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A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of returning to her teaching jobs after her stroke despite the aphasia.

The article offers guidance for using enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) to boost care from prehab to rehabilitation. It highlights examples of ERAS implementation including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on perioperative care and inclusion of support for patients to drink, eat and mobilize after surgery. It advises medical documentation, use of waiting times to prepare patients for surgery and focus on exercise and nutrition as part of ERAS program.

The article suggests considering phakic intraoperative lens (IOLs) for younger patients with midrange myopia. Topics discussed include advantages of phakic IOLs, an advantage of the unique reversibility of a phakic IOL procedure over other refractive surgery types, and best candidates for phakic lenses.

The article presents an interview with Diana Haneski, library media specialist at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDHS) in Parkland, Florida. Among the issues she discussed include how her survival from the February 2018 mass shooting at MSDHS led her to implementing initiatives aimed at supporting students' emotional recovery, the significance of River, a Bernedoodle and therapy dog, to the library, and how she helped transformed the library into a student relaxation area.

This section evaluates the XEN Gel Stent surgical implant developed by pharmaceutical firm Allergan for the treatment of glaucoma.

The article discuses the need for support to healthcare workers like nurses who were recovering from long-COVID to effectively cope from their debilitating symptoms. Other topics include the number of people in the United Kingdom (UK) experiencing long-COVID, the most common Long-COVID symptoms like extreme fatigue, insomnia, cough, and shortness of breath, and the Unison survey of healthcare assistants, nurses, porters and clinical support staff on long-COVID and their work.

The article presents a study of post-acute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among adults 18 years old and above in Long Beach, California from April 1 to December 10, 2020. Topics discussed include the use of multivariable logistic regression in analyzing the symptoms of the patients, number of adults who reported post-acute sequelae two months after SARS-CoV-2 positive test result, and implication of the limited sample size in the study.

The article discusses a study reported by Dr. Henry Klassen in a presentation at the 8th annual Retinal Cell and Gene Therapy Innovation Summit in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he explained that retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) supply neurotrophic factors (NTFs) that in turn support survival and function of retinal neurons. Topics discussed include remarks by Klassen on substantial interocular differences in best-corrected visual acuities (BCVAs) and finding on the retinal anatomy.

The article discusses why some coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors do not recover or do not do so quickly as of March 2021. Topics covered include the emergence of the post-acute COVID syndrome condition, the possible damage to healthy tissue by cells designed to kill COVID invaders, and impairment swallowing and sensory damage to the larynx risks with extended ventilator use. Also noted is speech-language pathology's (SLP) help to patients with cognitive and communication concerns.

The article examines the elements that might constitute a recovery process for nurses during and following the COVID-19 pandemic and how such can be implemented to manage the personal repercussions of COVID-19. It tackles individual evidence-based strategies, including awareness, debriefing and personal self-care, and organisational interventions that may support nurses to recover and adapt to the new normal of working during COVID-19 and the potential for post-traumatic psychological growth.

Getting a good night's sleep in hospital is notoriously difficult. Patients are in beds they are not used to, wards are too warm (or too cold), staff are working, and machines beep all night long. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pressures created by COVID-19 may be contributing to an increase in problems with alcohol or drugs among nurses, say addiction experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programmes are an innovative approach to optimising patient outcomes in the perioperative period and have been implemented in various surgical departments across a range of specialties, with varying degrees of success. ERAS is an evidence-based, multimodal programme that has repeatedly demonstrated a reduction in post-operative complications and reduced the length of hospital stays following elective surgery. However, despite extensive evidence to support these benefits, several barriers to ERAS implementation have been identified. This article outlines the components of ERAS, focusing on the barriers to its implementation and how these could be overcome. It also discusses the implications of ERAS for patients, nurses and healthcare organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neuropsychiatry specialist nurses work in the fields of neurology and psychiatry, looking at how neurological illness, injury or events affect or contribute to symptoms of mental ill health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 has left devastation in its wake, not only in terms of the number of people who have died, but also those who have survived and are experiencing its lasting effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides insights from several experts in ophthalmology about subconjunctival minimally-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) procedures and the appropriate use of antimetabolites to enhance surgical success. Topics covered include how the expansion of new treatment options changed their goals of glaucoma therapy, five features that characterize an MIGS procedure, and the advantages and disadvantages of supraciliary outflow MIGS.

The author describes a multidisciplinary program she developed using external memory aids to help patients regain their cognitive function after experiencing delirium in the hospital. The method involves the use of memory diaries by patients in a rehabilitation unit who had acute memory deficits. The program aimed to have three entries a day in a memory diary to help recall of therapy sessions.

The article addresses alternatives to the use of general anesthesia for strabismus surgery in adults and modifications that can be made to general surgery to hasten recovery, according to Michael O'Connor, an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Topics discussed include one of the important concerns with general anesthesia, information on supplemental anesthesia with conscious sedation, and local anesthetics for conventional strabismus surgery.

