Self-care and cancer: Comment on Riegel et al. (2020) 'Characteristics of self-care interventions for patients with a ch...
Tishelman et al's response to Morrison : advance directives/care planning : clear, simple, and wrong (DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2...
Instruments assessing medication literacy in adult recipients of care: A systematic review of measurement properties.
The assessment of medication literacy in patients is an important step in assisting clinicians to plan for education, prescription simplification, assistance and/or medication aids. There have been several attempts to develop a standardised, objective measure of medication literacy. The objectives of this systematic review were to critically apprai...
Palliative and End-of-Life Care in a Small Caribbean Country: A Mortality Follow-back Study of Home Deaths.
Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
Empirical information on circumstances of dying from advanced illness in developing countries remains sparse. Evidence indicates that out-of-hospital end-of-life care can have significant benefits such as increased satisfaction for the patient and caregivers and cost-effective for a health-care system. Services that are aimed to deliver care at pri...
The perspectives of adults with suicidal ideation and behaviour regarding their interactions with nurses in mental healt...
Published in International journal of nursing studies
In contemporary healthcare, both community and inpatient mental health and emergency services are important help-seeking avenues for persons with suicidal ideation and behaviour. Regarding nursing practice in these services, there is a strong focus on assessing and managing suicide risk. Within this clinical context, the perspectives of persons wit...
International COVID-19 Palliative Care Guidance for Nursing Homes Leaves Key Themes Unaddressed.
Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
COVID-19 mortality disproportionally affects nursing homes, creating enormous pressures to deliver high-quality end-of-life care. Comprehensive palliative care should be an explicit part of both national and global COVID-19 response plans. Therefore, we aimed to identify, review, and compare national and international COVID-19 guidance for nursing ...
Comparing Advance Care Planning in Young-Onset Dementia in the USA vs Belgium: Challenges Partly Related to Societal Con...
...Published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Advance care planning in young-onset dementia largely remains a blind spot within current literature. This study aimed to explore the engagement in and the conceptualization of advance care planning from the perspective of family caregivers of persons with young-onset dementia and to identify potential similarities and differences in this area betw...
Advance care planning for people living with dementia: An umbrella review of effectiveness and experiences.
Published in International journal of nursing studies
End of life care is often inadequate for people with dementia. Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve outcomes for people with dementia. The aim of this review is to establish the strength of the evidence and provide decision makers with a clear understanding of what is known about ACP for people living with dementia. Evidence sy...
A comparison of faculty led, mentorship program and peer mentoring on nursing students wound dressing clinical skills.
Published in Nurse education today
The promotion of clinical nursing education requires using modern educational methods to develop students' knowledge and skills. There are however many different models by which education can be delivered with a wealth of literature supporting varying approaches. This is of particular relevance to clinical education where to date no singular approa...
Advance care planning among older adults of Turkish origin in Belgium : exploratory interview study
