• 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 ...
• Explaining plagiarism for nursing students: An educational tool 

  Goodwin, John; McCarthy, Joan (Elsevier Inc., 2020-05-14)

  Plagiarism is a concern among nursing students. Students may sometimes plagiarise intentionally; however, students also plagiarise unintentionally, as they demonstrate a poor understanding as to what constitutes plagiarism. ...
• Care accommodation in the acute care setting: Missed care or not? 

  O'Donnell, Claire; Andrews, Tom (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020-04-07)

  To explain how nurses care for patients with stroke in the acute setting, when working within constraints. Internationally, healthcare environments are experiencing constraints such as reduced staffing levels, lack of time ...

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