bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Using the ‘six thinking hats’ model of learning in a surgical nursing class: sharing the experience and student opinions
Authors: Karadağ Mevlüde , Saritaş Serdar , Erginer Ergin 
Published: June 2024

Objective: The purpose of the study was to test the use of a creative teaching method in developing nursing students’ critical thinking skills The ‘six thinking hats’ model, which was developed by Edward DeBono in 1994, is a teaching method for developing creative thinking by presenting and systematising thoughts and suggestions within a specific structure. The six different hats (white, yellow, black, red, green, and blue) symbolise the thinking system. In this method the students are expected to change their perspectives symbolised by a colour at regular intervals.
Setting: This study was conducted during the 2006‑2007 academic year at Gaziosmanpaşa University.
Subjects: The research population was comprised of 41 students who were registered for the surgical nursing class in the Department of Nursing at Tokat School for Health Sciences. Purposive sampling was not undertaken for the study with the entire population of students targeted.
Method: The ‘six thinking hats’ model was used in theoretical lessons about breast cancer, spinal cord trauma and transplantation nursing in a surgical nursing class. At the end of the theoretic section of the class, the students’ opinions were sought about the ‘sixthinking hats’ model of learning. Data were analysed with percentage and Chi square test reporting of the responses.
Findings: The majority of the students stated that this method facilitated their empathising with the patient; sharing different ideas and opinions; considering the patient holistically; generating creative ideas; looking at an event from positive and negativeaspects; and developing their system of thinking. They recommended that this class be taught using this method.
Conclusion: This study is important because it tested the use of a creative teaching method that is useful for the development of nursing students’ critical thinking skills. The study is also important because there are a limited number of references in the literature about the use of the ‘six thinking hats’ model of learning in university education, and only one in nursing education, and having this type of study in the nursing literature adds to the improvement and enrichment of nursing education.
Surviving survival: nursing care at Bergen‑Belsen 1945
Authors: Ben-Sefer Ellen 
Published: June 2024

Objective: The purpose of this paper was to explore the previously little known contribution of nursing care at the liberation of Bergen‑Belsen concentration camp.
Setting: Bergen‑Belsen concentration camp.
Primary argument: The liberation of Bergen‑Belsen concentration camp became a widespread symbol of suffering when it was liberated by British forces. Films of the liberation and the appalling condition of the survivors were widely disseminated in the western Allied countries. Despite the earlier liberation of Majdanek and Auschwitz in Poland, Bergen‑Belsen became fixed in the minds of the British public as an icon of the holocaust. Due to the catastrophic conditions found in the camp, doctors, nurses, medical students and aid organisations were quickly drafted into the relief effort. The work of doctors has been well publicised, however little has appeared that details the contribution of nurses. The diaries and letters of Muriel Knox Dougherty, the Australian nurse who became chief matron of the camp’s nursing services have been published only in recent years. No other material has been made public; consequently the work of the nurses has yet to be fully detailed.
Conclusion: This paper presents the reflections and recollections of several nurses who served in the liberation nursing services. Primary sources for this paper include relevant literature, archival material including correspondence, diaries, testimonies and personal correspondence. The conclusion formed on the basis of these documents is that the work of the nurses during the liberation period was life‑saving for their patients and life‑changing for the nurses.
The relevance of psychosocial indicators in community palliative care: A pilot study
Authors: Oliver Mary 
Published: June 2024

Objective: The objective is to discuss a framework in psychosocial care in community palliative care and the outcomes of a pilot study. This study adds to the existing body of knowledge in palliative care especially in psychosocial aspects of community care.
Design and Setting: Prior to pilot testing the psychosocial indicators for use in community palliative care, a twelve item framework in psychosocial care was developed and validated using the Delphi technique and group consensus from ten experts in community palliative care. The study setting was the community palliative care services consisting of multidisciplinary health professionals.
Subjects: A purposive sample of six participants comprising of palliative care nurses and allied health professionals participated in the pilot study. Using the psychosocial framework in community palliative care participant views on what constitutes psychosocial care in community palliative care was determined. Interview transcripts were the data sources that informed the pilot study.
Main outcome measure: The main outcome was the pilot study results validating the psychosocial framework consisting of 12 indicators in community palliative care. The study findings demonstrate the appropriateness of psychosocial indicators discerning patient and caregiver needs in community palliative care. All participants in the pilot study independently confirmed evidence of the 12 psychosocial indicators in their practice.
Conclusion: The pilot study shows that by incorporating psychosocial care in community palliative care improves decision making in the terminally ill. The implication for practice is that psychosocial aspects of palliative care can indicate patient’s care needs leading to better satisfaction.
Foot care within the Jordanian healthcare system: a qualitative inquiry of patient’s perspectives
Authors: Abu‑Qamar Ma’en , Wilson Anne 
Published: June 2024

