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Care accommodation in the acute care setting: missed care or not?

O'Donnell, Claire; Andrews, Tom (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

Abstract Aim To explain how nurses care for patients with stroke in the acute setting, when working within constraints. Background Internationally, health care environments are experiencing constraints such as reduced ...

Caring for an older person with dementia in the Emergency Department (ED): an appreciative Inquiry exploring family member and ED nurse experiences

Watkins, Sarah Anne; Murphy, Fiona A.; Kennedy, Catriona; Dewar, Belinda; Graham, Margaret M. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

.Aims and objectives: To generate insights about what matters and is valued by family members of older people with dementia in the Emergency Department. To explore the experiences of emergency nurses looking after older ...

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 ...

Challenges towards a Connected Community Healthcare Ecosystem (CCHE) for managing long-term conditions

Carroll, Noel; Kennedy, Catriona; Richardson, Ita (International Society for Gerontechnology, 2016)

Background Societal, demographic and economic changes have encouraged us to reconsider how we deliver health and social care to older people and their families in our communities. The emergence of ‘Connected Health’ ...

Challenging performativity in higher education: promoting a healthier learning culture

Deasy, Christine; Mannix 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 ...

Clinical placements in intellectual disability nurse education: A scoping review

Doody, Owen; Murphy, Louise; Moloney, Mairéad (Elsevier, 2020)

Intellectual disability undergraduate nurse education is provided in partnership between third level institutes and healthcare providers. The changing healthcare landscape has resulted in a reduction of the number of ...

Clinical unity and community empowerment: the use of smartphone technology to empower community management of chronic venous ulcers through the support of a tertiary unit

Quinn, Edel Marie; Corrigan, Mark A.; O'Mullane, John; Murphy, David; Lehane, Elaine A.; Leahy-Warren, Patricia; Coffey, Alice; McCluskey, Patricia; Redmond, Henry Paul; Fulton, Greg J. (Public Library of Science, 2013)

Background: Chronic ulcers affect roughly 60,000 Irish people, at a total cost of J600,000,000, or J10,000 per patient annually. By virtue of their chronicity, these ulcers also contribute a significant burden to tertiary ...

Conducting a pilot study: case study of a novice researcher.

Doody, Owen; Doody, Catriona M. (Mark Allen Healthcare, 2015)

Pilot studies play a vital role in health research, but are often misused, mistreated and misrepresented. A well-conducted pilot study with clear aims and objectives within a formal framework ensures methodological rigour, ...

The contribution of ethnography to understanding nursing work: a comparative review of three nursing ethnographies

Murphy, Fiona A.; Griffiths, Pauline; Merrell, Joy (Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia, 2014)

Introduction: This methods paper examines ways in which ethnography and in particular the ethnographic method of participant observation, informs understanding of the reality of nursing work. Methods: The relevance of ...

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 ...

Cultivating ethical leadership in the recovery of COVID-19.

Markey, Kathleen; Ventura, Carla Aparecida Arena; Donnell, Claire O'; Doody, Owen (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

Aim To propose the necessity of fostering ethical leadership in the recovery of COVID‐19. Background Supporting physically and emotionally exhausted nurses, whilst ensuring quality standards of care delivery in the ...

Data set for paper titled: Psychological distress and coping amongst higher education students: A mixed method enquiry.

Deasy, Christine; Coughlan, Barry; Jourdan, Didier; Pironom, Julie; Mannix McNamara, Patricia (PLOS ONE, 2014)

This is the data set for the article titled “Psychological distress and coping amongst higher education students: A mixed method enquiry”. Published online in PLOS ONE. The data was collected in the 2010/2011 academic year. ...

Developing support for intellectual disability practice – Nursing Network in Intellectual Disabilities Ireland (NNIDI)

Doody, Owen; Danaher, Therese (Frontline Magazine Ltd., 2012)

The development of clinical nurse specialist roles in Ireland

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 ...

The development of clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) in intellectual disability nursing in Ireland

Doody, Owen; Slevin, Eamonn; Taggart, Laurence (Sage Publications Ltd.,, 2012)

Since the commencement of intellectual disability nurse training in 1959, both education and service provision philosophies have changed over time in Ireland. These changes have occurred in response to national and ...

Development of nursing quality care process metrics and indicators for intellectual disability services: a literature review and modified Delphi consensus study

Doody, Owen; Murphy, Fiona A.; Lyons, Rosemary; Gallen, Anne; Ryan, Judy; Downey, Johanna; Sezgin, Duygu (BMC, 2019)

BACKGROUND: Nursing process quality care metrics and indicators are quantifiable measures of the nursing care delivered to clients. They can be used to identify and support nurses' contribution to high quality, safe, client ...

The development of nursing quality care process metrics and indicators for use in older persons care settings: A Delphi-consensus study

Murphy, Fiona A.; Doody, Owen; Lyons, Rosemary; Gallen, Anne; Nolan, Mary; Killeen, Angela; Kavanagh, Paula; Donegan, Joan; Sezgin, Duygu (Wiley and Sons Ltd.,, 2019)

AIM: To develop a suite of nursing quality care process metrics and indicators for older persons care settings in Ireland. BACKGROUND: Regulatory investigations of health system failures highlight non-adherence to ...

Discursive constructions of professional identity in policy and regulatory discourse

Fealy, Gerard M.; Hegarty, Josephine; 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 ...

Double-tap interaction as an actuation mechanism for on-demand cueing in parkinson’s disease

Sweeney, Dean; Quinlan, Leo R.; Richardson, Margaret; Meskell, Pauline; ÓLaighin, Gearóid (MDPI, 2019)

Freezing of Gait (FoG) is one of the most debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and is an important contributor to falls. When the management of freezing episodes cannot be achieved through medication or surgery, ...

The effect of stress on health and its implications for nursing

O'Donovan, Regina; Doody, Owen; Lyons, Rosemary (Mark Allen Healthcare, 2013)

Stress is an important issue within nursing and it is difficult to find agreement among those who are expert in the area regarding a concise definition of stress. Nevertheless stress is seen as a negative feeling affecting ...

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