• Ageing family carers experiences of future planning for their adult family member with an intellectual disability living at home 

  Cummins, Rebecca (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Increased childhood survival of people with complex physical needs, health and medical technology advances, greater recognition and diagnosis of autism and increasing life expectancy of the world’s population have all ...
• Challenging performativity in higher education: promoting a healthier learning culture 

  Deasy, Christine; Mannic McNamara, Patricia (Intech, 2017)

  The nature and context of education have changed dramatically in recent decades. The increased prioritisation of standardisation, performance indicators and metrics often means that holistic, affective and wellbeing ...
• Midwifery students experiences of their clinical internship: a qualitative descriptive study 

  Bradshaw, Carmel; Murphy-Tighe, Sylvia; Doody, Owen (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background Globally the safety of mothers and babies is fundamental in maternity care. Central to ensuring this safety is appropriate preparation of midwifery students' to ensure graduates are equipped to assume the ...
• Nursing and midwifery quality care-metrics: intellectual disability services research report to OMNSD 

  Murphy, Fiona A.; Doody, Owen; Lyons, Rosemary; Sezgin, Duygu (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This report presents the findings of a Nursing and Midwifery Quality Care Metrics project for Intellectual Disability (ID) Services in Ireland. The aim of the project was to identify a final suite of nursing quality care ...
• Older persons services nursing quality care metrics final report to ONMSD. 

  Murphy, Fiona A.; Doody, Owen; Lyons, Rosemary; Sezgin, Duygu (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This report presents the findings of a Nursing and Midwifery Quality Care-Metrics project for Older Persons Services (OPS) in Ireland. The aim of the project was to identify a final suite of nursing quality care process ...
• Discursive constructions of professional identity in policy and regulatory discourse 

  Fealy, Gerard M.; Hegarty, Josephine-Mary; McNamara, Martin; Casey, Mary; O'Leary, Denise; Kennedy, Catriona; O'Reilly, Pauline; O'Connell, Rhona; Brady, Anne-Marie; Nicholson, Emma (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Aim To examine and describe disciplinary discourses conducted through professional policy and regulatory documents in nursing and midwifery in Ireland. Background A key tenet of discourse theory is that group ...
• General practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes and experiences of managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: protocol of a mixed methods systematic review and meta-ethnography 

  Jennings, Aisling A.; Foley, Tom; Walsh, Kieran A.; Coffey, Alice; Browne, John P.; Bradley, Colin P. (BioMed Central, 2018)

  Background: In the context of rising dementia prevalence, the workload of general practitioners (GPs) in dementia care is set to increase. However, there are many aspects of dementia care that GPs find challenging. ...
• Coping and help in birth: an investigation into 'normal' childbirth as described by new mothers and their attending midwives 

  Dara, Susanne; Murphy, Fiona A. (Elsevier, 2016)

  Objective: to investigate how 'normal' childbirth is described by new mothers and their attending midwives.Design: a qualitative, reflexive, narrative study was used to explore birth stories using in-depth, unstructured ...
• 'Seeking authorization': a grounded theory exploration of mentors' experiences of assessing nursing students on the borderline of achievement of competence in clinical practice 

  Cassidy, Simon; Coffey, Michael; Murphy, Fiona A. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2017)

  Aim. To develop a substantive theoretical explanation of how mentors make sense of their experiences where nursing students are on the borderline of achievement of competence in clinical practice.Background. The reluctance ...
• Planned birth at or near term for improving health outcomes for pregnant women with gestational diabetes and their infants (Review) 

  Biesty, Linda M.; Egan, Aoife M.; Dunne, Fidelma; Dempsey, Eugene; Meskell, Pauline; Smith, Valerie; Ni Bhuinneain, Meabh G.; Devane, Declan (Wiley and Sons Ltd., Cochrane Collaboration, 2018)

