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Nursing Practice and Context: The Relationship Between the Hospital Setting and Environmentally Responsible Practice
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to answer the following question: What are Albertan nurses’ beliefs related to climate change, health, and nursing practice, and how is their ability to practice in an environmentally responsible manner influenced by their workplace setting? Background: Climate...
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The Process of Senior Nursing Student-Patient Connection: Student and Clinical Nursing Faculty Perceptions
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The process of senior nursing student-patient connection: Student and clinical nursing faculty perceptions Abstract Background: With the current national shortage of nurses, technical aspects of nursing practice are emphasized, often to the detriment of relational aspects of patient...
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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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Navigating the Jungle: An Investigation of Older Adults’ Quests for Governmental Information
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Government information interactions are inevitable at many points in our lives; life events and milestones often intersect with the need for governmental programs and services information that will help or facilitate the resulting life transitions. This qualitative research study takes a...
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Nursing in Sri Lanka: Situating a Study of Nurses' Intent to Leave or Stay in an Organization within the Contexts of Professional Issues and Nurse Migration
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Aluwihare-Samaranayake, Dilmi S
ABSTRACT Retention of nursing staff is a worldwide concern. Inadequate workforce planning, resource constrained undersupply of new nurses, underdeveloped recruitment, retention and return policies, poor incentive and career support structures and complex quality of work-life environments compete...
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Functional Mobility of Community-Dwelling Older Persons: An Ethnographic Pre-Feasibility Study
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The purpose of this pre-feasibility study was two-fold: first, to examine perceptions and experiences of mobility challenges in the urban Brazilian community-dwelling older persons; second, to examine study participants’ perceptions about a sit-to-stand activity. The method of exploration was...
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Fall 2017
In this paper based dissertation, experiences of people who are/were homeless in Japan were explored using narrative inquiry. Treating narratives as storied phenomena under study, narrative inquiry is considered both as a research methodology and as a way of understanding human experiences...
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An assessment of the state of measurement science underpinning research utilization in nursing
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Background: Nurses’ use of research findings is essential to the provision of quality patient care. As a result, a need to better understand how to implement research into nursing practice has emerged, triggering requirements for its measurement. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to...
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Behind the Mask: A Narrative Inquiry into Operating Room Nurses' Experiences of Patient Safety
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The delivery of safe care is an expectation and a central concern of individuals using the healthcare system, particularly for those who find themselves as patients in hospitals. Healthcare researchers' reports and discussions of harm while receiving hospital services speak to the global...
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A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Transitions into and out of Alberta Correctional Facilities for People Living with HIV
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In this monograph-style thesis, experiences of transitions into and out of Alberta correctional facilities for people living with HIV were explored using narrative inquiry. The inquiry is informed by my experiences of working as a registered nurse within an Alberta correctional facility: the...