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Call the student midwife: experiencing home birth. (2016)
Journal Article
LAWRIE, A. and RENNIE, A.M. 2016. Call the student midwife: experiencing home birth. The practising midwife [online], 19(9). Available from: https://www.all4maternity.com/call-student-midwife-experiencing-home-birth/

Midwives should be competent in caring for women experiencing home birth. Home birth is influenced by exposure during midwifery education. In the UK not all student midwives experience home birth, and this paper discusses the barriers that currently... Read More about Call the student midwife: experiencing home birth..

Optimising self-care support for people with heart failure and their caregivers: development of the Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) intervention using intervention mapping. (2016)
Journal Article
GREAVES, C.J., WINGHAM, J., DEIGHAN, C., et al. 2016. Optimising self-care support for people with heart failure and their caregivers: development of the Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) intervention using intervention mapping. Pilot and feasibility studies [online], 2(1), article number 37. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-016-0075-x

We aimed to establish the support needs of people with heart failure and their caregivers and develop an intervention to improve their health-related quality of life. We used intervention mapping to guide the development of our intervention. We ident... Read More about Optimising self-care support for people with heart failure and their caregivers: development of the Rehabilitation Enablement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) intervention using intervention mapping..

More than just an online wound care course. (2016)
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ADAMS, V. and WHITTINGHAM, K. 2016. More than just an online wound care course. Wounds UK [online], 12(2), pages 42-47. Available from: https://www.wounds-uk.com/download/wuk_article/954

Wound care competence is an essential component of clinical nursing. However, practice in this area can be determined by tradition rather than evidence. This may be one of the drivers for nurses to enrol in further formal wound care education. This m... Read More about More than just an online wound care course..

Crafting stories in hermeneutic phenomenology research: a methodological device. (2016)
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CROWTHER, S., IRONSIDE, P., SPENCE, D. and SMYTHE, L. 2017. Crafting stories in hermeneutic phenomenology research: a methodological device. Qualitative health research [online], 27(6), pages 826-835. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732316656161

Hermeneutic phenomenology, as a methodology, is not fixed. Inherent in its enactment are contested areas of practice such as how interview data are used and reported. Using philosophical notions drawn from hermeneutic phenomenological literature, we... Read More about Crafting stories in hermeneutic phenomenology research: a methodological device..

Collaborative outcomes learning tool (COLT): a multi-agency educational resource to support complex public protection understanding and practice. (2016)
Journal Article
HEYMAN, I., INNES, G. and GOODHAND, K. 2016. Collaborative outcomes learning tool (COLT): a multi-agency educational resource to support complex public protection understanding and practice. Journal of perspectives in applied academic practice [online], 4(3), pages 48-55. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v4i3.168

Multi-agency public protection practice has received significant media and government scrutiny in recent years, in response to failings to protect those most vulnerable people in society. Despite an appreciation by agencies that there are resource an... Read More about Collaborative outcomes learning tool (COLT): a multi-agency educational resource to support complex public protection understanding and practice..

Comparing school nurses' roles in supporting children who are bullied. (2016)
Journal Article
BLAKESLEE, T.L., EBOH, W.O., MONSEN, K.A. and KVARME, L.G. 2016. Comparing school nurses' roles in supporting children who are bullied. British journal of school nursing [online], 11(5), pages 246-250. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjsn.2016.11.5.246

This systematic literature review explores the role of school nurses n helping children being bullied in three countries, Norway, Scotland and the United States (US). Comparisons were made of the way school nurses were trained and employed to better... Read More about Comparing school nurses' roles in supporting children who are bullied..

Is there an app for that? Mobile phones and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. (2016)
Journal Article
NEUBECK, L., CARTLEDGE, S., DAWKES, S. and GALLAGHER, R. 2017. Is there an app for that? Mobile phones and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Current opinion in cardiology [online], 32(5), pages 567-571. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1097/HCO.0000000000000428

Purpose of review: Advances in technology coupled with increased penetration of mobile phones and smart devices are rapidly changing healthcare delivery. Mobile phone applications (‘apps’), text messages, and Internet platforms used alone or in combi... Read More about Is there an app for that? Mobile phones and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease..

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)
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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)
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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..

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..

Strategies for enhancing 'person knowledge' in an older people care setting. (2016)
Journal Article
DEWAR, B. and KENNEDY, C. 2016. Strategies for enhancing 'person knowledge' in an older people care setting. Western journal of nursing research [online], 38(11), pages 1469-1488. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945916641939

This article presents findings from a study about compassionate care?the development of person knowledge in a medical ward caring for older people. Appreciative inquiry, an approach to research that focuses on discovering what works well and implemen... Read More about Strategies for enhancing 'person knowledge' in an older people care setting..

Midwifing the notion of a 'good' birth: a philosophical analysis. (2016)
Journal Article
SMYTHE, E., HUNTER, M., GUNN, J., CROWTHER, S., MCARA-COUPER, J., WILSON, S. and PAYNE, D. 2016. Midwifing the notion of a 'good' birth: a philosophical analysis. Midwifery [online], 37, pages 25-31. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2016.03.012

Objective: to ponder afresh what makes a good birth experience in a listening manner. Design: a hermeneutic approach that first explores the nature of how to listen to a story that is already familiar to us and then draws on Heidegger's notion of the... Read More about Midwifing the notion of a 'good' birth: a philosophical analysis..

Safer prescribing: a trial of education, informatics, and financial incentives. (2016)
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DREISCHULTE, T., DONNAN, P., GRANT, A., HAPCA, A., MCCOWAN, C. and GUTHRIE, B. 2016. Safer prescribing: a trial of education, informatics, and financial incentives. New England journal of medicine [online], 374(11), pages 1053-1064. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa1508955

High-risk prescribing and preventable, drug-related complications are common in primary care. We evaluated whether the rates of high-risk prescribing by primary care clinicians and the related clinical outcomes would be reduced through a complex inte... Read More about Safer prescribing: a trial of education, informatics, and financial incentives..

Can maternity care move beyond risk? Implications for midwifery as a profession. (2016)
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HEALY, S., HUMPHREYS, E. and KENNEDY, C. 2016. Can maternity care move beyond risk? Implications for midwifery as a profession. British journal of midwifery [online], 24(3), pages 203-209. Available from: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2016.24.3.203

Maternal and infant mortality rates are reassuringly low in developed countries. Despite this, birth is increasingly seen as risky by women, health professionals and society in general. In wider society, women are subjected to a litany of risks regar... Read More about Can maternity care move beyond risk? Implications for midwifery as a profession..

Combining S-cone and luminance signals adversely affects discrimination of objects within backgrounds. (2016)
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JENNINGS, B.J., TSATTALIOS, K., CHAKRAVARTHI, R. and MARTINOVIC, J. 2016. Combining S-cone and luminance signals adversely affects discrimination of objects within backgrounds. Scientific reports [online], 6, article number 20504. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20504

The visual system processes objects embedded in complex scenes that vary in both luminance and colour. In such scenes, colour contributes to the segmentation of objects from backgrounds, but does it also affect perceptual organisation of object conto... Read More about Combining S-cone and luminance signals adversely affects discrimination of objects within backgrounds..