Debbie Goode

Ulster University · School of Nursing

The numbers of older people in society are rising, as are the numbers of people with co-/multimorbidities and polypharmacy, factors that can impact the complexity of care for older people. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) environment is a complex, noisy and busy setting for older people. The reasons why older people attend EMS are primarily car...

Objective Researchers have used various theories and models to understand technology adoption, however, with the growing interest and availability of mobile applications (apps) for people living with dementia, it is desirable to have a broader insight into how technology adoption may be further improved. This paper aims to explore the factors influ...

Background: For many older people the emergency department (ED) is an important but sometimes difficult step in their healthcare journey. They often attend the ED with co and multi morbidities. Discharge home at evenings and weekends when post-discharge support services are limited can result in a delay or failure to follow through on their discha...

Background: There are challenges to person-centred care provision in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) settings. The environment is often busy and noisy which can influence the experience of older people and their carer/partners when they attend emergency departments. Older people with mental health needs are a vulnerable group of people who are at...

Background This research reports on a pilot study that examined the usability of a reminiscence app called ‘InspireD’ using eye tracking technology. The InspireD app is a bespoke digital intervention aimed at supporting personalized reminiscence for people living with dementia and their carers. The app was developed and refined in two co-creation w...

Older adults present to emergency medical services with a multitude of clinical and functional needs due to polypharmacy and multipathology. Older adults with mental health needs require additional time for the more comprehensive assessment required as a result of their underlying mental health condition. This article compares the time spent in eme...

Objectives: The exponential rise of social media (SoMe) has transformed how people connect, learn, and network. The use of SoMe in health education is in its infancy. The objective of the review was to examine the use of SoMe by healthcare students, professionals and educators to ascertain if the use of SoMe enhanced the learning experience. Desi...

Background: The need to provide quality end-of-life care is universally accepted. International research and policies encourage innovative ways that effective culturally appropriate care can be provided. Higher education institutions and practice settings are tasked with ensuring that nurse graduates have the knowledge, skills and insight to deliv...

Background and context: The structure of higher education departments tends to be hierarchical or, at the other extreme, characterised as ‘a galaxy of individual stars’ (Handy, 1993 p 190). Ours was no exception. However, changes in the way nursing education was provided, internal growth and development followed by a period of austerity, presented...

This article presents findings from the first phase of a two-part study that examined the knowledge and experience of emergency department (ED) staff who work with people with mental health needs. In the first part of the study, 19 semi-structured interviews were conducted with multidisciplinary team (MDT) members and the results were analysed. The...

Common measures to establish spinal immobilisation at the scene of an accident include keeping the patient's head still, applying a rigid cervical collar and transporting the patient on a rigid spinal board to an emergency department. This article reviews the literature about spinal immobilisation practices in emergency settings, including best-pra...

Sleep deprivation within intensive care units (ICU) remains a recurring norm despite the extensive research highlighting a crucial need for sleep promotion. However, the degree to which sleep deprivation can be associated with the nurses' provision of care remains unclear. Therefore, this critical literature review aims to explore the nurses' knowl...

Background: Developing person-centred cultures is a key focus of practice development. To do so requires engagement with learning approaches that are creative and critical. In preparing students for a future as person-centred practitioners, educators need to engage with creative approaches to the facilitation of learning. National standards in nurs...

Informal carers have a pivotal role in caring for patients who have had a stroke. Research has shown that informal carers have unmet information, psychological and social needs. There is a lack of research about how informal carers in Northern Ireland manage the role of caring for a patient who has experienced stroke, and what kind of support they...

The transfer of information between nurses from emergency departments (EDs) and critical care units is essential to achieve a continuity of effective, individualized and safe patient care. There has been much written in the nursing literature pertaining to the function and process of patient handover in general nursing practice; however, no studies...

Physical stresses related to the transport of the critically ill: opt/mal nursing m a n a g e m e n t Jo H a r d i n g ° FRCNA, MACCCN, RN MN, GC Critical Care Ng., GC Retrieval & PreHosp. T r a u m a Ng., Cert. Grief Counsellg., Cert. Adv. T r a u m a Mgt. Abstract: The critically ill patient's physical well being is constantly at risk. This fragi...

With the introduction of the Patient’s Charter, greater emphasis has been placed on ‘named nursing’ (Department of Health 1991). While there is much literature extolling the benefits of this method of delivering care to patients (Reed 1988; Manley 1989; Macguire 1991); there is a dearth of empirical studies exploring primary nursing in an adult int...