  Background Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Women with gestational diabetes are more likely to experience adverse health outcomes such as pre-eclampsia or polyhydramnios (excess ...
• Exploring nurses’ experiences of using hand massage to alleviate anxiety for individuals with dementia in residential settings 

  Larkin, Ann (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Patients with dementia living in residential settings may have complex health needs and have reduced capacity to communicate these needs. In such circumstances, attention to presence and touch and more specifically hand ...
• Nursing documentation in palliative care: an integrative review 

  Doody, Owen; Bailey, Maria E.; Moran, Sue; Stewart, Kate (Herbert Publications Ltd, 2018)

  Purpose: Nursing documentation is essential in ensuring communication between team members, continuity of care and evidence based practice. The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesiseresearch pertaining to nursing ...
• Challenges in accessing and interviewing participants with severe mental illness 

  Newman, Daniel; O'Reilly, Pauline; Lee, Siew Hwa; Kennedy, Catriona (RCN Publishing, 2017)

  Background Interviews are widely used in qualitative research to collect data. However, little has been written about interviewing people with severe mental illness (SMI). Aim To report and analyse an experience of ...
• Exploring nursing staff views of responsive behaviours of people with dementia in long-stay facilities 

  Clifford, C.; Doody, Owen (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Introduction: Caring for people with dementia and responsive behaviours can challenge nurses, and little is known of their experiences. Aims: To explore nurses’ views of supporting people with dementia and responsive ...
• Resigned indifference: the importance of cultural competence education 

  Markey, Kathleen; Tilki, Mary; Taylor, Georgina (2017)

  This paper presents the findings of a PhD study, which explored how nurses' deal with their main concern when caring for patients from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Utilising theoretical sampling and the principles ...
• Nurses, midwives and key stakeholders experiences and perceptions on requirements to demonstrate the maintenance of professional competence: an Irish study 

  Casey, Mary; Cooney, Adeline; O'Connell, Rhona; Hegarty, Josephine-Mary; Brady, Anne-Marie; O'Reilly, Pauline; Kennedy, Catriona; Heffernan, Elizabeth; Fealy, Gerard M.; McNamara, Martin; O'Connor, Laserina (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2016)

  Aim: To present the qualitative findings from a study on the development of scheme(s) to give evidence of maintenance of professional competence for nurses and midwives. Background: Key issues in maintenance of professional ...
• Employing a qualitative description approach in health care research 

  Bradshaw, Carmel; Atkinson, Sandra; Doody, Owen (SAGE Publications, 2017)

  A qualitative description design is particularly relevant where information is required directly from those experiencing the phenomenon under investigation and where time and resources are limited. Nurses and midwives often ...
• Attitudes and practices of Irish hospital-based physicians towards hand hygiene and handrubbing using alcohol-based hand rubs, a comparison between 2007 and 2015. 

  Kingston, Liz M.; Slevin, Barbara L; O'Connell, Nuala H.; Dunne, Colum P. (Elsevier, 2017)

  Background: Hand hygiene is the cornerstone of infection prevention and control practices, and reduces healthcare-associated infections significantly. However, international evidence suggests that medical doctors demonstrate ...
• An exploration of health care professionals' experiences of participating in and leading a quality improvement collaborative in the University of Limerick hospitals 

  Murphy, Fiona A.; O'Brien, Brid; Barry, Maebh (National Leadership and Innovation Centre for Nursing and Midwifery (NLIC), 2016)

  This report provides the findings of a qualitative descriptive study exploring the experiences of nurses, midwives and other health care professionals involved in three Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QICs). These were ...
• Exploring nurses' use of the WHO safety checklist in the perioperative setting 

  O'Brien, Brid; Graham, Margaret M; Kelly, Mary (Wiley and Sons Ltd.,, 2017)

  Aim To explore nurses' use of the World Health Organization safety checklist in the perioperative setting.BackgroundPromoting quality and safety in health care has received worldwide attention. The World Health Organization ...

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