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Characteristics, Interventions, and Outcomes of Women Who Used a Birthing Pool: A Prospective Observational Study (2012)
Journal Article
Burns, E. E., Boulton, M. G., Cluett, E., Cornelius, V. R., & Smith, L. A. (2012). Characteristics, Interventions, and Outcomes of Women Who Used a Birthing Pool: A Prospective Observational Study. Birth, 39(3), 192-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2012.00548.x

Background: Birthing pools are integrated into maternity care in the United Kingdom and are a popular care option for women in midwifery-led units and at home. The objective of this study was to describe and compare maternal characteristics, intrapar... Read More about Characteristics, Interventions, and Outcomes of Women Who Used a Birthing Pool: A Prospective Observational Study.

A critical view on the professionalisation efforts of nursing in Singapore through a Foucauldian lens (2012)
Journal Article
Loke, J. (2012). A critical view on the professionalisation efforts of nursing in Singapore through a Foucauldian lens. Singapore nursing journal, 39(3), 43013

Singapore was once a British colony and nursing has since been under considerable influence from the dominant western political-medical power. Up till the present day, nursing in Singapore is still looking towards the West for knowledge to guide loca... Read More about A critical view on the professionalisation efforts of nursing in Singapore through a Foucauldian lens.

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..

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.

Clinical update - prescribing in ophthalmology (2012)
Journal Article
Lee, A. (2012). Clinical update - prescribing in ophthalmology. International journal of ophthalmic practice, 3(2), 88 - 91. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijop.2012.3.2.88

This is the second in a series of two articles discussing prescribing in advanced ophthalmic nursing practice in the UK. With the support of ophthalmic nurse practitioners this article explores issues relating to medicines management, the patient's e... Read More about Clinical update - prescribing in ophthalmology.

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.

Researching student perspectives on interprofessional online learning via asynchronous text-based conferencing in healthcare education: a literature review (2012)
Journal Article
Loke, J. C.-F. (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 structure of stress: confirmatory factor analysis of a Chinese version of the stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS) (2012)
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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).

Clinical update — pharmacological issues in ophthalmology (2012)
Journal Article
Sherratt, A., & Yvonne, N. (2012). Clinical update — pharmacological issues in ophthalmology. International journal of ophthalmic practice, 3(1), 43-47. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijop.2012.3.1.43

This article addresses pharmacology and pharmacokinetic principles of main drug groups prescribed in advanced practice in ophthalmology settings. It is the first in a series of two articles which have been developed to underpin advanced practice in o... Read More about Clinical update — pharmacological issues in ophthalmology.

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.