All Outputs (5)

“Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, L., & Walker, L. (2022). “Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing. The journal of adult protection, 24(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAP-07-2021-0024

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the concept and practice, of dignity as understood and experienced by older adults and district nursing staff. The paper adds a new, nuanced, understanding of safeguarding possibilities in the context of district n... Read More about “Just because people are old, just because they're ill…” dignity matters in district nursing.

Dressings and dignity in community nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, E., & Walker, L. (2021). Dressings and dignity in community nursing. British Journal of Community Nursing, 26(11), 526-531. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2021.26.11.526

Although dignity has been widely explored in the context of healthcare, it has rarely been the subject of empirical exploration when care is delivered by community district nursing teams. This paper demonstrates how a commonplace community nursing ta... Read More about Dressings and dignity in community nursing.

Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing (2021)
Journal Article
Stevens, E., Price, E., & Walker, E. (in press). Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing. Ageing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x21000738

The concept of dignity is core to community district nursing practice, yet it is profoundly complex with multiple meanings and interpretations. Dignity does not exist absolutely, but, rather, becomes socially (de)constructed through and within social... Read More about Making the mundane remarkable: an ethnography of the ‘dignity encounter’ in community district nursing.

Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study (2021)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Walker, L., Borgstrom, E., & Burke, S. M. (2022). Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study. Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health, 14(1), 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.1879918

Advanced, incurable disease is a highly stressful and traumatic life event that can lead to losses of social identity, social connectedness, and losses associated with bodily disintegration. The combination of these losses makes it difficult to remai... Read More about Group-based Tai Chi as therapy for alleviating experiences of social death in people with advanced, incurable disease: an ethnographic study.

‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus (2021)
Journal Article
Booth, S., Price, E., & Walker, E. (2021). ‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 5(1), Article rkab019. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkab019

Objectives
The aim was to investigate whether National Health Service (NHS) employees with SLE, for whom work disability and early retirement are high, are supported effectively in at work.
Methods
An online survey of 393 people with lupus was com... Read More about ‘When I asked for help and support it was not there’: current NHS employment practice and its impact on people with systemic lupus erythematosus.