Cathy Heaven

ORCID: 0000-0003-1170-6490
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Research Areas
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Nursing Roles and Practices
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Nursing education and management
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
  • Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
2010-2014

The Christie Hospital
1997-2007

Deleted Institution
2007

Cancer Research UK
2005

Patient assessment underpins every aspect of nursing care However, there is much evidence to suggest that many nurses lack the skills necessary communicate effectively with their patients, and so assess individual problems concerns Communication studies date have been descriptive, or concentrated on acquisition without addressing impact this has patient This paper reviews a study 44 hospice who were taught It discusses training not only skill level, but also ability elicit patients’...

10.1111/j.1365-2648.1996.tb02668.x article EN Journal of Advanced Nursing 1996-02-01

As part of an evaluation the training hospice nurses in communication skills, selectivity patients disclosing their concerns and ability to register all disclosed were studied. Forty-two recruited from two hospices north England. They asked determine write down patients' current before after training, nine months later. Their interviews tape recorded permit rating disclosed. After each interview a research nurse used semistructured Concerns Checklist elicit concerns. The Spielberger State...

10.1177/026921639701100404 article EN Palliative Medicine 1997-07-01

To examine the effects of a computer-assisted, interactive tailored patient assessment (ITPA) tool in oncology practice on: documented care, symptom distress, and patients' need for management support during treatment rehabilitation.For this repeated measures clinical trial at university hospital Norway, 145 patients starting leukemia or lymphoma were randomly assigned to either an intervention (n=75) control group (n=70). Both groups used ITPA assessments prior inpatient outpatient visits...

10.1136/jamia.2010.005660 article EN Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2010-07-01

A total of 87 patients admitted to two hospices during a 9 month period were assessed by trained nurses determine their current concerns. These assessment interviews tape recorded. researcher then administered semi structured concerns interview using the Concerns Checklist, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Spielberger State Inventory. Patients reported an average 6.5 about loss independence family most common. Although third patient sample died within short time after interview, cancer,...

10.1002/(sici)1099-1611(199811/12)7:6<502::aid-pon336>3.0.co;2-t article EN Psycho-Oncology 1998-11-01

Abstract Title. Cue‐responding behaviours of oncology nurses in video‐simulated interviews Aim. This paper is a report study to describe nurse–patient interactions, i.e. nurses’ cue‐responding behaviour encounters with actors playing the role patients. Background. Patients cancer seldom express their concerns directly but cues instead. Few studies empirically investigated and subsequent influence disclosure concerns. Methods. In this descriptive observational study, conducted from April June...

10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04467.x article EN Journal of Advanced Nursing 2007-11-22

Introduction: The “SAGE & THYME Foundation Level Workshop” delivers evidence-based communication skills training to 30 health care workers in 3 hours. It teaches a structured approach (the SAGE model) discuss patient/carer concerns. aim of this study was determine whether the workshop had positive outcome on factors that influence skills. Methods: pragmatic, mixed methods design. Workshops were run an acute hospital. One hundred seventy completed questionnaires pre- and post-workshop; 141...

10.1002/chp.21214 article EN Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 2014-01-01

SUMMARY The inclusion of communication skills as a core competency in health care curricula, has led to the need define adequacy this area. Developments field interview analysis have meant that robust and objective ways assessing behaviours are now available; however, these systems themselves do not provide model for competency. As interviewing is contextually driven, paper discusses potential using patient centeredness address issue. It suggests two which may be operationally defined,...

10.1017/s1121189x00006138 article EN Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale 2003-06-01

A total of 87 patients admitted to two hospices during a 9 month period were assessed by trained nurses determine their current concerns. These assessment interviews tape recorded. researcher then administered semi structured concerns interview using the Concerns Checklist, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Spielberger State Inventory. Patients reported an average 6.5 about loss independence family most common. Although third patient sample died within short time after interview, cancer,...

10.1002/(sici)1099-1611(199811/12)7:6<502::aid-pon336>3.3.co;2-k article EN Psycho-Oncology 1998-11-01

10.1002/(sici)1099-1611(199901/02)8:1<1::aid-pon382>3.0.co;2-w article EN Psycho-Oncology 1999-01-01

A recent study showed that even after training, hospice nurses failed to identify patients' needs. Cathy Heaven explains why

10.7748/ns.10.22.22.s36 article EN Nursing Standard 1996-02-21

10.1054/ejon.2001.0152 article European Journal of Oncology Nursing 2001-09-01
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