More than 100,000 patients with COVID-19 have been looked after in hospitals in England alone. Most have been able to recover and leave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For patients having surgery, managing their pain is key to a speedy and full recovery – and nurses play a pivotal role in assessing and treating pain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with a teenage girl who suffered from long-term memory loss following a concussion is presented. The teenage girl discusses her recovery status, her symptoms after the concussion and what she remembers about working with the speech-language pathologist (SLP) after her third concussion. She also talks about the strategies she used to help with her memory and the aspects of the treatment she found most helpful.

The article discusses strategies that speech-language pathologists (SLP) can employ to help patients who suffered from traumatic brain injury (TBI) deal with somatic symptoms. Topics discussed include the most common somatic symptoms exhibited by TBI patients, the impact of patients' inability to manage somatic symptoms on their cognitive recovery and the advantages of using symptom tracking in TBI. Also discussed are the functions of mind miming when dealing with TBI somatic symptoms.

The article reports on the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) screening project of the National Health Service (NHS) Grenfell outreach team, created by Central and North West London National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust (CNWL) in the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire in London, England. Topics discussed include remarks from outreach team manager and nurse Emma Kennedy, and one of the strengths of the team's nurses, according to Grenfell chief psychologist John Green.

Postoperative pain continues to be a significant issue in healthcare, with a considerable proportion of patients experiencing severe pain after surgery and finding pain management at home challenging. There are several barriers to effective pain management, involving both patients and healthcare professionals. Patient education may be a useful way to overcome many of these barriers. This article outlines the four stages of the education process, which can be used to provide patient education: assessing the patient's educational needs and potential barriers to learning; setting educational objectives; teaching; and evaluating the patient's learning. This article discusses the issue of postoperative pain and how structured patient education, from admission to discharge, provided by skilled healthcare professionals, may improve postoperative recovery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the various types of abdominal stoma and surgical procedures resulting in stoma formation. Topics covered include the challenge posed by undergoing stoma formation, the varied role of the stoma specialist nurse and the areas that should be incorporated in postoperative stoma care. Also mentioned is the importance of practical training on the care of the stoma and its appliance.

The article presents the article "Preoperative care of patients undergoing stoma formation: what the nurse needs to know," by J. Burch. Topics discussed include types of stoma, indications for stoma formation, preoperative clinical investigations, and the preoperative role of the stoma specialist nurse.

The author presented a model in the 1990s to explain altered body image, which has been used to characterise the difficulties encountered by patients who experience body change as a result of illness, injury or disability. However, it remains a challenge for nurses to establish care plans that can assist patients to manage the psychological adjustments associated with disfigurement. This article presents some simple questions to help patients narrate their psychological experiences and needs, and proposes a model of psychological change, based on the work of Kübler-Ross, to enable nurses to anticipate patient requirements that might arise at different stages of the individual's recovery and rehabilitation. Body-image rehabilitation may be protracted. Therefore, it is essential for nurses to understand what the patient is thinking and feeling throughout the rehabilitation process and which stage of psychological change the patient is working through. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim The aim of this literature review was to explore the reasons why some patients are not suitable for discharge following day surgery. Method A pragmatic, mixed-methods approach was used to undertake a critical evaluation of the literature and current practice to determine what is already known about discharge following day surgery. Thematic analysis was used to identify the main themes and issues, enabling recommendations to be made to reduce the incidence of patients unable to be discharged following day surgery. Findings The main themes or reasons for delayed discharge following day surgery identified from the literature review were: post-operative nausea and vomiting, post-operative pain, going late to theatre and social factors. These themes were supported by the findings of an unpublished audit carried out in one day surgery unit in an NHS healthcare organisation in the south of England between June and August 2014, which indicated that 54 out of 1,180 day surgery patients required an overnight stay during this 12-week period. The audit also showed that a patient going late to theatre had the greatest effect on discharge outcomes. Conclusion Recommendations for practice include: the introduction of post-operative nausea and vomiting risk scoring and prophylactic protocols; reorganisation of theatre lists to ensure patients have enough time to recover; and provision of information during the pre-assessment process about the requirement for a responsible adult escort to take patients home and stay with them for the first 24 hours. These changes may help NHS organisations to improve discharge outcomes for day surgery patients and reduce unplanned costs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the leading role of nurses in north west England in a 2016 initiative to prevent and treat alcohol harm. Topics include the hospital alcohol liaison service at Tameside Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, the inconsistent approaches to acute alcohol management discovered by the project, and the service's impact on length of stay for alcohol-related admissions in every clinical area.

The article discusses a study by Dr. José-Alain Sahel, presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology's annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois which showed that an optogenetic treatment, GS030-MD from GenSight Biologics, showed a good safety profile in the phase 1/2 PIONEER trial in patients with end-stage retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Topics include clinical characteristics of RP, development of intraocular inflammation in five patients, and conclusion by the researchers on the therapy.

