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Self-employed nurses as change agents in healthcare: strategies, consequences, and possibilities
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Purpose: This article reports on ethnographic research that investigated how self-employed nurses perceive the contemporary healthcare field, what attributes they possess that facilitate their roles as change agents, what strategies they use to influence change, and what consequences they face...
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2011
Slaughter, S., Bostrom, A.M., Cummings, G.G., Morgan, D.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Squires, J.E.
Background: Defining what constitutes a resident care unit in nursing home research is both a conceptual and practical challenge. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence in support of a definition of care unit in nursing homes by demonstrating: (1) its feasibility for use in data collection,...
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The intellectual structure and substance of the knowledge utilization field: A longitudinal author co-citation analysis, 1945-2004
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Lavis, J., Estabrooks, C.A., Derksen, L., Scott, S., Wallin, L., Profetto-McGrath, J., Winther, C.
Background: It has been argued that science and society are in the midst of a far-reaching renegotiation of the social contract between science and society, with society becoming a far more active partner in the creation of knowledge. On the one hand, new forms of knowledge production are...