Browsing Nursing and midwifery - Collected Works by Title
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Necessary but Not Sufficient…; Comment on “Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Organizations: A View From the Resource-Based View of the Firm”
(International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM), 2015-12)The challenge of mobilizing knowledge to improve patient care, population health and ensure effective use of resources is an enduring one in healthcare systems across the world. This commentary reflects on an earlier paper ... -
A new frontier for nursing: the service-practice gap
(Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, 2015-06)Pressures to avoid hospital admissions, improve service delivery, facilitate cost effectiveness and enhance access to healthcare services have led to the development of expert nursing roles. -
No Place Like Home
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Non-Traditional Roles of Iranian Senior Nurse Managers in Developing the Profession: A Qualitative Study
(Vice Chancellor for Research, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, 2013-07)Background The traditional roles of managers are insufficient in today’s evolving healthcare market. Therefore, they need to improve management practices through playing new roles. So the present study aimed to explore the ... -
Nurses and midwives perceptions of missed nursing care – A South Australian study
(Elsevier, 2014-09)Background Budgetary restrictions and shorter hospital admission times have increased demands upon nursing time leading to nurses missing or rationing care. Previous research studies involving perceptions of missed care ... -
Nurses' experiences of restraint and seclusion use in short-stay acute old age psychiatry inpatient units: a qualitative study
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015-03)Accessible summary While the decision to use restraint and seclusion was not taken lightly, nurse participants felt that there were no effective alternatives to the use of these measures. Adverse interpersonal, ... -
Nursing students' perceptions of a clinical learning assessment activity: ‘Linking the puzzle pieces of theory to practice’
(Elsevier, 2019-03-13)The nursing profession struggles with providing a bridge to close the theory to practice gap for students. Students are expected to graduate with competencies that promote their safe and comprehensive nursing care provision ... -
Nursing students’ perceptions of the qualities of a clinical facilitator that enhance learning
(Elsevier, 2017-01)There is a wealth of research investigating the role of the clinical facilitator and the student experience of clinical education. However, there is a paucity of recent research reviewing the students' perspectives of ... -
Occurrence of lactational mastitis and medical management: a prospective cohort study in Glasgow
(2008)Background Lactational mastitis is a painful, debilitating condition that if inappropriately managed, may lead women to discontinue breastfeeding prematurely. The aim of this paper is to report the incidence of mastitis ... -
Older people and disaster preparedness: a literature review
(Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, 2012-07)Anecdotally, older people are considered to be vulnerable to emergency events, from the preparation phase, through the response, and into the recovery phase. This article provides an overview of disaster research literature ... -
An oral history of Japanese nursing: voices of five senior nurses who experienced nursing since the 1950s
(eContent Management Pty Ltd, 2002)The history of nursing cannot be considered separately from the history of women. In this study the public history of nursing and women was re-explored via the lived voices of five senior nurses in Japan. An oral history ... -
Paramedic perceptions of their role, education, training and working relationships when attending cases of mental illness
(Paramedics Australasia, 2009)Mentally ill patients comprise a growing proportion of the workload of paramedics. This descriptive and exploratory study identifies issues in relation to their perception of workload, education and training, organisational ... -
Parent’s Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Body Mass, and Chronic Disease Status Is Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in Young Adults: A Preliminary Study
(MDPI, 2019-05-19)We sought to determine if there was an intergenerational association between parental weight, cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), and disease status, with the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) in their young adult o ... -
PARIHS revisited: from heuristic to integrated framework for the successful implementation of knowledge into practice
(BioMed Central, 2016-03-10)Background The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services, or PARIHS framework, was first published in 1998. Since this time, work has been ongoing to further develop, refine and test it. Widely used ... -
A pedagogy-driven approach to the design of a medical abbreviations videogame: Brevissima
(Japan Association for Language Teachers Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group, 2012)This paper explores the development of a computer-assisted language learning game which teaches medical abbreviations. We use a pedagogy-driven approach which starts from a detailed specification of the language needs as ... -
People hospitalised on acute psychiatric wards report mixed feelings of safety and vulnerability
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-04-08)Commentary on: Stenhouse RC. ‘Safe enough in here?’: patients’ expectations and experiences of feeling safe in an acute psychiatric inpatient ward. J Clin Nurs 2013;22:3109–18. Implications for practice and research - ...