The article discusses the author's conversation with Angie Balfour, the senior enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) nurse for the National Health Service Lothian in Scotland and chair of the ERAS Society's nurse section. Topics mentioned include the aspects of ERAS including the optimization of nutrition, the barriers to its universal implementation including the public's refusal to take risks, and the important role of nurses in its success.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of caring for her husband after a brain injury.

The article focuses on how rehabilitation teams help people with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) resume an active life, after studies suggest that concussion rehabilitation is not helpful for people with mTBI. Topics discussed include the "Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation" article by Noah Silverberg and Grant Iverson in 2013 asking whether post-TBI rest really is the best medicine, the real problems with prolonged rest, and the considerations to take when working with people with TBIs.

Nurses are often urged to help patients learn about their illness and the self-management measures that may enable them to achieve a degree of independence after they have left hospital. However, little has been written about the practical process of facilitating patient learning while the patient makes sense of their circumstances and considers what they can do to manage any necessary lifestyle changes. Educational articles tend to focus on programmed learning, such as educational courses delivered to groups of patients with similar conditions. This article assists the nurse in reviewing what learning might entail for a patient and to explore why this type of learning is different to learning in other circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights how making micro invasive glaucoma surgeries (MIGS) as part of treatment is key to faster visual recovery following glaucoma surgery. Topics covered include the reasons that conventional pathway MIGS may not always be the best option for glaucoma surgeries, visual recovery after trabeculectomy or tube shunt surgery, and the association of subconjunctival MIGS with faster return to baseline visual acuity.

The article reports on a study of black and minority ethnic (BME) patients in a high-security hospital that recorded their experiences of marginalisation and inequality. Topics discussed include evidence about the over-representation of BME people in Great Britain's mental health and legal systems, recommendations for practice and another study which found that physical restraint was seen as a means for staff to control difficult situations in what can be a volatile environment.

Hospital admissions for patients with COVID-19 are rising, alongside staff sickness from the virus and fears of NHS services being overwhelmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Take yourself back to the age of 15. What thoughts swirled around your head? Did you worry about how you looked or what 'your friends and teachers thought of you?' Wendy Clarke, specialist lead for eating disorders at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in South Wales, believes nurses should be asking themselves these questions if they are to fully empathise, engage with and help young people with eating disorders. Ms Clarke's 15 years of experience in this specialty led her to establish a nurse-led eating disorder service, seeing around 60 new teenage patients a year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Involving and empowering people who use health services, and taking their experiences into account, has evolved from being considered good practice to being duties of the NHS. However, evidence suggests that the rate of progress and change has been slow, despite the constant emphasis on the merits of involving and engaging the public and patients. This article, written in collaboration with two service users, reports on efforts by nursing staff working in alcohol addiction to involve service users in setting up and managing the self-management and recovery training initiative at the Brian Hore Unit, part of the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. The article aims to encourage healthcare professionals to appreciate the benefits of proactive patient and public involvement for their organisations and for those who get involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although rehabilitation literature frequently refers to recovery as the ultimate goal of therapeutic interventions, what recovery actually means is not clearly explained. However, the recovery model has been widely discussed in the context of mental health services, and it has been suggested that this model may also be applied to services for people with other long-term health conditions. This article explores this suggestion further by examining the recovery model and its relationship to physical rehabilitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guy's and St Thomas' Charity has a £20 million annual budget to spend on innovative projects, and a good proportion of this goes on art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study by Dr. Robert C. Sergot of Thomas Jefferson University that investigated the use of recombinant gene GS010 (GenSight Biologics) for Leber Hereditary Optic Nueropathy. The gene therapy study to treat retinal vascular disease had unexpected positive findings showing that intra-vitreous injection of GS010 enters the systemic circulation and possibly accessed the contralateral eye. This suggests that GS010 has possible therapeutic effects in untreated fellow eye.

Surgery causes physiological stress on the body and carries inherent risks such as shock and haemorrhage. This article discusses cardiogenic and hypovolaemic shock and outlines the principles of safe and effective post-operative care, including recognising hypovolaemia, maintaining fluid balance and administering pain control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on call for more help for nurses in the United Kingdom (UK) recuperating from lingering symptoms of Covid-19.

The article presents views from readers on whether better flexible working options would help nurses recover from the Covid-19 pandemic

The article reports that the American Library Association (ALA) has developed a new COVID-19 Recovery Initiative web portal to serve as a central resource for ALA members and the wider library community as they seek guidance for the coronavirus pandemic.

Essential information: While for many people COVID-19 will causes minor symptoms, some, including older people, those with long-term health conditions and pregnant women, are at higher risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a study which compared the standard and dropless regimens for safety and ocular efficacy in controlling postoperative pain, inflammation and infection following cataract surgery. One advantage of the dropless regimen is that it reduced the out-of-pocket expenses for patients as it contains preservative-free corticosteroids. Further, the regimen demonstrates no medication toxicity and less superficial punctate keratitis.

A nurse who survived COVID-19 said her colleagues' care saved her life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]