Background: Preterm birth remains a critical global health challenge, particularly in resource-constrained settings such as Malawi, where maternal and neonatal healthcare resources are often limited. While it is undeniably ...

Ethics is a foundational competency in healthcare inherent in everyday nursing practice. Therefore, the promotion of qualified nurses' and nursing students' moral competence is essential to ensure ethically high-quality ...

Background: Multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity) are becoming more prevalent among aging populations. Digital health technologies have the potential to assist in the self-management of multimorbidity, improving the ...

This research is situated within the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) a nationally representative study involving 753 participants with an intellectual disability ...

As if growing up wasn’t hard enough, the transition from paediatric to adult care can be a particularly confusing and overwhelming experience for the survivors of childhood cancer. On World Cancer Day 2022, let’s think ...

The incidence of chronic kidney disease is increasing internationally with many risk factors for chronic kidney disease also being risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Nurses should use primary, secondary and tertiary prevention ...

Background: Breastfeeding continuation rates are low in Ireland. The Breastfeeding Observation and Assessment Tool (BOAT) was developed to assist public health nurses in assessing breastfeeding challenges; however, little ...

Prior authorization criteria for Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approved immunotherapeutics, among the class of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), established by state drug formulary committees, are tailored for ...

This qualitative study seeks to establish whether dissonance theory provides a meaningful avenue to add insights into the experience of depression. Semi-structured interviews were used (n=30) in which fifteen participants ...