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Publications (32)
Aim:
To identify and review published literature on the perceptions and experience of nurses working with RAS.
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Robotic assisted surgery (RAS) is rapidly becoming accepted as the elite modality for surgery since its introduction in the 1980 s, more recently there has been a rising trend of use with several specialities operating using...
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The use of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) has increased considerably since its introduction in 2001, with RAS now being widely accepted as a surgical modality. Current literature surrounding RAS focuses on the surgical team's experience rather than the patient's perspective, with limited qualitative research on post-RAS patient experie...
Developing a deeper understanding of factors that influence learning and teaching in widening culturally diverse learning environments is necessary in proactively planning supports and pedagogical approaches that encourage integration, intercultural understanding and respect for cultural difference. This qualitative descriptive study reports on the...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that its Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has resulted in significant reductions in morbidity and mortality. Despite its proven success, meaningful compliance with the Surgical Safety Checklist initiative has been low.
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The authors sought to identify and explore published research...
Dr Kathleen Markey, Annabel Ogbuagu and Dr Brid O'Brien discuss the need for cultural humility when providing perinatal mental healthcare to migrant women.
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The aim of this study was to describe students' experiences during a 15-week semester involving clinical placement in an Irish university.
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Internationalization is promoted and facilitated through study abroad initiatives within nurse education. Collaborations were developed between one university in the United States, an Irish u...
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To present the theory of resigning in supporting nurse managers in dealing with nurses' ethical challenge of caring.
Background:
In a COVID-19 era, nurses continue to be ethically challenged in maintaining safe patient care. Nurse Managers play a critical role supporting staff in responding to the complexities of working in, under resour...
The expanding cultural diversity of nursing classrooms provides a fertile learning environment for meaningful intercultural learning that can support cultural competence development. However, navigating culturally diverse learning environments and planning intercultural inclusive learning opportunities is not without its challenges. Facilitating in...
Background
A lack of standardisation of documentation accompanying older people when transferring from residential to acute care is common and this may result in gaps in information and in care for older people. In Ireland, this lack of standardisation prompted the development of an evidence based national transfer document.
Objectives
To pilot a...
Perioperative setting registered nurse first assistants (RNFAs) are described as non-medical practitioners who perform surgical interventions during surgery. They provide medical care to perioperative patients under the supervision of a consultant surgeon. First assistants in surgery can be an expanded perioperative nursing role. A review of the li...
With the mounting reports of culturally insensitive care and the reported challenges nurses experience when caring for culturally diverse patients, developing the intercultural readiness of nursing students is a necessity. However, little is known as to the success of cultural competence educational interventions in undergraduate nursing curricula...
With an ageing global community and widening socio-cultural diversity, nurse educators are increasingly challenged to align responsive undergraduate nursing curricula to rapidly changing healthcare environments. In future-proofing nurse education, educators need to collectively examine ways of interconnecting and developing gerontological and cultu...
Reflective practice is a learning strategy supporting preregistration nursing and midwifery students in meeting everyday clinical practice challenges. This paper reports on a development and innovation evaluation using a qualitative approach exploring students' experiences of guided group reflection organised during fourth year undergraduate intern...
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To examine factors influencing final year nursing/midwifery students’ intentions to migrate following graduation.
Background
With expanding global staff shortages, effective recruitment and retention strategies targeted at new nursing/midwifery graduates are necessary. Understanding factors that influence graduates’ decisions to migrate or re...
Surgical techniques have greatly changed and advanced with the advent of robot-assisted surgery (RAS). Patient outcome measures for RAS generally focus on patient morbidity and mortality, surgical complications, and hospital length of stay; there is limited research on patients' perceptions of RAS. Researchers conducted an integrative literature re...
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Higher Education Institutes are experiencing a widening cultural diversity of student populations and campus communities. With expanding globalisation, growing international education initiatives and increasing incoming international postgraduate student numbers, the cultural diversity of the classroom will continue to magnify. The expa...
This paper focuses on an innovation and development of a guided reflective approach currently offered at a university in Ireland. Significant collaborative structures and processes were created and implemented in providing guided protected reflective time for fourth year pre-registration BSc Nursing and Midwifery students. This initiative is explor...
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There is an increasing number of older persons experiencing transfer episodes between residential and acute care facilities (Griffiths et al. 2014). Current transfer documentation is diverse; often only containing basic information and very little person centred patient information. The objective of this HSE National Clinical Programme f...
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The transition of older persons between care settings is recognised as a particularly critical and vulnerable period (Renom-Guiteras et al. 2014). Appropriate documentation and processes are key in assisting the provision of quality, safe, person-centred care when transferring older persons from residential to acute care settings. This p...
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Globally, government and higher education institutions are expected to increase international student numbers. Programme development, marketing international collaboration and management has been the focus of strategy roll out.
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This study aimed to explore international student experiences while undertaking Master of Science postgra...
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To develop and expand how nurses promote safety in perioperative settings.
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This article presents orchestrating a sub-core category from the theory of anticipatory vigilance in promoting safety within preoperative settings (O' Brien 2018). Orchestrating explains this and involves effective planning, delegating, co-cordinating and...
Aims and objectives:
This study has aimed to examine key stakeholders' perspectives, views and experiences regarding transfer documents, used when an older person is being transferred from a residential to an acute care setting. The objective of the study was to inform, in part, the development of an effective national transfer document.
Backgrou...
In the past 20 years there has been an exponential growth in the nursing profession in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). In 1998 The Commission on Nursing (Government of Ireland) recommended all graduate education for entry to the profession and paved the way for much‐needed clinical career pathways and ongoing professional development for nurses. To...
Background: Higher education institutes are witnessing an increase in the cultural and ethnic diversity of their student population. While this adds to the learning experience, there is a dearth of evidence examining how students on nursing programmes, from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds learn with and from each other. There is need for...
In Ireland nursing and midwifery degree programmes involve four pathways to registration. Three of which, intellectual disability and mental health nursing and midwifery require students to undertake acute medical/surgical placements offering learning opportunities caring for patients with complex needs in settings beyond their core discipline. Thi...
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To explore and explain how nurses minimise risk in the perioperative setting.
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Perioperative nurses care for patients who are having surgery or other invasive explorative procedures. Perioperative care is increasingly focused on how to improve patient safety. Safety and risk management is a global priority for health services in...
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This paper describes the experiences of underrepresented BSc nursing students in realising the dream of becoming a nurse in one university. In the past ten years, pre-registration nurse education has become established within higher education in Ireland. This development includes promoting access and inclusion of students from traditio...
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To explore nurses' use of the World Health Organization safety checklist in the perioperative setting.
Background:
Promoting quality and safety in health care has received worldwide attention. The World Health Organization surgical safety checklist (2009) is promoted for reducing postoperative morbidity and mortality. The checklist has been...
This study looked to speak and listen to nurses working in the perioperative setting to identify and resolve their main challenges and concerns. Perioperative nursing is defined as the care of the patient before, during and immediately after surgery and has a rich history. Being at the frontline of care, the challenges and concerns nurses continual...
