The effectiveness of a brief motivational nursing intervention to reduce psychoactive substance consumption in entertainment-sector workers: A transversal, observation, and semi-experimental study

Staged Nursing Intervention: The Effect of the Compliance in Liver Cancer Patients with Interventional Therapy

Objective

To evaluate the effect of the compliance in liver cancer patients with interventional therapy in the use of staged nursing intervention.

Methods

A total of sixty liver cancer patients with interventional therapy were enrolled from January 2019 to December 2020. All patients were randomized to the control group (n = 30) and the experimental group (n = 30); routine nursing intervention and staged nursing intervention were conducted, respectively. The characteristics of compliance, psychological state, and other related indicators were recorded and compared.

Results

The experimental group experienced lower VAS scores and higher treatment compliance. After intervention, both groups observed obvious reductions in the self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) scores, self-rating depression scale (SDS), and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores, while those were markedly lower in the experimental group (all P < 0.05). The experimental group yielded a significantly lower complication rate than the control group (P < 0.05).

Conclusion

In liver cancer patients with interventional therapy, staged nursing intervention could effectively relieve the pain, reduce the incidence of complications, and timely eliminate the negative emotion, thus playing a vital impact on the prognosis, worthy of further promotion.

Making the case for clinical mental health nurses to break their silence on the healing they create: A critical discussion

This discursive paper aims to clarify what roles mental health nurses identify as being within their scope of practice in clinical settings. It also aims to highlight any consumer benefits arising from these roles. Role theory and its relationship with identity are critically discussed as a framework to explain how contemporary mental health nursing roles are poorly understood and undervalued within mental health services. In order to meet the aims of the paper literature written in the last five years by clinical mental health nurses reporting their roles, and outcomes of those roles were searched. This literature was then considered through the lens of social constructionism that premises truths are accessed and then constructed though relationship based language. Six core mental health nursing roles were identified across international settings. The MHN is a psychotherapist. The MHN is a consumer advocate. The MHN is a physical health therapist. The MHN is a psycho-pharmacological therapist. The MHN is a relationship focussed therapist and finally the MHN is an aggression management therapist. While European and American nurses reported consumer benefit emerging from these roles those from Australia and the United Kingdom did not. The roles reported on were largely instrumental ones that offered little clarity towards the identity of our profession, nor its worth to consumers or funders of services. Mental health nurses will only have their true breadth of clinical capabilities recognized where there is a consistent construction emerging from clinicians in clinical settings on the efficacy of their clinical work.