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2014-11-19
Trish Chatterly, Public Services Librarian, Liaison Librarian to Pharmacy, Kendall Roark, Council of Library & Information Resources Postdoctoral Scholar, Dagmara Chojecki, IHE Reserach Librarian, Thane Chambers, Faculty of Nursing Research Librarian, Linda Slater, Public Services Manager, Liaison Librarian to Nursing & Rehabilitation Medicine
The library and its librarians can do far more than simply ensure you have access to the articles and books you need for your research. University of Alberta librarians gave a panel presentation about some of the supports available those writing grant applications including: -Systematic review...
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Fall 2013
There is a general agreement that a relationship exists between health literacy (HL) and health outcomes. Nonetheless, there are critical gaps in the measurement of HL and in the evidence on the impact of inadequate HL on health outcomes, especially in the diabetes population. These gaps need to...
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Fall 2013
There is a general agreement that a relationship exists between health literacy (HL) and health outcomes. Nonetheless, there are critical gaps in the measurement of HL and in the evidence on the impact of inadequate HL on health outcomes, especially in the diabetes population. These gaps need to...
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Health promotion and quality of life among mothers of preadolescents: A focused ethnography
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Pasco, A.C.Y., Olson, J., Luduena, A.
Focused ethnography was used to identify beliefs, values and practices of Health Promotion and Quality of Life among mothers of preadolescents in Argentina. This study described how they influence their preadolescents’ choices and protect them from risk behaviors. Data were collected from a...
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Health promotion and quality of life among mothers of preadolescents: A focused ethnography study in Timbo/SC-Brazil
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This is a focused ethnography study of 10 preadolescents’ mothers who participate in OASE (Help Group of Evangelic Women) in Timbó, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The purpose of the study was to describe variances in patterns of health promotion, quality of life and preadolescents’ risk behavior from...
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Identification of nursing assessment models/tools validated in clinical practice for use with diverse ethnocultural groups: an integrative review of the literature
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Mollell, O., Richter, S., Ortiz, Y., Young, S., Higginbottom, G.M.A., Mogale, S.
Background: High income nations are currently exhibiting increasing ethno-cultural diversity which may present challenges for nursing practice. We performed an integrative review of literature published in North America and Europe between 1990 and 2007, to map the state of knowledge and to...
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2012
Barnard, D., Norton, P. G., Batra-Garga, N., Cummings, G. G., Estabrooks C. A., Cranley, L. A.
Background: In Canada, healthcare aides (also referred to as nurse aides, personal support workers, nursing assistants) are unregulated personnel who provide 70-80% of direct care to residents living in nursing homes. Although they are an integral part of the care team their contributions to the...
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Spring 2012
Background: Demographics in residential care facilities for the aged have changed, such that residents are older, more functionally dependent, more cognitively impaired upon admission, and more of the elderly are entering these facilities with some or all of their natural dentition, rather than...
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Spring 2016
Researchers in the fields of psychology and business have studied workplace bullying since the 1980s, and more recently it has gained attention in the healthcare arena. It is of specific interest to nurses, as nurses are reported to have the highest prevalence rates among health professionals....
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Spring 2013
Immunogenicity of intramuscular influenza vaccine is suboptimal in organ transplant recipients although intradermal vaccine may be superior by targeting dermal dendritic cells to stimulate a response. 229 patients were randomized to IM or high-dose ID vaccine during the 2010-11 season. Pre- and...