Outputs (671)

Sustainability and resilience in midwifery: a discussion paper. (2016)
Journal Article
CROWTHER, S., HUNTER, B., MCARA-COUPER, J., WARREN, L., GILKISON, A., HUNTER, M., FIELDER, A. and KIRKHAM, M. 2016. Sustainability and resilience in midwifery: a discussion paper. Midwifery [online], 40, pages 40-48. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2016.06.005

Background: Midwifery workforce issues are of international concern. Sustainable midwifery practice, and how resilience is a required quality for midwives, have begun to be researched. How these concepts are helpful to midwifery continues to be debat... Read More about Sustainability and resilience in midwifery: a discussion paper..

Supporting practice learning time for non-medical prescribing students: managers' views. (2016)
Journal Article
UNWIN, R., REDMAN, S., BAIN, H., MACPHEE, M., MCELHINNEY, E., DOWNER, F. and PATERSON, R. 2016. Supporting practice learning time for non-medical prescribing students: managers' views. Nursing management [online], 23(3), pages 25-29. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7748/nm.23.3.25.s27

Managers in healthcare services have ever-increasing demands to consider in relation to front line care, including the continuing professional education needs of qualified practitioners who are advancing their roles. One advancement is non-medical pr... Read More about Supporting practice learning time for non-medical prescribing students: managers' views..

Providing rural and remote rural midwifery care: an 'expensive hobby'. (2016)
Journal Article
CROWTHER, S. 2016. Providing rural and remote rural midwifery care: an 'expensive hobby'. New Zealand College of Midwives journal [online], 52, pages 26-34. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12784/nzcomjnl52.2016.4.26-34

Background: Providing midwifery care in rural and remote rural regions can be challenging in many ways. This includes financial arrangements for midwives in New Zealand. This paper draws from a larger study exploring the lived experience of rural and... Read More about Providing rural and remote rural midwifery care: an 'expensive hobby'..

Self-management of coronary heart disease in older patients after elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. (2016)
Journal Article
DAWKES, S., SMITH, G.D., ELLIOTT, L., RAESIDE, R., DONALDSON, J.H. 2016. Self-management of coronary heart disease in older patients after elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Journal of geriatric cardiology [online], 13(5), pages 393-400. Available from: http://jgc301.ijournals.cn/ch/reader/create_pdf.aspx?file_no=S_20151209002&flag=1

Objective: To explore how older patients self-manage their coronary heart disease (CHD) after undergoing elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). Methods: This mixed methods study used a sequential, explanatory design and recru... Read More about Self-management of coronary heart disease in older patients after elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty..

An analysis of policy to practice initiatives in Scotland: what are the key lessons learned? (2016)
Journal Article
SHUAI, Z. and MACDUFF, C. 2016. An analysis of policy to practice initiatives in Scotland: what are the key lessons learned? Journal of nursing management [online], 24(6), pages 825-833. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12389

Aim - The study sought to identify and explain common issues and lessons arising from four national health policy initiatives related to nursing, midwifery and allied health professions (NMAHPs) in Scotland between 2005 and 2010. Background - The Sco... Read More about An analysis of policy to practice initiatives in Scotland: what are the key lessons learned?.

Measuring patient activation: the utility of the patient activation measure within a UK context: results from four exemplar studies and potential future applications. (2016)
Journal Article
ROBERTS, N.J., KIDD, L., DOUGALL, N., PATEL, I.S., MCNARRY, S. and NIXON, C. 2016. Measuring patient activation: the utility of the patient activation measure within a UK context: results from four exemplar studies and potential future applications. Patient education and counseling [online], 99(10), pages 1739-1746. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2016.05.006

Objective: Patient activation can be measured using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) developed by Hibbard et al., however, little is known about the uses of the PAM in research and in practice. This study aims to explore its differing utility in... Read More about Measuring patient activation: the utility of the patient activation measure within a UK context: results from four exemplar studies and potential future applications..

What doctors need to know: prescribing or not for the oldest old. (2016)
Journal Article
KYDD, A. and FLEMING, A. 2016. What doctors need to know: prescribing or not for the oldest old. Maturitas [online], 90, pages 9-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.05.003

Given the global increase in the number of people over the age of 85, there is a growing body of work concerning this group, termed the oldest old. Much of this work is confined to the literature specialising in geriatrics and the more generic health... Read More about What doctors need to know: prescribing or not for the oldest old..

Crafting stories from verbatim data in hermeneutic phenomenology is trustworthy and useful. (2016)
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CROWTHER, S. 2016. Crafting stories from verbatim data in hermeneutic phenomenology is trustworthy and useful. International journal of qualitative methods [online], 15(1), abstracts, oral presentations from the Qualitative methods conference (QM), 1-3 May 2016, Glasgow, UK, page 10. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406916672113

Abstract of the oral presentation given at the qualitative methods conferece (QM) 1 - 3 May 2016, Glasgow, UK.

The experiences of caregivers of patients with delirium, and their role in its management in palliative care settings: an integrative literature review. (2016)
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FINUCANE, A.M., LUGTON, J., KENNEDY, C. and SPILLER, J.A. 2017. The experiences of caregivers of patients with delirium, and their role in its management in palliative care settings: an integrative literature review. Psycho-oncology [online], 26(3), pages 291-300. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4140

Objectives - To explore the experiences of caregivers of terminally ill patients with delirium, to determine the potential role of caregivers in the management of delirium at the end of life, to identify the support required to improve caregiver expe... Read More about The experiences of caregivers of patients with delirium, and their role in its management in palliative care settings: an integrative literature review..

Appreciative inquiry as an intervention to change nursing practice in in-patient settings: an integrative review. (2016)
Journal Article
WATKINS, S., DEWAR, B. and KENNEDY, C. 2016. Appreciative inquiry as an intervention to change nursing practice in in-patient settings: an integrative review. International journal of nursing studies [online], 60, pages 179-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.04.017

Background: High profile accounts of failures in patient care reflect an urgent need for transformational development in healthcare. Appreciative Inquiry is promoted as an approach to exploring and bringing about change in social systems. Appreciativ... Read More about Appreciative inquiry as an intervention to change nursing practice in in-patient settings: an integrative review..