Ruth Taylor

• Anglia Ruskin University

Aims Identify strategies and resources for nurse leaders to use to lead with empathy and prudence to improve quality of care and to ease the psychological toll on nurses caring for patients with COVID‐19. Background In a 2020 report, clinicians caring for patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic said their healthcare leaders needed to: ‘hear me, prot...

Background Nurses describe work-related distress and exhaustion as compassion fatigue and burnout. However, neuroscientists confirm compassion does not cause fatigue. Aim This discussion paper explains contemporary social neuroscience evidence about empathy, emotion regulation, and compassion, then discusses evidence-informed strategies to cultiva...

With global demand for healthcare services increasing exponentially, it has never been more important to demonstrate clinical effectiveness to achieve the best outcomes for patients, clients, service users and carers, while also ensuring value for money. The role of research is to inform these outcomes and identify the efficacy of specific interven...

Background: Healthcare that is technically excellent, but without compassion, fails to meet the expectations of patients. Ample evidence about teaching compassion to nursing students in classrooms exists; however, few studies report online teaching. Aim: This study explored final year nursing students' perceptions of compassion and practising compa...

Background Women in Scotland with uncomplicated pregnancies are encouraged by professional bodies and national guidelines to access community based models of midwife-led care for their labour and birth. The evidence base for these guidelines relates to comparisons of predominantly urban birth settings in England. There appears to be little evidence...

Background: There is an increasing global demand for higher education to incorporate flexible delivery. Nursing education has been at the forefront of developing flexible online education and offering programs ‘anywhere and anytime’. In response to calls to teach compassion in nursing education, there is an abundance of literature concerning classr...

Background: There is an increasing global demand for higher education to incorporate flexible delivery. Nursing education has been at the forefront of developing flexible online education and offering programs 'anywhere and anytime'. In response to calls to teach compassion in nursing education, there is an abundance of literature concerning classr...

It is now well accepted that working in research teams that span universities, jurisdictions and countries can be rewarding and economically prudent. To this end, investigators collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge to address human and societal problems and translate results into local and global contexts. This implies that investigators need to...

Background: This paper presents the main findings from a project that aimed to evaluate selection processes for the recruitment of student nurses and midwives. Objectives: The main objectives were to: Design The evaluation was designed principally to achieve explanation, with multiple case study methodology adopted as the main approach. Within t...

This article highlights the growing need for primary healthcare practitioners to develop good networks in what is an evolving healthcare environment. Delivery of direct care is changing rapidly in the UK, as are the ways in which the health service is run. Networks are groups and individuals that a practitioner links into in a variety of ways to en...

The Florence Nightingale Foundation offers scholarships in travel, research and leadership for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. An evaluation revealed scholars considered the programmes of great value, allowing them the opportunity to develop personally and professionally.

Service-user involvement is a growing aspiration for health professionals and those involved in nursing education. This article describes one approach to integrating theory and practice through service-user involvement in a teaching setting. Gwen Carter, a student nurse, tells her story of becoming a patient and how reflecting on this experience af...

The article develops a theoretical argument relating to the first year experience of nursing students based on the findings from a PhD study. A 'Connections Continuum' is a tool that was developed from its qualitative and quantitative findings. The tool aims to describe the aspects of a nursing student's first year experience that are of consequenc...

The recent interest in wisdom in professional health care practice is explored in this article. Key features of wisdom are identified via consideration of certain classical, ancient and modern sources. Common themes are discussed in terms of their contribution to ‘clinical wisdom’ itself and this is reviewed against the nature of contemporary nursi...

The issue of student attrition (where students leave a programme of study for any reason) is maintaining a high profile across the higher education sector and is a key concern for those delivering nurse education. Many authors have pointed out the cause for concern that student nurse attrition raises and its impact on the higher education instituti...

OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS The aim of the research is to explore the first year experiences of two groups of undergraduate student nurses. The research takes a holistic approach to the investigation of the first year experience. In part, a curriculum change is used as a way to find out about the first year experience, with the research looking at how t...