All Outputs (106)

Nursing and healthcare students' experiences and use of e-learning in higher education (2010)
Journal Article

Aim. This paper presents research on nursing and healthcare students' experiences and use of e-learning. Background. The inception of e-learning in higher education is supported by a policy background and technological developments, yet little is kno... Read More about Nursing and healthcare students' experiences and use of e-learning in higher education.

It’s the final countdown… (2010)
Journal Article

So this is it. After nearly 10 years as editor I am hanging up my red pen and emptying my email box. (I know its 10 years as I measure against my youngest duaghter who had recently celebrated her birthday and was a breastfeeding baby when i started;... Read More about It’s the final countdown….

Are first year undergraduate student nurses prepared for self-directed learning? (2010)
Journal Article

Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Changing demands on the nursing workforce have led to considerable changes in undergraduate nurse education. Nurse educators have sought to incorporate self directed learning (SDL) into the curriculum to encourage student nurse... Read More about Are first year undergraduate student nurses prepared for self-directed learning?.

Interprofessional research: A complex process (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research into interprofessional issues i n health and social care, in the UK and elsewhere, is located within a context in which successful interprofessional collaboration is viewed as a sine qua non of effective service delivery. Over the last two... Read More about Interprofessional research: A complex process.

Strategies to prevent unintentional injuries among the under-15s (2010)
Other

Does psychopharmacology training enhance the knowledge of mental health nurses who prescribe? (2010)
Journal Article

The implementation of Mental Health Nurse (MHN) prescribing in the UK remains disappointing. A much cited critique of MHNs prescribing is that it would be unsafe, as MHN would not have the appropriate knowledge of pharmacology to practise mental heal... Read More about Does psychopharmacology training enhance the knowledge of mental health nurses who prescribe?.

Collaboration with patients in the design of patient reported outcome measures: Capturing the experience of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (2010)
Journal Article

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) need to include concepts and language relevant to patients and be easily understood. These studies aimed to develop draft PROMs to measure rheumatoid arthritis (RA) fatigue and its impact by collaborating wit... Read More about Collaboration with patients in the design of patient reported outcome measures: Capturing the experience of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis.

The challenge of contributing to policy making in primary care: The gendered experiences and strategies of nurses (2010)
Journal Article

This paper explores nurses' experiences as members of primary care organisations set up to develop and commission health services for local communities. Nurses, alongside GPs and other health professionals, were given a place on the governing bodies... Read More about The challenge of contributing to policy making in primary care: The gendered experiences and strategies of nurses.

Time spent studying on a pre-registration nursing programme module: An exploratory study and implications for regulation (2010)
Journal Article

European Union (EU) regulations require that university programmes are of specified duration. Additional EU regulations apply specifically to university based nurse education, enacted in the UK by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). However, lit... Read More about Time spent studying on a pre-registration nursing programme module: An exploratory study and implications for regulation.

The ethnography of help - Supporting families with children with intellectual disabilities (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This thesis explored parents’ of children with learning disabilities perceptions of family support workers’ helping strategies. A qualitative approach drawing on the principles of ethnography was used to explore the experiences of six families of the... Read More about The ethnography of help - Supporting families with children with intellectual disabilities.

Identifying barriers and facilitators to home safety interventions for the families of pre-school children (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Advanced directives and suicidal behaviour: "If in doubt treat" is not as easy as it sounds (2010)
Journal Article

Value dissonance in nursing: Making sense of disparate literature (2010)
Journal Article

Supporting Inter Professional Learning in Practice: Final project report (2010)
Report

An exploratory, randomized controlled trial of adherence therapy for people with schizophrenia (2010)
Journal Article

Poor adherence limits the effectiveness of antipsychotic treatment in people with psychosis. The aim of the pragmatic, exploratory, single-masked trial conducted in the USA was to explore the efficacy, acceptability, and satisfaction with adherence t... Read More about An exploratory, randomized controlled trial of adherence therapy for people with schizophrenia.

Midwifery basics: Blood tests for investigating maternal wellbeing (2010)
Journal Article

'Blood tests for investigation maternal wellbeing' is the 10th series of 'Midwifery basics'. The aim of these articles is to inform and encourage readers to seek further information through a series of activities related to this topic.

Gender identity: Challenges to access social and health care services for lesbians in Nepal (2010)
Journal Article

Literature about same-sex love and sexuality in Nepal is rare. However, limited anecdotal evidence on these issues signals that the health and social care needs of lesbians in Nepal are high. This qualitative study explores the challenges faced by le... Read More about Gender identity: Challenges to access social and health care services for lesbians in Nepal.

Journey to greener pastures: Oral histories of migrant Filipino nurses in Canada (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This invited presentation provided an overview of the findings of this study.

Barriers and facilitators to injury prevention work with parents: a qualitative interview study (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Questioning social justice as a shared nursing value (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation questions the assertion, contained in a variety of nursing literatures that nurses should (normatively), or must (as regulation), accept social justice as a shared nursing value. Thus, problematically, many normative social justice... Read More about Questioning social justice as a shared nursing value.