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2011

Hollis, V., McCormack, B., Cohen, J., Low, G., Birch, S., Mohankumar, D., Armstrong, P., Francke, A. L., Williams, A., Wilson, D. M., Froggatt, K.

2011

Covell, Christine L., Manojlovich, Milisa, Antonakos, Cathy L., Sidani, Souraya

Background: Inconsistent findings in over 100 studies have made it difficult to explain how variation in nurse staffing affects patient outcomes. Nurse dose, defined as the level of nurses required to provide patient care in hospital settings, draws on variables used in staffing studies to...

2006

Caufield, C., Radunz, V., Gilbert, J., Olson, J.

This manuscript describes a multicentric research experience in the area of nursing and health. It briefly outlines the aims of the first International Program for Nurses to Study the Drug Phenomenon in the Americas, which brought eleven nursing professors from seven Latin American countries...

2012

Dawkins, P., Kahwa, E., Mill, J., Etowa, J., Hepburn,C., Richter, M.S., Muller, C.E.

Background: A multidisciplinary team of 20 researchers and research users from six countries – Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa – are collaborating on a 5-year (2007–12) program of research and capacity building project. This program of research situates nurses as leaders...

2010

Whitty-Rodgers, J., Dyck, N., Ezer, H., Thorne, S., Bowen, D., Bot, H., Crooks, D., Molzahn, A. E., Medves, J.

2013

Wall, S.

In Canada, as well as internationally, efficiency-focused organizational restructuring in healthcare has resulted in stressful job change for nurses, although nurses continue to work in a system that values technology-based, physician-provided services. Employed nurses have had to participate in...

2012

Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Hutchinson, A., Cummings, G.G., Cranley, L.A., Bostrom, A.M.

Background: This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Provinces. The overall goal of TREC is to improve the quality of care for older...

2012

Hutchinson, A. M., Cranley, L. A, Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P. G., Cummings, G. G., Bostrom, A. M.

Background This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Provinces. The overall goal of TREC is to improve the quality of care for older...

2012-11-16

Covell, Christine L., Sidani, Souraya

Aims: This paper presents the operationalization of concepts in the nursing intellectual capital theory and the results of a methodological study aimed to empirically validate the concepts. Background: The nursing intellectual capital theory proposes the stocks of nursing knowledge within an...

2013-03-05

Covell, Christine L., Sidani, Souraya

Aims: To test selected propositions of the middle-range theory of nursing intellectual capital. Background: The nursing intellectual capital theory conceptualizes nursing knowledge’s influence on patient and organizational outcomes. The theory proposes nursing human capital, nurses’ knowledge,...