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Nurses need to engage family caregivers on disease-specific teachings that might promote understanding of the disease process and role expectation. Family caregivers may benefit from social support services.

Introduction Measuring patients' experience in the emergency department can be an avenue through which the patients are able to evaluate their own care experience, and this may provide guidance for healthcare professionals in addressing quality improvement. This scoping review aimed to identify and examine existing tools that measure patients' experience in the emergency department. Methods A scoping review was carried out to synthesize evidence from a range of studies in order to describe the characteristics of each study and their sample, and to describe the tools used to measure patients' experience in the emergency department. Results Out of the 308 articles retrieved, results of the first and second level screening yielded 10 articles for inclusion using 9 different experience tools/questionnaire in the emergency department. Conclusion Measuring patients' experience in the emergency department is a global concern, however research conducted in low-to-middle-income countries is very limited and such research in Africa appears to be absent. Getting consumers of care to evaluate their experience may help healthcare professionals to identify discrepancies in care and plan possible strategies to address them.

This single dose randomized study found that the test and reference products met the criteria for bioequivalence in the fasting healthy adult volunteers.

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The considerable increase in the intensity and duration of care provided to the elderly by family caregivers warrants a detailed review of the support interventions available to these “invisible” individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Family caregivers had limited access to respite care due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 protocols. This increased their stress and the burden of caregiving. This commentary article details the experiences of family caregivers of the elderly and establish the type of support interventions available to them during the pandemic, especially in low-and-middle-income countries. Random search of literature was conducted, and themes identified include: “fear of contagion”, “limited resources”, “knowledge deficit” and “grieving in solitary”. In addition, this article recommends strategies to mitigate the burden and stress experienced by them.

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