Objective: The objective of this study was to elaborate patient’s views of diabetic foot care within the Jordanian healthcare system.
Design: A qualitative approach with unstructured face‑to‑face interviews was used in this study.
Setting: Participants were recruited from six hospitals throughout Jordan plus a university affiliated healthcare centre.
Subjects: Seven patients with diabetes and suffering from a foot burn injury were recruited from a university affiliated hospital plus public hospitals located in Amman, the capital of Jordan. In addition to Amman, the facilities were located in two main Jordanian governorates; Irbid and Al‑Karak.
Results: Our findings are consistent with what is known about barriers to effective diabetic foot care. Participants were not practising preventive foot care behaviours due to personal beliefs about healthcare and the structure and culture of healthcare practice in Jordan. Specifically, participants of this study believed that the presence of diabetes does not necessitate the need for regular foot examination when there are no active ulcers on their feet. Additionally, providers of healthcare were not performing foot examination as part of regular diabetes care.
Conclusions: Efforts should be made to promote preventive care practices within the context of the Jordanian healthcare system. By so doing, the incidence and severity of diabetic foot ulceration and other consequences may be reduced.
Assessment and management of acute pain in older people: barriers and facilitators to nursing practice
Authors: Fitzgerald Sally , Tripp Henrietta , Halksworth-Smith Gillian 
Published: June 2024

Objective: The aim of this review was to examine the pain management practices of nurses, and identify barriers and facilitators to the assessment and management of pain for older people, within the acute hospital setting.
Design: Integrative literature review.
Setting: Acute care for inpatients in a tertiary hospital.
Subjects: Older people defined as 65 years of age or over.
Primary argument: A nurse’s individual practice was found to significantly influence how pain is managed in the older patient; this encompassed nurses attitudes, communication, documentation, and the use of pharmacological and nonpharmacological strategies. Nurses’ ability to provide optimal care was found to be influenced by organisational factors such as workforce planning and the workplace environment. Provision of knowledge and skills to both nurses and older patients through education was found to facilitate better pain management; whilst a model of care whereby the nurse has authority and the patient is perceived as a passive recipient was found to be a hindrance to optimal pain management outcomes.
Conclusion: Findings indicate that nurses need to improve communication with older patients, increase their knowledge of pain assessment and management principles in regards to this population, and have a greater awareness of human and social influences. Whilst organisational factors can impact upon nursing care, pain management needs to be highly prioritised and promoted as essential. Targeted education is required to overcome many of the identified barriers, and is a key recommendation from this review.
Rethinking student night duty placements - a replication study
Authors: Zielinksi Valerie , Beardmore Denielle 
Published: June 2024

Objective: This paper reports findings as a replicated qualitative study (McKenna and French 2010) that investigated experiences and value of night duty; with the variance that the students’ were undergraduate enrolled nurse students as opposed to undergraduate registered nurse student nurses’.
Design: Enrolled nurse students’ from one private Registered Training Organisation (RTO) were invited to participate in a two week night shift placement as their preparation for practice in an acute care facility. A qualitative approach involving focus groups with students and ward nurses, prior to, and following that clinical placements was used. In addition, individual interviews were conducted with other key stakeholders from the RTO and Health Care Service.
Setting: The study was conducted in one regional public hospital in Victoria, Australia. A clinical teacher, who was also the clinical coordinator, was employed by the RTO to provide student supervision during the placement.
Subjects: Thirty eight enrolled nursing students, six permanent night staff from the hospital and four key personnel representing the education provider and hospital perspectives consented to participate.
Main Outcome Measures: All transcripts were thematically analysed together with the context of placement value and experiences.
Results: Four themes emerged from pre-placement interviews: coping with travelling, nature of night shift, preparing to be a graduate, and change and adjustment. Post placement interviews revealed four themes; time to learn and time to teach, adjusting, continuity and preparing to be a graduate and night duty as a recommended clinical placement for the enrolled nurse student.
Conclusions: This replication study has added evidentiary support that night duty is a highly appropriate model of professional clinical practice for the enrolled nurse. Within a collaborative model it has enabled the student enrolled nurse to consolidate theory to practice, exposure to reality of nursing as a twenty four hour continuity of care and met professional and education competency standards. It also demonstrated that with visionary partnerships new models of clinical experience for the enrolled nurse can be developed that meet today’s challenges to provideflexible models of clinical experience.
Microbial Mobilization and Reprecipitation of Transition Metals in Waste Rock from an Abandoned Pyrite Mine: Implications for Metal Recovery
Authors: Tam Wing Lam Savina , McParland Decla , Jones Thomas R. , Power Ian M. , Langendam Andrew , Southam Gordon , McCutcheon Jenine 
Published: June 2024

