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- 2Estabrooks, Carole Anne
- 2King, Kathryn Margaret.
- 2Kunyk, Diane
- 2Lemermeyer, Gillian
- 2Moore, Katherine N.
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Fall 2021
Birth decisions have a significant impact on the physical health of a woman and her child as well as to a woman’s mental and emotional health. Healthy low-risk women who birth with a physician in a hospital have statistically significantly higher odds of having interventions like augmentation and...
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Fall 2020
Background: Nurses are increasingly being challenged to preserve compassion while providing care in technologically rich practice environments. While compassion has been examined in the broader nursing literature and much work has been done to enhance nurses’ informatics competency, little is...
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Spring 2020
BackgroundPatients in Alberta report significantly lower levels of satisfaction than the national average in terms of physical comfort, coordination and integration of care, information, communication and education. As a result, patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) were developed into a tool...
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Access to Reproductive Health Care for Internally Displaced Women in Northern Nigeria: A Critical Ethnography
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In Nigeria, Boko Haram terrorists and Herdsmen have forcibly displaced over one million women from their homes. These women are living in precarious circumstances with limited access to essential services. Grey literature shows that displaced women are predisposed to rape and unintended...
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Sustainability Failures: The Challenge of Sustaining the NP Role and Other Innovations in Primary Health Care
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Background: Sustaining innovations in health systems is a topic of increasing importance to stakeholders interested in creating sustainable primary health care (PHC) reform. The Nurse Practitioner (NP) role, a PHC innovation, was initially introduced in Canada in the 1970s and re-implemented with...
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Fall 2020
Around the world, cancer is a leading cause of death and the burden of cancer is expected to increase in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), where 82% of the world’s population resides. In these countries, which include Pakistan, aspects of the culture and traditions, inaccessibility to...
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Exploring Acute Care Nurses' Decision-Making in Psychotropic PRN Use in Hospitalized People with Dementia
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This qualitative descriptive study used semi-structured interviews to explore how acute care nurses decide to administer “as needed” (PRN) psychotropic medication to hospitalized people with dementia. Eight nurses from three acute care units in a large tertiary hospital in Western Canada were...
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Who is Using Non-Invasive Ventilation? A Descriptive Study Examining the Population Enrolled in a Pediatric Non-Invasive Ventilation Program
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The use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in infants and children is increasing. This thesis examined the population of infants and children enrolled in a quaternary pediatric hospital’s NIV program with the goal of describing the clinical characteristics of that population over a one-year...
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Evaluating the Implementation of Child Nutritional Policies: A Case Study of the Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in Ghana
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Abstract Malnutrition is a global issue with major public health implications. Close to half of all child deaths in developing countries are attributed to malnutrition. Under-five mortality rate is persistently high in Ghana where mortality rates stand at 47.9 per 1000 live births. Malnutrition...
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Understanding the Experience of Choice: An Interpretive Description Exploring the Experiences of Family Caregivers
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Over the last 20 years, policy has moved towards more patient-centered healthcare. Choice has been at the forefront of this agenda, including policy that outlines care for older persons. Currently, minimal research explores how choice is experienced by family caregivers helping older persons...