Browsing Nursing and midwifery - Collected Works by Title
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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 - ... -
The perceived complexity of vocational workplace rehabilitation and its implications for supervisor development
(Shannon Research Press, 2003-03)This study explored the factors that influence the perceived complexity of vocational rehabilitation tasks and the abilities of workplace supervisors and rehabilitating employees to carry out rehabilitation in the workplace. ... -
Perceptions of Heat-Susceptibility in Older Persons: Barriers to Adaptation
(MDPI, 2011-12-19)The increase in the frequency of very hot weather that is a predicted consequence of climate change poses an emerging threat to public health. Extreme heat can be harmful to the health of older persons who are known to be ... -
Perceptions of nurses working with psychiatric consumers regarding the elimination of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric inpatient settings and emergency departments: An Australian survey
(Wiley, 2018-07-18)Seclusion and restraint continue to be used across psychiatric inpatient and emergency settings, despite calls for elimination and demonstrated efficacy of reduction initiatives. This study investigated nurses’ perceptions ... -
Personal, professional, structural and cultural challenges to autonomous practice - a midwife's perspective
(Australian Nursing Federation (SA Branch), 1996-11)This paper examines the status and some of the issues surrounding autonomous midwifery practice in South Australia in 1996. It is based on the author's reflections and lived experience as an intermittently self-employed ... -
Perspective Taking and Empathy: Does Having Similar Past Experience to Another Person Make It Easier to Take Their Perspective?
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-09-01)This study tested the hypothesis that it is easier to take the perspective of another person when one has similar past experience. Volunteer participants (N = 154) were asked to take the perspective of a protagonist in one ... -
Perspectives of Frailty and Frailty Screening: Protocol for a Collaborative Knowledge Translation Approach and Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Understandings and Experiences Mandy M.
(BioMed Central, 2017-04-17)Background Accompanying the unprecedented growth in the older adult population worldwide is an increase in the prevalence of frailty, an age-related clinical state of increased vulnerability to stressor events. This ... -
Physiological parameters, location of infection and organ failure are significant predictors of misdiagnosing severe sepsis
(BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com, 2007-09-26)Severe sepsis and septic shock are common disease processes in the critically ill and are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. The importance of the early identification and diagnosis of severe sepsis has ... -
Positioning for acute respiratory distress in hospitalised infants and children
(Neonatal Paediatric and Child Health Nursing, 2011)An association has been established between prone positioning and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) which has lead to the recommendation that young infants be positioned supine. Yet, the prone position has been shown to ... -
A predictive model identifying latent variables, which influence undergraduate student nurses' achievement in mental health nursing skills.
(Shannon Research Press, 2001-11)A hypothetical model is developed to examine factors influencing nurses' achievement in a range of mental health nursing skills. The latent variables examined fall in four broad areas including the students': background ...