Abstract
The Pyrite Mines in Sulphide, Ontario are a collection of historic mine workings representing one of more than 6000 abandoned mines in Ontario. Historic mines are receiving renewed interest as potential sources of critical minerals for use in low carbon technologies. This study characterizes waste rock from the Pyrite Mines in the context of metal distribution, microbial activity, bioleaching, and acid mine drainage (AMD) bioremediation for the recovery of metals. Acidophilic Fe-oxidizing bacteria cultured from the waste rock produced schwertmannite [Fe8O8(OH)8−2x(SO4)x·nH2O] and ammoniojarosite [NH4Fe3(SO4)2(OH)6] with similar morphologies to those often observed in acidic sulfidic mine settings. Fe- and S-oxidizing bacteria found naturally in the waste rock were used in waste rock bioleaching column experiments that demonstrated AMD formation and metal mobilization. The columns produced acidic leachates (pH = 1.75) containing dissolved constituents, including sulfur (1577 mg/L), iron (547.7 mg/L), nickel (12.6 mg/L), manganese (7.3 mg/L), copper (2.3 mg/L), zinc (2.0 mg/L), chromium (1.5 mg/L), and titanium (0.7 mg/L). The proportion of metals successfully leached from the waste rock was variable, with leaching efficiencies calculated for nickel (31%), manganese (10.5%), iron (1.5%), chromium (1.4%), and titanium (0.02%). The leachates produced by the bioleaching columns were amended in subsequent bioremediation columns using sulfate reducing bacteria cultured from the mine site. Remediation efficiencies for elements of interest were calculated as cobalt (100%), chromium (100%), copper (100%), iron (90%), titanium (68%), nickel (52%), manganese (52%), and sulfur (43%). Mapping elemental distributions in thin sections from one of the bioleaching columns using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy revealed the heterogeneity of the waste rock. Iron was observed in both euhedral mineral grains, likely pyrite, and in secondary cements coating grains in the waste rock. Nickel, manganese, and chromium were primarily co-located with the iron. Titanium was primarily co-located with calcium in titanite (CaTiSiO5), making it challenging to target with bioleaching. This study demonstrates the heterogeneous nature of metal distribution in waste rock from this historic mine site. It indicates that successful metal recovery from legacy mine waste will require such materials to be treated as anthropogenic mineral deposits that require “exploration” and characterization much like naturally occurring ore deposits.
Comparative analysis of comorbidity, surgical complications, pharmacotherapeutic needs, and rehabilitation requirements in transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair versus conventional operative treatment—current results and benefits
Authors: Kostov Konstantin , Marinov Vesselin Marinov , Ivanova Stefka Аchkova , Semerdzhieva Niya Emilova , Chaneva Mariya Sevdelinova , Atanasova Ventseslava Petrova , Atanasov Petar Yordanov , Vakrilova Becheva Maria Stamova , Petkova Valentina Bojanova 
Published: June 2024

Background: Laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) inguinal hernia repair is a relatively new method of inguinal hernia surgical repair that, at theory, provides a good view of the inguinal anatomy and sac contents and, as a laparoscopic procedure, is considered less invasive and with fewer complications compared to total extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair.
Purpose: This study aims to assess the short-term outcome of laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia (TAPP) repair.
Material and methods: The retrospective clinical data for 138 patients with unilateral and bilateral hernia, operated in the Department of General, Visceral, and Emergency Surgery of the University Emergency Medicine Hospital ‘N. Pirogov’ from 01 January 2022, to 01 January 2023, were included. The risk profile of the patients, the intraoperative and postoperative complications, the duration of hospital stay, the frequency, and the type of analgesics used were analyzed.
Results: Forty-one women (29.7%) were included; men comprised 97 (70.29%) of the cohort. Of the selected group, 63 (45.7%) patients had indirect inguinal hernias, 34 (24.6%), and 25 (18.1%) were diagnosed with direct inguinal hernia and accreta inguinal hernia, respectively. A history of repeatedly occurring hernias was found in 16 patients (11.6%). The average hospital stay was 32 hours (or 1.3 days) and ranged from 24 hours (1 day) to 48 hours (2 days). Complications occurred in 11 (7.97%) patients.
The need for analgesics and anti-inflammatory agents was reliably reduced compared to the patients undergoing conventional surgical treatment of inguinal hernia. The patients were followed for three months post-discharge for the occurrence of surgical morbidity associated with the TAPP hernia repair. None of the patients used an antimicrobial agent, as indicated by a possible complicating bacterial infection. Rehabilitation was started within the first 12 hours after the operation, thus contributing to a significantly shorter hospital stay compared to patients undergoing conventional surgical repair of an inguinal hernia.
Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that TAPP inguinal hernia repair is a safe procedure with reduced postoperative pain. It has fewer complications, with no significantly longer operative time and a shorter overall hospital stay.
Development of the “Through the Eyes of …” Program for Improving Cultural Awareness
Authors: Tschannen Dana , Tillman-Meakins Patricia , Keiser Megan , Bathish Melissa , Turkelson Carman 
Published: June 2024

Background
Understanding the role implicit bias plays in health inequities can aid students in adopting a culturally humble approach to working with diverse communities. This article describes the development of the “Through the Eyes of …” training program, aimed at improving cultural humility, empathy, and implicit bias awareness of nursing students.

