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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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Moral Distress in Pediatric Intensive Care Nurses: Experiences with the Death and Dying of Child Patients
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Background: Moral distress has been commonly understood in the literature to be when one knows the right thing to do but being unable to realize it. Research has indicated the consequences of such an experience can deeply affect the individual. Critical care areas are fraught with ethical issues...
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Adult Children Perceptions of the Quality of Hospital Care Received by Their Advanced-Age Parents at the End of Life: A Sequential Mixed Methods Approach
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Dying advanced-age adults (85+) are at risk of receiving suboptimal end-of-life (EOL) care in hospital, as they are often not recognized as dying. Their children may have important perspectives on quality advanced-age hospital-based EOL care. The aim of this study was to develop a theory of...
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Facilitators and Barriers to Breastfeeding Practices of Internally Displaced Mothers Residing in Disaster Relief Camps in Pakistan: A Critical Ethnography
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Background and Aim Disaster relief camps are one of the most vulnerable settings where women are at risk of discontinuing their breastfeeding practices. Although challenges associated with continued breastfeeding during disasters and displacements are prevalent globally, they are particularly...
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Spring 2019
This study examined the experiences, perspectives and opinions of people who work at the Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The Crosstown Clinic is the only program of its kind in North America, providing injectable heroin and hydromorphone to people with an entrenched opioid addiction....
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Prevalence, Characteristics, and Unmet Needs of Unbefriended Residents in Alberta Long-Term Care Homes
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Background: Older adults who lack decision-making capacity and a willing or able surrogate to act as their representative are defined as unbefriended. These unbefriended older adults often require a public guardian and reside in long-term care (LTC) homes. Unbefriended LTC residents are at risk...
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Systems of Inequity: Representations of Immigrants, Refugees, and Newcomers in Canada's National Housing Strategy
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Housing insecurity and homelessness in Canada have significant implications in the lived experiences of people. It is estimated that on any given night in Canada, approximately 35,000 people experience homelessness; further, estimates of 235,000 people experience homelessness in a given year...
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Spring 2019
In the now vast literature on healthcare workforce utilization, the discourse on nursing team memb ers’ role contribution has mainly centered on the use of healthcare institutional goals and quantitative outcomes measures such a s healthcare cost, patients’ morbidity and mortality...
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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...