Ren Kikuchi, Toru Hirano, Kei Watanabe, Atsuki Sano, Tsuyoshi Sato, Takui Ito, Naoto Endo, Naohito Tanabe
Gender differences in the prevalence of low back pain associated with sports activities in children and adolescents: a six-year annual survey of a birth cohort in Niigata City, Japan
BMC musculoskeletal disorders
explore understand medicalsurgical nurses perceived selfconfidence leadership abilities first responders recognising responding clinical deterioration prior arrival emergency response team patients admitted hospitals multiple complex health issues likely experience clinical deterioration majority clinical deterioration events occur medicalsurgical units medicalsurgical nurses frequently first healthcare professionals identify signs symptoms clinical deterioration initiate lifesaving interventions prospective crosssectional descriptive quantitative design using survey method used nurses recruited integrated healthcare system located southeast united states nurses completed demographic selfconfidence leadership ability questionnaire one hundred fortyeight nurses participated study nurses felt moderately selfconfident recognising assessing intervening clinical deterioration events addition nurses felt moderately comfortable performing leadership skills prior arrival emergency response team significant positive relationship found perceived selfconfidence leadership abilities age certification status significant predictors nurses leadership ability although nurses felt moderately selfconfident comfortable executing leadership abilities improvement needed ensure nurses competent recognising patients deterioration cues making sound decisions taking appropriate timely actions rescue patients strategies need developed increase nurses selfconfidence execution leadership abilities handling deterioration events positive patient outcomes educational provisions focus various clinical deterioration events build nurses selfconfidence leadership abilities handling clinical deterioration nurses obtain national certification increase knowledge clinical reasoning skills