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Nursing Regulator To Develop New Standards For Nursing Education
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:00:00 -0700
A new framework for pre-registration nursing education is to be developed with a view to ensuring that the new nurse of tomorrow is able to work safely and effectively to meet the needs of the people in their care as the delivery of healthcare services continues to change. At today's Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) meeting, Council members agreed to a set of principles (
Computerised System Is World-First To Predict Premature Births
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 -0700
Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerised system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy. The University of Melbourne, the University of Newcastle and Symbion Pathology are combining expertise in medical research, engineering and pathology to develop a computer program to predict women at risk of a premature birth. About 17,000 pre-term births occur in Australia each year.
Maternity Safety In Practice Seminar (RCM Accredited) Working In High-Risk Situations, 20 October 2008, London
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:00:00 -0700
Monday 20 October 2008, 9.30am-1.15pm The King's Fund, London The full programme for The King's Fund maternity safety in practice seminar on working in high-risk situations is available on our website.

Journal of Research in Nursing current issue

Guest Editorial: Compassion and smiles: what's the evidence?
Smith, P. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000

Commentary: Working together: the key to achieving quality care for an ageing population
Nolan, M. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000

'A stony road... a 19 year journey': 'Bridging' through late-stage Parkinson's disease
Williams, S., Keady, J. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000
AbstractStudies reporting the lived experience of late-stage Parkinson's disease are sparse. Using constructivist grounded theory and centre-stage storyline generation as the methodological approach, this study reports on 69 interviews with 13 people with late-stage Parkinson's disease and their family carers who were recruited from the caseload of two specialist Parkinson's disease nurses working in North Wales and one consultant geriatrician. The interviews were conducted longitudinally between June 2007 and April 2008, and all participants were diagnosed with late-stage idiopathic Parkinson's disease using Brain Bank clinical criteria. All interviews and the subsequent sharing, modification and testing of the results of data analysis were conducted in the person's home and with their participation as partners in the research process. From this process, bridging emerged as the centre-stage storyline in adjusting to life with late-stage Parkinson's disease, and this consisted of three temporal stages, namely: 1) building on the past; 2) bridging the present and 3) broaching the future. These three stages were underpinned by three linked sequential foundations, namely biographical, situational and crumbling. These stages, foundations and properties of bridging have important implications for the understanding of late-stage Parkinson's disease and informing the nursing role in developing and providing appropriate supportive interventions.

Evidence-Based Nursing current issue

[Purpose and procedure] Purpose and procedure
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0000

[EBN notebook] Economic evaluation of healthcare technologies using primary research
Soares, M., Dumville, J. C Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0000

[Treatment] Review: venepuncture is less painful than heel lance for blood sampling in neonates
Mainous, R. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0000


Research in Nursing & Health

Recruiting African American smokers into intervention research: Relationships between recruitment strategies and participant characteristics
Monica S. Webb, Danielle Seigers, Elizabeth A. Wood Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:23:00 -0000
The purposes of this study were to (a) to describe an 8-month recruitment campaign to enroll African American smokers (N = 249) into a randomized controlled trial and (b) examine characteristics of participants recruited through proactive (face-to-face), reactive (television, radio, or newspaper ads inviting participants), and combination (both reactive and proactive) approaches. Reactive recruitment was most successful (43%), followed by proactive (31%), and combination (26%) recruitment. Compared to proactive recruitment, reactive recruitment was associated with lower nicotine dependence, and greater readiness to quit, processes of change engagement, and acculturation. Combination recruitment was associated with lower nicotine dependence and greater readiness to quit. The differences according to recruitment strategy could be used to tailor recruitment strategies for African American smokers. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res. Nurs. Health
Polishing your shot at the bull's eye: The "Please Do" list
Robin D. Froman Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:13:00 -0000
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Life course theory as a framework to examine becoming a mother of a medically fragile preterm infant
Beth Perry Black, Diane Holditch-Davis, Margaret S. Miles Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:55:00 -0000
Life course theory, a sociological framework, was used to analyze the phenomenon of becoming a mother, with longitudinal narrative data from 34 women who gave birth prematurely after a high-risk pregnancy, and whose infant became medically fragile. Women faced challenges of mistimed birth and mothering a technologically dependent infant. Before social ties were established, legal and biological ties required mothers to make critical decisions about their infants. Liminality characterized mothers' early involvement with their infants. The mothers worked to know, love, and establish deeper attachments to this baby. The infant's homecoming was a key turning point; it decreased liminality of early mothering, increased mothers' control of infants' care, and gave them time and place to know their infants more intimately. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health

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