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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Community nurses"”.
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The effectiveness of educating community nurses by distance learning.
… of distance learning within post-registration community nurse education. In this context, 'effectiveness' is defined as being useful to the student or 'fit for purpose' and it focuses on the educational experience. The study, which was designed in two stages, aimed to investigate whether …
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Working in palliative care: exploring community nurses' experiences of their work
This study explored community-based Palliative Care nurses’ experiences of their work. The aim of this study was to explore the positive aspects of working in palliative care, as well as the challenges that community-based nurses experience in their work. The coping strategies that are employed by …
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The Lived Experience of Faith Community Nurses Living the Call to Health Ministry
Faith community nursing is one of the newest specialized practices of professional nursing. A faith community nurse is an actively registered professional nurse, who serves as a paid or volunteer staff member in a faith community. The faith community nurse promotes health and wholism of the faith …
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The Impact of Tele-advice on the Community Nurses' Management of Leg Ulcers
… of new technology, specifically tele-advice on community nurses' care of leg ulcers. Firstly, a stratified randomised controlled study was designed to measure the impact of using this technology on their levels of wound knowledge and confidence. An individual self-test questionnaire and an …
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How do community nurses make sense of their experiences of providing end-of-life care for patients with dementia? An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… study aims to explore first-hand experiences of community nurses providing end-of-life dementia care (EOLDC) and the meanings they attribute to their experiences. Literature Review: An integrative review was conducted to gain an understanding of prevailing research and prevailing debates in …
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Not just a simple dressing: A practitioner inquiry exploring the complexity within residential care homes and the district nursing response
… care homes were also sought, as well as from community nurses (n=12), community matrons (n=4) and specialist nurses (n=2) attached to these care homes. These data were compared to the findings from the original case study and reflections of the practitioner researcher, to identify findings …
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Women's perceptions of successful breastfeeding during the early stages of being a mother
… administrators, prenatal educators, midwives and community nurses in the provision of resources, education, care and support to assist women to meet their desired breastfeeding goals.
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Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Community Health Nursing as a Career
… care from the acute hospital setting to the community. Nurses play an essential role as part of the community health care workforce; however, only a limited number of baccalaureate nursing students tend to choose a career in community health nursing after graduation. There is currently a gap …
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Survey of medical, dental and nursing services in centres for intellectually and physically disabled children in Cape Town and its environs
… were mainly funded from non-government sources. Nurses employed at the centres had worked an average of 8 years at their centres, 23,5% of them having worked with disabled children prior to taking up their present posts. Of the Special Care Centres, only the two residential ones had a nurse on …
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Skill mix in primary care : patient, professional and management perpectives
… practitioners, their directly employed team and community nurses attached to practices. Between and within the groups there are areas of agreement but also divergence of opinions and the key issues to be explored emerge from the literature. Approach: The study takes a combined case study, …
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Exploring the perceptions of hoarding from those who support people exhibiting hoarding behaviour: an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
… therapists, support workers, psychologists, community nurses, social service workers and housing associations. Professionals frequently report that they find working with individuals who hoard frustrating and give high rates of negative appraisals of hoarding behaviour while being comfortable …