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Exploring the experiences and expectations of year 1 children's nursing students. (2012)
Journal Article
Wright, J., & Wray, J. (2012). Exploring the experiences and expectations of year 1 children's nursing students. Nursing Children and Young People, 24(4), 24-28. https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp2012.05.24.4.24.c9091

Attrition among children's nursing students remains high despite the field of practice attracting large numbers of applicants. While previous studies have examined nursing students as a group, this study specifically examines the children's nursing s... Read More about Exploring the experiences and expectations of year 1 children's nursing students..

Screening for alcohol use in criminal justice settings: An exploratory study (2012)
Journal Article
Coulton, S., Newbury-Birch, D., Cassidy, P., Dale, V., Deluca, P., Gilvarry, E., …Drummond, C. (2012). Screening for alcohol use in criminal justice settings: An exploratory study. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47(4), 423-427. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/ags048

Aims: To examine the feasibility and acceptability of alcohol screening and delivery of brief interventions within criminal justice settings. Methods: A quantitative survey of those aged 18 or over in English criminal justice settings (three custody... Read More about Screening for alcohol use in criminal justice settings: An exploratory study.

Role of the mental health nurse towards physical health care in serious mental illness: An integrative review of 10 years of UK Literature (2012)
Journal Article
Blythe, J., & White, J. (2012). Role of the mental health nurse towards physical health care in serious mental illness: An integrative review of 10 years of UK Literature. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 21(3), 193-201. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2011.00792.x

People with serious mental illness have significantly poorer physical health compared to the general population. Mental health nurses are in a prime position to help reduce unacceptable death in this population. A literature search was undertaken to... Read More about Role of the mental health nurse towards physical health care in serious mental illness: An integrative review of 10 years of UK Literature.

Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction in mood, breast- and endocrine-related quality of life, and well-being in stage 0 to III breast cancer : a randomized, controlled trial (2012)
Journal Article
Hoffman, C. J., Ersser, S. J., Hopkinson, J. B., Nicholls, P. G., Harrington, J. E., & Thomas, P. W. (2012). Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction in mood, breast- and endocrine-related quality of life, and well-being in stage 0 to III breast cancer : a randomized, controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 30(12), 1335-1342. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2010.34.0331

Purpose To assess the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for mood, breast- and endocrine-specific quality of life, and well-being after hospital treatment in women with stage 0 to III breast cancer. Patients and Methods A rand... Read More about Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction in mood, breast- and endocrine-related quality of life, and well-being in stage 0 to III breast cancer : a randomized, controlled trial.

The Medicine with Respect Project: a stakeholder focus group evaluation (2012)
Journal Article
Hemingway, S., White, J., Turner, J., Dewhirst, K., & Smith, G. (2012). The Medicine with Respect Project: a stakeholder focus group evaluation. Nurse education in practice, 12(6), 310-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2012.03.008

The administration of medicines is a role that fundamentally impacts on the wellbeing of the patient and has been described as one of the highest risk activities that a nurse undertakes. This article reports on the Medicine with Respect Project where... Read More about The Medicine with Respect Project: a stakeholder focus group evaluation.

Researching student perspectives on interprofessional online learning via asynchronous text-based conferencing in healthcare education: a literature review (2012)
Journal Article
Loke, J. C. (2012). Researching student perspectives on interprofessional online learning via asynchronous text-based conferencing in healthcare education: a literature review. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 2(2), 141 - 150. https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v2n2p141

Background: There is an increasing important role for asynchronous text-based computer mediated conferencing as a pedagogic tool in interprofessional learning for nurses in higher education. Available research studies on asynchronous text-based inter... Read More about Researching student perspectives on interprofessional online learning via asynchronous text-based conferencing in healthcare education: a literature review.

The Chinese version of the cardiac depression scale: Mokken scaling (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, W., Hare, D. L., Ski, C. F., Thompson, D. R., & Watson, R. (2012). The Chinese version of the cardiac depression scale: Mokken scaling. Health and quality of life outcomes, 10(1), 33 - 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-10-33

Background: Myocardial infarction is a major cause of death and morbidity in many countries, including China. The aim of this study was to analyse a Mandarin Chinese translation of the Cardiac Depression Scale for a hierarchy of items according to th... Read More about The Chinese version of the cardiac depression scale: Mokken scaling.

The structure of stress: confirmatory factor analysis of a Chinese version of the stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS) (2012)
Journal Article
Watson, R., Yanhua, C., Ip, M. Y., Smith, G. D., Wong, T. K., & Deary, I. J. (2013). The structure of stress: confirmatory factor analysis of a Chinese version of the stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS). Nurse education today, 33(2), 160-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2012.02.013

Background Stress is a feature of the life of nursing students and this had been well studied. However, there are very few instruments to measure stress in nursing students specifically. One such instrument, the Stressors in Nursing Students Scale... Read More about The structure of stress: confirmatory factor analysis of a Chinese version of the stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS).

Editorial: Meeting the health care needs associated with poverty, homelessness and social exclusion: the need for an interprofessional approach: Editorial (2012)
Journal Article
Cross, W., Hayter, M., Jackson, D., & Cleary, M. (2012). Editorial: Meeting the health care needs associated with poverty, homelessness and social exclusion: the need for an interprofessional approach: Editorial. Journal of clinical nursing, 21(7-8), 907-908. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03945.x

The Chinese version of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS): Mokken scaling (2012)
Journal Article
Watson, R., Wang, W., Ski, C. F., & Thompson, D. R. (2012). The Chinese version of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS): Mokken scaling. Health and quality of life outcomes, 10(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-10-2

Background: Hierarchical scales are very useful in clinical practice due to their ability to discriminate precisely between individuals, and the original English version of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale has been shown to cont... Read More about The Chinese version of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS): Mokken scaling.