Lynda J Hughes, Julia Alcock, Rachel Wardrop, Renee Stone, Beth Pierce
Remediation in clinical practice for student nurses - A scoping review
Nurse education today
prescriptions sedativehypnotics written family physicians given influence preceptors residents prescribing study explored family physician preceptors manage sleeping problems family physician preceptors affiliated postgraduate training program alberta invited participate mixedmethods study conducted january october 2021 included quantitative survey preceptors attitudes treatment options sleep disorder perceptions patient expectations selfefficacy beliefs participants indicated responses 5point likert scale ranging strongly disagree strongly agree respondents asked whether interested participating semistructured qualitative interview elicited preceptors management sleep disorder response series vignettes analyzed quantitative data using descriptive statistics qualitative interviews using thematic analysis 76 preceptors invited participate 47 62 completed survey 10 interviewed thirtytwo survey respondents 68 academic teaching clinics 15 32 community clinics majority participants 34 72 agreed sufficient expertise use nondrug treatment 43 91 made efforts reduce prescribing 45 96 felt able support patients empathically using sleeping medication qualitative data showed management sleeping disorder emotionally challenging participants hesitated prescribe sedatives reported exceptions prescribing many included indications within guideline recommendations participants reluctant change colleagues management preceptors confident using nonpharmacologic management treat sleep disorder hesitant use sedativehypnotics presenting legitimate use sedatives exceptional behaviour acknowledging social norms affective aspects involved prescribing may support balanced prescribing sedativehypnotics sleep disorder reduce physician anxiety