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2014-04-28
Slides for the April 28th presentation at the Collaborative Faculty Development Conference in Alberta. Overview included student & instructor responses to learning to write from Years 1 to 4 and implications for undergraduate nursing education. Discussion of faculty development included issues of...
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2013-06-02
(with Anita Liao and Sarah McCracken, Faculty of Nursing.) June 24, 2013. Conference of Canadian Association for the Schools of Nursing (CASN) held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We present findings of the kinds of assignment-specific writing supports that enable undergraduate nursing students to...
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Doing Gender: A Descriptive Study of Male Nursing Students' Experiences of Reflective Journaling
Download2013-06-02
(with Ian Chenier, Faculty of Nursing.) An undergraduate research study, funded by the University of Alberta Research Initiative (URI), and supervised by me. This was an exploratory study of questions posed by male nursing students learning to write reflectively in a predominately female...
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Emerging Conversations: Tutors and Students Speak Out on First-Year Writing in Nursing Education
Download2013-03-09
Anita Liao, Ian Chenier, Sarah McCracken, Susan Chaudoir
Sarah McCracken, Susan Chaudoir, Ian Chenier, & Anita Liao. Paper presented at the 5th Research Showcase, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. March 16, 2013. Participants of the study of writing in nursing education co-presented preliminary findings from year...
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Framing the difficulties resulting from implementing a participatory management model in a public hospital.
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Évora, Y.D., Bernardes, A., Gabriel, C. S., Cummings, G. G.
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to address difficulties reported by the nursing team during the process of changing the management model in a public hospital in Brazil. METHODS: This qualitative study used thematic content analysis as proposed by Bardin, and data were analyzed using the theoretical...
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Misunderstanding the Assignment: First-Year Students and the Anxieties of Teaching in One Clinical Course
Misunderstanding the Assignment: First-Year Students and the Anxieties of Teaching in One Clinical Course
Download2013-02-18
Findings from my doctoral study of how students learned to write their first-year clinical course, and focuses on teaching and learning issues in first-year writing.
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Misunderstanding the Assignment: First-Year Students and the Anxieties of Teaching in One Clinical Course
Download2013-02-18
(with Dr. Gerri Lasiuk & Katherine Trepanier, Faculty of Nursing). Presentation at the 2013 Western and Northern Region Colleges and Schools of Nursing (WNRCASN) Conference. Focuses on relationship of anxiety to the learning process in first-year students and how anxieties disconnect the...
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Misunderstanding the Assignment: First-Year Students and the Anxieties of Teaching in One Clinical Course (HANDOUT)
Download2013-02-22
HANDOUT for above presentation. Includes: (1) a snapshot of reported anxieties, expectations, and assumptions of participating first-year students and teachers; (2) research-based suggestions of how to reduce anxieties in your teaching classroom; and (3) selected references.
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2012
Estabrooks, C. A., Cummings, G. G., Wagg, A., Bottorff, J. L., Lynch, S. L., Abel, S. L., Bissell, L., Norton, P. G., Robinson, C. A., Lee, J. S., Masaoud, E., Cummings, G. E., Rowe, B. H., Reid, R. C.
Background Changes in health status, triggered by events such as infections, falls, and geriatric syndromes, are common among nursing home (NH) residents and necessitate transitions between NHs and Emergency Departments (EDs). During transitions, residents frequently experience care that is...
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Stories of chronic kidney disease: Listening for the unsayable.
2013
Makaroff, K. L., Sheilds, L., Molzahn, A.
Aims: To explore individuals’ stories of chronic kidney disease, particularly those aspects of experience that are difficult to discuss using language (i.e., unsayable). Background: Chronic kidney disease is continuous, but it is also life-threatening and sometimes people ask difficult questions...