(Participant 25, Nurse) Uncertainty about how to initiate weight loss discussions when patients were presenting with problems unrelated to excess weight were discussed.
Four Seasons said it had been forced to hire more expensive agency nurses, as uncertainty over the status of EU workers choked off the supply of qualified staff from the continent.
The parents felt insecure and anxious when they sensed the PCHC nurse's uncertainty.
After the doctor had left, the auxiliary nurse uttered uncertainty about what drug to prescribe as the doctor had not advised anyone.
Several experienced nurses expressed uncertainty with the use of an algorithm to control the BG level instead of the 'good old way' of intuition and experience.
The issue of nurses' role uncertainty in spiritual care of cancer patients has been found previously [ 49], and there is evidence that nurses caring for neuro-oncology patients do not believe spiritual care is part of their role [ 29].
A recent study of CHCs in western Sweden reported that nurses expressed uncertainty about determining a child's weight status compared to BMI and also about counseling parents when their child was overweight or obese [ 38].
For decades various pressure ulcer risk assessment scales (PURAS) have been developed and implemented into nursing practice despite uncertainty whether use of these tools helps to prevent pressure ulcers.
Mental health nursing graduates reported uncertainty about their role and having to compromise their values.
Qualified nursing staff express uncertainty regarding their ability to facilitate therapeutic cooperation, and periodically report an overreliance on professional dialogue to reduce the possibility that service users will refuse an aspect of care they are otherwise deemed to require.
To summarise, carers and nursing staff reported uncertainty and information needs in areas such as physical care, patient comfort, hygiene assistance, equipment, symptom management and managing diet, factors we have interpreted as knowledge and competence factors.
