Doody, Owen; Bailey, Maria E.(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2011)
While the term specialist in nursing can be traced to the turn of the 20th Century, it is only since 2001 that a framework was developed for a clinical career pathway in Ireland. This framework has promoted the development ...
Doody, Owen; Doody, Catriona M.(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2012)
Traditionally, nurses have been over-managed and led inadequately, yet today they face
unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Organisations constantly face changes that require an increasingly adaptive and flexible ...
Doody, Owen; Slevin, Eamonn; Taggart, Laurence(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2012)
Focus groups are used by researchers in the social and behavioural sciences to explore
phenomena and are accepted as a legitimate qualitative methodology. The primary goal of focus groups is to use interaction data resulting ...
van Tilburg, Wijnand A.P.(University of Limerick, 2011)
This thesis by publication documents the results of a three year PhD research
project investigating boredom. Even though boredom is a common experience that has
been suggested to hold major implications for life and ...
Deenihan, Jeremiah Timothy(University of Limerick, 2012)
Sport Education (SE) (Siedentop, Hastie, & van der Mars, 2011) is a curriculum and instructional model for physical education that has received a wealth of research attention (Hastie, de Ojeda, & Luquin, 2011; Kinchin, ...
Kinsella, Elaine Louise(University of Limerick, 2012)
This thesis documents a PhD research project, conducted over three years, that
investigates the important features and functions associated with heroes. This
programme of research was designed to add to the scant literature ...
Effective school-university partnerships can enhance a pre-service teachers’ (PST)
experience and encourage experienced teachers to become cooperating teachers (CT).
International literature alludes to the lack of ...
Background: To ensure the right of the child with an intellectual disability to grow up in the family home is maintained, this study explores mothers ability to overcome the many challenges to the provision of care so as ...
Background: There is a paucity of research profiling the anthropometric measures and physical performance indicators of hurling athletes. Such profiles are essential to optimising the physical preparation structures of ...
This thesis consists of three papers taking a sequential approach to the problem of groin/ hip injury in rugby union (RU). Firstly the literature surrounding the identification of groin/ hip injury risk factors in field ...