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Sustaining the education workforce in healthcare: Challenges for the future (2012)
Journal Article
Rosser (nee Girot), E., & Albarran, J. W. (2012). Sustaining the education workforce in healthcare: Challenges for the future. Nurse Education Today, 32(1), 32-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2011.01.009

Aim: The aim of the study was to scope education staff capacity to meet the future needs of the healthcare workforce in practice across South West (SW) England. Background: As individual nations come to terms with the impact of the incurred global de... Read More about Sustaining the education workforce in healthcare: Challenges for the future.

Wernicke's aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke's aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia (2012)
Journal Article
Robson, H., Sage, K., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2012). Wernicke's aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke's aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 50(2), 266-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.021

Wernicke's aphasia (WA) is the classical neurological model of comprehension impairment and, as a result, the posterior temporal lobe is assumed to be critical to semantic cognition. This conclusion is potentially confused by (a) the existence of pat... Read More about Wernicke's aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke's aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia.

Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia (2012)
Journal Article
Robson, H., Keidel, J. L., Lambon Ralph, M. A., & Sage, K. (2012). Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 50(2), 276-288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.022

Wernicke's aphasia is a condition which results in severely disrupted language comprehension following a lesion to the left temporo-parietal region. A phonological analysis deficit has traditionally been held to be at the root of the comprehension im... Read More about Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia.

A contemporary functional analytic account of perspective taking (2012)
Book Chapter
McHugh, L., Stewart, I., & Hooper, N. (2012). A contemporary functional analytic account of perspective taking. In L. McHugh, I. Stewart, & M. Williams (Eds.), The Self and Perspective Taking; Contributions and Applications from Modern Behavioral Science (55-71). US: New Harbinger

Made to measure? Assessing feasibility of quality indicators for district nursing (2012)
Journal Article
Horrocks, S., Cook, J. R., Ashton, N., & Wye, L. (2012). Made to measure? Assessing feasibility of quality indicators for district nursing. British Journal of Community Nursing, 17(1), 28 -34

Scant empirical information exists regarding the quality of district nursing (DN) services. This article reports the testing of 31 quality indicators (QI) in practice. Method: Twelve DN teams provided patient notes for audit. External auditors c... Read More about Made to measure? Assessing feasibility of quality indicators for district nursing.

Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings (2012)
Journal Article
Sandoz, E. K., Hooper, N., Ashton, J., Clarke, A., & McHugh, L. (2012). Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings. Eating Behaviors, 13(1), 62-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2011.10.002

Handling food cravings seems to play a major role in weight management. Many try to simply avoid cravings. However, avoidance based techniques like thought suppression can make attempts to deal with cravings more difficult. Recent research suggests t... Read More about Comparing thought suppression and acceptance as coping techniques for food cravings.

Using phonemic cueing of spontaneous naming to predict item responsiveness to therapy for anomia in aphasia (2012)
Journal Article
Sage, K. E., Conroy, P. J., Snell, C., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2012). Using phonemic cueing of spontaneous naming to predict item responsiveness to therapy for anomia in aphasia. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 93(1 SUPPL.), S53-S60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2011.07.205

Using phonemic cueing of spontaneous naming to predict item responsiveness to therapy for anomia in aphasia. Anomia refers to difficulties retrieving words and is 1 of the most common symptoms of aphasia and hence often the target of therapy. The pri... Read More about Using phonemic cueing of spontaneous naming to predict item responsiveness to therapy for anomia in aphasia.

Is the use of an invitation letter effective in prompting patients with severe mental illness to attend a primary care physical health check? (2012)
Journal Article
Hardy, S., & Gray, R. (2012). Is the use of an invitation letter effective in prompting patients with severe mental illness to attend a primary care physical health check?. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 13(4), 347-352. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423612000023

Annual physical health checks are recommended for patients with severe mental illness (SMI) as this group has a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease than the rest of the general population. There is little guidance for healthcare professi... Read More about Is the use of an invitation letter effective in prompting patients with severe mental illness to attend a primary care physical health check?.

Professional autonomy, collaboration with physicians, and moral distress among European intensive care nurses. (2012)
Journal Article
Karanikola, M. N., Papathanassoglou, E. D., Kalafati, M., Giannakopoulou, M., Lemonidou, C., & Albarran, J. (2012). Professional autonomy, collaboration with physicians, and moral distress among European intensive care nurses. American Journal of Critical Care, 21(2), 41-52. https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2012205

Discretionary autonomy is a key factor in enhanced patient outcomes and nurses' work satisfaction. Among nurses, insufficient autonomy can result in moral distress. To explore levels of autonomy among European critical care nurses and potential assoc... Read More about Professional autonomy, collaboration with physicians, and moral distress among European intensive care nurses..

Alterations in peripheral muscle contractile characteristics following high and low intensity bouts of exercise (2012)
Journal Article
Morris, M. G., Dawes, H., Howells, K., Scott, O. M., Cramp, M., & Izadi, H. (2012). Alterations in peripheral muscle contractile characteristics following high and low intensity bouts of exercise. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 112(1), 337-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-011-1970-8

The aim of this study was to monitor muscle contractile performance in vivo, using an electrical stimulation protocol, immediately following an acute high and low intensity exercise session conducted at the same average intensity performed on a cycle... Read More about Alterations in peripheral muscle contractile characteristics following high and low intensity bouts of exercise.

Mental health nurses' attitudes towards the physical health care of people with severe and enduring mental illness: The development of a measurement tool (2012)
Journal Article
Robson, D., Haddad, M., Gray, R., & Gournay, K. (2012). Mental health nurses' attitudes towards the physical health care of people with severe and enduring mental illness: The development of a measurement tool. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 49(1), 72-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2011.07.011

Background: It is well established that people with schizophrenia and related serious mental illnesses die prematurely and have significantly higher medical co-morbidity compared with the general population. Mental health nurses have a key role in im... Read More about Mental health nurses' attitudes towards the physical health care of people with severe and enduring mental illness: The development of a measurement tool.