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 ...

Objective: To explore the influence of the Amulet artwork and exhibition on midwifery students’ perceptions of caring for parents experiencing perinatal death. Design: A descriptive qualitative design involving face-to-face ...

Aim and objectives To explore families’ perceptions of the contribution of clinical nurse specialists in intellectual disability nursing in Ireland. Background Clinical nurse specialists roles have developed ...

Aim and objectives: To describe family caregiver’s perceptions of a palliative day-care service. Background: An emphasis on homecare for patients with advanced disease has meant that family caregivers’ have greater ...

Role transition can be both challenging and exciting. This study presents the findings of phase one of a two-part study conducted by Deasy et al (2011), which explored final-year student nurses’ (n=116) perceptions and ...

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 ...

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: Primary: To identify whether follow up by healthcare professionals or lay organisations at any time affects the psychological ...

Background: Medication safety is an integral aspect of patient safety. Nurses, as advocates of patient safety, actively consider medication safety in the course of their daily work. Hence, it is important to consider the ...

People with an intellectual disability are living longer, and the numbers continue to rise. Ireland has and is seeing a dramatic change in the age profile of clients and the support services they require. While Ireland had ...

Objectives: To synthesise the existing published literature on general practitioners (GP)'s knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) with a view to ...