- Nursing education and management
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Family Support in Illness
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Historical Art and Culture Studies
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
- Australian History and Society
- Literature: history, themes, analysis
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Cultural History and Identity Formation
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Literary, Cultural, Historical Analysis
- Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
- Academic Research and Education Studies
University College Cork
2007-2023
Holy Cross College
1969
College of the Holy Cross
1969
To explore preceptors' views and experiences of preceptoring undergraduate nursing students.Undertaking a role is acknowledged internationally as complex challenging. With the introduction degree programme in Ireland (2002), preceptors were assigned more formal teaching assessing students. As this was new for students an additional responsibility preceptors, it important to investigate how found experience.Data collected using mixed methods descriptive approach.Many wanted become preceptor...
Aims and objectives. The research aims to explore how preceptors interpret, operationalize, document teach person‐centred care as they guide students within an acute surgical environment. Background. Person‐centred is a term that widely used in the nursing literature; however, its interpretation practice remains virtually unexplored. This of great significance nurses general but Irish particular on whom this study focused. As preceptor have been identified key people education clinical...
The whole body of the work English poet Thomas Gray (1716-71) is examined in this study. Although not a biography, study examines Gray's development stage by studying his life, correspondence, notebooks, and scholarship, poems (with attention to prosody), both draft published form.
Current research views hope as a process that plays positive role in the recovery of individuals with mental health problems. However, little attention has been given to lives their families. We aimed address gap. deployed qualitative descriptive design and carried out individual interviews nine family members who supported relative A cross-comparison data generated three major themes: understandings hope; factors diminish nurture hope. The participants viewed productive feeling or attitude...
Despite wide agreement about the importance of effective communication in nursing there is continuing evidence need for nurses to improve their skills. Consequently, a growing demand more therapeutic and person-centred courses. Studies on education reveal considerable variability design operationalisation these programmes. Additionally, literature highlights that nurse educators are continually challenged with developing implementing Communication skills generally taught years one two...
Despite wide agreement about the importance of effective communication in nursing there is continuing evidence need for nurses to improve their skills. Consequently, a growing demand more therapeutic and person-centred courses. Studies on education reveal considerable variability design operationalisation these programmes. Additionally, literature highlights that nurse educators are continually challenged with developing implementing Communication skills generally taught years one two...
To explore family members' experiences when their loved one is undergoing chemotherapy treatment as an outpatient for newly diagnosed colorectal cancer and to develop explanatory theory of how they process main concern.Most individuals with are now treated outpatients cared by members. International research highlights the many side effects chemotherapy, which in absence specific information and/or experience can be difficult members deal with. Unmet needs have impact on health both patients...
Before the publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in 1958 public awareness West fiction from Africa was confined chiefly to white writers such as Doris Lessing, Alan Paton, or Nadine Gordimer. Thus first novel, written English, though he is himself a Nigerian Igbo people, notable event. More noteworthy fact that it very good novel and has become over years probably most widely read talked about African overshadowing efforts other novelists well those East South Africa. Its...
The aim of this is paper to propose Benner’s “Novice Expert” Framework underpin learning for students as they progress through the clinical components an undergraduate nursing educational program. Steinaker and Bell’s “Experiential Taxonomy” presented a practical medium itemizing activities novices are exposed at initiation experience competencies expected nurses on completion their authors also range theories applicable education students, which can be maximized enhance learning.
Recent reviews of undergraduate nursing curricula highlight a number recommendations.Among these are the need for increased interdisciplinary integration modules, reduction in student assessments and more self-directed learning reflection.In light recommendations, teaching assessing therapeutic interpersonal skills practice psychology healthcare was examined.This paper will outline development an reflective assessment tool to help students integrate psychological knowledge practice.As result...