim is to formally posit the question of whether a summative measure of hospitalisations aligned diagnostically to the National Guide has value either as an alternative or complement to PPH in the context of First Nations primary health information. The second aim is to develop and present a prototype ICD-10 data specification for such a measure, referred to as the First Nations primary healthcare (FNPHC) data specification, and examine the age-standardised hospitalisation rates for FNPHC and PPH for correlations and/or differences. Age-standardised hospitalisation rates from 2016–17 to 2019–20 using both classifications were examined to assess the usefulness and relevance of summative measures of hospitalisations for informing primary care. Rates of FNPHC for principal diagnoses were between 1.5 and 2.5 times higher than those of PPH and approximately between 6 and 12 times higher for additional diagnoses. There was a strong correlation with PPH when rates were compared across all observations: jurisdictions with higher rates of PPH tended to have higher rates of hospitalisations according to the custom specification. Findings support its application as a summary measure for First Nations primary care providers. Given the policy landscape in Australia that aims to close the gap, it is imperative that measures of primary health take advantage of the concepts and application of First Nations data sovereignty and governance. The validity and cultural appropriateness of the First Nations primary health data specification needs to be further researched. Full article
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Nursing Students’ Health Literacy and Strategies to Foster Patients’ Health Literacy
by Veronika Anselmann, Simone Halder and Sophie Sauer
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(8), 1048; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21081048 - 9 Aug 2024
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Health literacy can be defined as an individual’s competence to use knowledge and information to maintain and improve health. Research has shown the crucial importance of health literacy in everyday life. Nurses play an important role in fostering patients’ health literacy. But there [...] Read more.
Health literacy can be defined as an individual’s competence to use knowledge and information to maintain and improve health. Research has shown the crucial importance of health literacy in everyday life. Nurses play an important role in fostering patients’ health literacy. But there is a lack in research on nurses’ health literacy and how it influences their work. Therefore, this study aims to determine nursing students’ health literacy and find out whether this group assessed that there was a change in their health literacy before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, this study aims to find out whether there is a relation between nursing students’ assessments of their health literacy and their assessments of whether and how they use strategies to foster their patients’ health literary in everyday work. We conducted a longitudinal study with two points of measurement, before the COVID-19 pandemic (N = 112) and after (N = 304). Nursing students filled out an online questionnaire using validated scales. To analyze the data, we used descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and Welch’s t-test. The results show that before the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursing students assessed their health literacy as quite high, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, they found it difficult to access (t = 17.881; p < 0.001; Cohen’s d = 0.46), understand (t = 16.404; p < 0.001; Cohen’s d = 0.56), appraise (t = 15.429; p < 0.00; Cohen’s d = 0.47), and apply health-related information (t = 13.761; p < 0.001; Cohen’s d = 0.54). Implications of our study concern nurses’ vocational education and training in which nurses must learn about health literacy and strategies to foster their patients’ health literacy. Full article
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Association between the Quantity of Nurse–Doctor Interprofessional Collaboration and in-Patient Mortality: A Systematic Review
by Sandesh Pantha, Martin Jones, Nompilo Moyo, Bijaya Pokhrel, Diana Kushemererwa and Richard Gray
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(4), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21040494 - 17 Apr 2024
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The level of nurse–doctor interprofessional collaboration may influence patient outcomes, including mortality. To date, no systematic reviews have investigated the association between the quantity of nurse–doctor interprofessional collaboration and inpatient mortality. A systematic review was conducted. We included studies that measured the quantity [...] Read more.
The level of nurse–doctor interprofessional collaboration may influence patient outcomes, including mortality. To date, no systematic reviews have investigated the association between the quantity of nurse–doctor interprofessional collaboration and inpatient mortality. A systematic review was conducted. We included studies that measured the quantity of nurse–doctor interprofessional collaboration and in-patient mortality. Five databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Register) were searched. Two researchers undertook the title, abstract, and full-text screening. The risk of bias was determined using the Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) critical appraisal tool. Six reports from three observational studies met the inclusion criteria. Participants included 1.32 million patients, 29,591 nurses, and 191 doctors. The included studies had a high risk of bias. Of the three studies, one reported a significant association and one found no association between the quantity of nurse–doctor collaboration and mortality. The third study reported on the quantity of nurse–doctor collaboration but did not report the test of this association. We found no high-quality evidence to suggest the amount of nurse–doctor interprofessional collaboration was associated with mortality in medical and surgical inpatients. There is a need for further high-quality research to evaluate the association between the amount of nurse–doctor collaboration and patient outcomes. Full article
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