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A Focused Ethnography to Explore Nursing Faculty Experiences in Integrating Digital/Informatics Tools to Support Undergraduate Students’ Learning and the Development of Informatics Competencies
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Background: Nurses working in today’s contemporary health care environment are expected to use a variety of digital/informatics tools when providing direct care. These tools are increasingly essential to improve data management and consequently patient and system outcomes. Nursing faculty,...
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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...
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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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Fall 2020
There is evidence indicating that grief experiences and support available to women who experience perinatal loss has not been well investigated in Ghana. In particular the emotional and psychological impact of the loss, the ability of women and their family members to flexibly mourn their lost...
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Exploring Urban Pakistani Muslim Midlife Women’s Experiences of Menopause: A Focused Ethnography Study
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Midlife women experience physiological changes. These changes are mainly related to the pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal symptoms that have an impact on their physical and psychological well-being and their general quality of life. Midlife women from diverse cultures differ in behaviours,...
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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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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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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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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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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...