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“You need to be double cultured to function here”: toward an anthropology of Inuit nursing in Greenland and Nunavut
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Working towards an anthropology of nursing, I explore what it means to become and be an Inuit nurse, using as a lens the experiences and voices of Greenlandic and Canadian Inuit nurses and nursing students who are educated and practice in settings developed and governed by Southerners (Danes and...
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Fall 2014
Work engagement in nursing practice is critically important to consider in addressing key challenges of health systems, including the global nursing shortage, pressures to reduce health care spending, and increasing demands for quality care and positive outcomes for patients. There is a...
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Spring 2011
Camargo Plazas, Maria del Pilar
Chronic disease is the largest cause of death in the world. Yet little is known about how globalization forces affect the body and the experience of someone who is chronically ill. The need for specialized knowledge of subjective data is significant as it will assist us to improve our...
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Fall 2023
In Canada, the adoption of Patient and Family Centred Care (PFCC) initiatives for adult patient populations across hospital care settings are thought to improve quality of care, safety, and cost effectiveness. However, PFCC strategies have been reported to be difficult to implement and sustain at...
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Fall 2023
Thump Thump. Swoosh, swoosh. Kamlamunikk. Heart. Mi’kmaq teachings of heart are tied to concepts such as moontime, spirits, ancestors and blood knowledge. Being a Mi’kmaq woman from the west coast of Newfoundland with strong lifelong community connection I was aware that the understanding of...
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The social-psychological process involved in using human patient simulators as a teaching/learning modality in undergraduate nursing education
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The use of the high-fidelity human patient simulator (HPS) based clinical scenario in undergraduate nursing education is a powerful learning tool well suited to modern students’ preference for immersive construction of knowledge through the provision of contextually rich reality-based practice...
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Fall 2009
Over the past three decades, the HIV epidemic has gained a stranglehold in sub-Saharan Africa, where 10% of the world’s population comprises more than 60% of all people living with the disease. Recent initiatives to boost prevention and treatment interventions are beginning to yield modest but...
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The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis
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The effectiveness of secondary prevention (SP) for coronary heart disease (CHD) is well established. The poor integration of evidence into clinical practice remains problematic, in part due to the poor description of trials evaluating these programs. As a result, knowledge users remain unclear...