• Nebulous intentioning – Acute hospital nurses’ struggle to deliver core nursing care 

  Lane, Aoife; Landers, Margaret; Andrews, Tom (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2020-09-29)

  Aim: To explore the influences on nursing practice in acute hospital care. Design: A Classic Grounded Theory study. Methods: Data collection (2013–2015) was through interviews and non‐participant observations. Analysis was ...
• Development and validation of the Spirituality Instrument-27© (SpI-27©) in individuals with chronic illness 

  Weathers, Elizabeth; Coffey, Alice; McSherry, Wilfred; McCarthy, Geraldine (Elsevier Inc., 2020-07-13)

  Aim: To develop and validate the Spirituality Instrument 27 (SpI-27©) in individuals with chronic illness (n = 249). Background: A need for a rigorously developed spirituality instrument that can be used with people who ...
• Ethical frameworks for quality improvement activities: An analysis of international practice 

  Naughton, Corina; Meehan, Elaine; Lehane, Elaine; Landers, Ciara; Flaherty, Sarah Jane; Lane, Aoife; Landers, Margaret; Kilty, Caroline; Saab, Mohamad M.; Goodwin, John; Walshe, Nuala; Wills, Teresa; McCarthy, Vera; Murphy, Siobhan; McCarthy, Joan; Cummins, Helen; Madden, Deirdre; Hegarty, Josephine (Oxford University Press, 2020-08-14)

  Purpose: To examine international approaches to the ethical oversight and regulation of quality improvement and clinical audit in healthcare systems. Data sources: We searched grey literature including websites of national ...
• Moral distress: Feeling compelled to do the wrong thing 

  McCarthy, Joan (Japan Nursing Ethics Association, 2020-03-20)

  Moral distress is a conceptual tool that brings the emotional landscape of the moral realm to the fore and draws attention to the socio-political and contextual features of moral agency. This essay gives a brief history ...
• Evaluation of an emergency department Falls Pathway for older people: A patient chart review 

  O'Keeffe, Anne; O'Grady, Sile; Cronin, Finola; Dolan, Clodagh; O'Hea, Ann; O'Shea, Katie Louise; Naughton, Corina (Elsevier Ltd., 2020-04-27)

  The number of older adults presenting to EDs following a fall continues to rise, yet falls management often ignores opportunities for secondary falls risk reduction. Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) in EDs have an ...

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