Method
A series of simulated experiences using 360-degree video capture was developed, allowing students to explore personal and societal responses to the experiences of the populations served within the community. The training materials were pilot tested with a group of prelicensure nursing students.

Results

Students (
N
= 25) reported strong agreement that the simulations provided adequate information, necessary support, problem-solving ability, time for feedback/reflection, and fidelity. The students enjoyed hearing other perspectives and the realistic nature of the simulated scenarios.

Conclusion

The program allowed students the opportunities to explore with the goal of improving nursing practice and patient outcomes.

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J Nurs Educ.
2025;64(2):136–140.]
The Changing Landscape of Gendered Language in Pregnancy and Birth: Editors' Experiences
Authors: Grace Karen Trister , Jeffers Noelene K. , Tringali Tanya , Farley Cindy L. 
Published: June 2024

Background:
The revision of a textbook covering prenatal and postnatal care provided our editorial team with an opportunity to critically examine language choices and incorporate gender-inclusive language.

Method:
Guided by scientific evidence, professional recommendations, editorials, and a deep respect for the humanity of our clients, we undertook this task with humility and determination.

Results:
This article describes the societal and clinical imperative for this change, the strategies and resources we used to make these changes, and our experiences in discussing these changes and coming to consensus with contributing authors.

Conclusion:

Challenges are discussed, as well as recommendations for authors and editors.

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J Nurs Educ
. 2024;63(X):XXX–XXX.]
Du « piment » et des « casseroles ». La cuisine des carrières des enseignant·es de lycée au prisme de l’engagement professionnel
Authors: Bertron Caroline , Farges Géraldine , Vélu Anne-Élise 
Published: June 2024

L’engagement professionnel est devenu omniprésent en tant qu’injonction et norme du travail pour les enseignant·es. L’article propose d’étudier cet engagement à partir des dimensions institutionnelles de leurs carrières, en particulier des conditions d’affectation et de mobilité et du rapport des enseignant·es à ces conditions, et de leurs trajectoires sociales. Nous mobilisons 44 entretiens réalisés avec des enseignant·es dans des lycées diversifiés d’une même académie, que nous avons exploités en recueillant les propos tenus sur le travail et sur ce qui lui donne sens. À l’opposé d’une conception monolithique de la fonction publique au sein de laquelle l’intensité de l’engagement pourrait être mesurée, nous montrons une diversité de rapports au « jeu » institutionnel des affectations, en début de carrière comme par la suite. Différentes formes d’engagement professionnel coexistent, produites par la rencontre entre des trajectoires de vie et d’accès au métier, et des conditions de travail et d’emploi. Ainsi, les conditions d’un engagement professionnel localisé sont inégalement distribuées parmi les enseignant·es, qui peuvent se reconnaître dans des formes d’engagement peu valorisées institutionnellement.
« Enseigner à produire autrement », ou comment le travail et l’image des enseignants et formateurs sont bousculés
Authors: Gaborieau Isabelle , Peltier Christian 
Published: June 2024

Le plan stratégique « Enseigner à produire autrement » (EPA1, 2014-2018 et EPA2, 2020-2024) constitue un plan très ambitieux, qui vise, d’un point de vue politique, des transformations tant du système de production agricole que du système de formation lui-même. Parties prenantes du Dispositif national d’appui à l’enseignement agricole technique et chercheurs en sciences de l’éducation et de la formation, nous nous intéressons à la manière dont, dans les situations d’enseignement-apprentissage que proposent les enseignants et les formateurs, cette prescription est appropriée et mise en œuvre (Gaborieau & Peltier, 2019). Cette note de recherche précise tout d’abord en quoi ce plan constitue un véritable changement de paradigme pour les enseignants-formateurs en termes de modèle agricole ainsi que de modèle d’enseignement-apprentissage. Elle cherche ensuite à identifier les raisons des difficultés des enseignants-formateurs à s’en saisir pleinement. Elle propose enfin de questionner le travail du chercheur-intervenant afin d’accompagner ces mêmes acteurs dans la transformation de leur modèle de formation vers un modèle alliant dimension constructive et dimension productive des apprentissages.