Browsing Nursing and midwifery - Collected Works by Title
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Facilitating or getting in the way? The effect of clinicians' knowledge, values and beliefs on referral and participation
(SAGE Publications, 2016-02-01)Background Despite the compelling evidence of the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on risk factor modification, quality of life and mortality reduction, a significant proportion of eligible patients are not referred ... -
Factors affecting the integration of immigrant nurses into the nursing workforce: A double hermeneutic study
(Elsevier, 2014-04)Background: Variations in nursing practice and communication difficulties pose a challenge for the successful integration into the workforce of immigrant nurses. Evidence for this is found in cultural clashes, interpersonal ... -
Factors influencing clinicians' attitudes about aggression in Australian acute old age psychiatry inpatient units: a cross sectional survey design
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-06-25)Patient aggression occurs in old age psychiatry and is problematic. The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence clinicians’ attitudes toward aggression in old age psychiatry. Eighty-five individuals, ... -
Factors influencing decision-making around family presence during resuscitation: a grounded theory study
(WIley, 2016-07-19)Aim The aim of this study was to examine factors impacting family presence during resuscitation practices in the acute care setting. Background Family presence during resuscitation was introduced in the 1980s, so ... -
Family carers of older adults (Letter to the editor)
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Family Law as a determinant of child health and welfare: Shared parenting, breastfeeding and the best interests of the child
(e-Content Management, 2009)In July 2006 the Australian Government introduced the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 (Cth) (the Shared Parental Responsibility Act 2006) which puts in place a legal presumption of shared ... -
Fathers and breast feeding very-low-birthweight preterm babies
(Elsevier, 2009)Objective: to explore fathers’ experiences of the breast feeding of their very-low-birthweight preterm babies from birth to 12 months of age. Design: a qualitative study using interpretive phenomenology. Data ... -
Feasibility, acceptability and diagnostic test accuracy of frailty screening instruments in community-dwelling older people within the Australian general practice setting: a study protocol for a cross-sectional study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-08-01)Introduction Frailty is one of the most challenging aspects of population ageing due to its association with increased risk of poor health outcomes and quality of life. General practice provides an ideal setting for the ... -
Fibroblasts derived from oesophageal adenocarcinoma differ in DNA methylation profile from normal oesophageal fibroblasts
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-06-13)Oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) is increasing in incidence and has a poor prognosis. Tumour derived fibroblasts (TDFs) differ functionally from normal fibroblasts (NDFs), and play a pivotal role in cancer. Many of the ... -
FIRE (Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence): a study protocol
(BioMed Central, 2012-03-27)Background Research evidence underpins best practice, but is not always used in healthcare. The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework suggests that the nature of evidence, the ... -
Five-year review of absconding in three acute psychiatric inpatient wards in Australia
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Flinders Medical Centre Early Links Evaluation Report: Final Report March 2007
(2016-05-06)There is international evidence to support early intervention strategies with families and children, that improve longer term outcomes for health. There is also evidence that supports the provision of appropriate services ... -
The forgotten victims: Prisoner experience of victimisation and engagement with the criminal justice system: Key findings and future directions
(Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety Limited (ANROWS), 2018-08)Many women in prison have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). As this form of violence is often intergenerational and entrenched, women in prison are widely considered to be at particular risk of ongoing victimisation ... -
Fragmentation in Australian Commonwealth and South Australian State policy on mental health and older people: A governmentality analysis
(SAGE Publications, 2016)Mental health care for older people is a significant and growing issue in Australia and internationally. This article describes how older people’s mental health is governed through policy discourse by examining Australian ... -
A framework to research the social determinants of ICTs for e-health
(Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training (Canada), 2015)This article discusses the challenges of combining significantly different methodological approaches to investigate citizens' access to e-health. We define the term access beyond broadband connectivity (material access), ... -
From the nurses' station to the health team hub: How can design promote interprofessional collaboration?
(Informa Healthcare, 2012-01)Interprofessional practice implies that health professionals are able to contribute patient care in a collaborative environment. In this paper, it is argued that in a hospital the nurses’ station is a form of symbolic ... -
Gamete donor medical records: whose information is it?
(MJA Publishing Group, 2012)This year, the Law Reform Committee of the Parliament of Victoria released recommendations from an inquiry into various aspects of donor conception, including the ability of donor-conceived people to access identifying and ... -
GATTACA and genetic determinism
(Elsevier, 2018-08-16)Gattaca (1997) is a film that depicts a world in “the not-so-distant future” where naturally conceived humans are labelled as in-valids or de-gene-erates. In-valids form the lower class of society, while genetically selected ...