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- 2Estabrooks, Carole Anne
- 2King, Kathryn Margaret.
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Spring 2013
Immigrant women have many emotional, psychological, and/or cultural stressors that may influence their health. For some women, these stressors may only be present during the acculturation process, but for others they may continue throughout the remainder of their lives. Focused ethnography, as...
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Exploring the prevalence of serious mental illness among Albertans living with peripheral arterial disease who have undergone a lower limb amputation
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a chronic disease that may lead to severe consequences including loss of lower limb. With a known relationship between chronic disease and mental illness, it is paramount to establish the prevalence of mental illness to guide the development of strategies that...
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Exploring the Unplanned and Unpredictable Factors Affecting Home Care Nurse Case Manager Workload
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the unplanned and unpredictable factors that affect home care nurse case manager workload. Two papers comprise this thesis. The first paper is an integrative literature review that focused on developing a more clear understanding of how the unplanned and...
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Exploring understandings and/or knowledge of maternity nurses in caring for immigrant/refugee women of African origin
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Background: A variety of factors may interplay between nurses and maternity clients of diverse ethnic origins to disrupt effective ethnocultural care encounters. Study Aim/Research Questions: The aim of this study was to explore maternity nurses care experiences with African immigrant/refugee...
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Exploring Urban Pakistani Muslim Midlife Women’s Experiences of Menopause: A Focused Ethnography Study
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Midlife women experience physiological changes. These changes are mainly related to the pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal symptoms that have an impact on their physical and psychological well-being and their general quality of life. Midlife women from diverse cultures differ in behaviours,...
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Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography
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Background and Aim Disaster relief camps are one of the most vulnerable settings where women are at risk of discontinuing their breastfeeding practices. Although challenges associated with continued breastfeeding during disasters and displacements are prevalent globally, they are particularly...