Nicholas Ralph

ORCID: 0000-0002-7404-9996
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Research Areas
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Nursing education and management
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
  • Thermal Regulation in Medicine
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
  • Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors

University of the Sunshine Coast
2023-2025

University of Southern Queensland
2014-2022

University of Technology Sydney
2019-2022

University of KwaZulu-Natal
2022

University of Rajshahi
2022

Cancer Council Queensland
2019-2020

Monash University
2013-2019

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney
2017-2019

Monash Health
2019

Flinders Medical Centre
2019

Variations in grounded theory (GT) interpretation are the subject of ongoing debate. Divergences opinion, genres, approaches, methodologies, and methods exist, resulting disagreement on what GT methodology is how it comes to be. From postpositivism Glaser Strauss, symbolic interactionist roots Strauss Corbin, through constructivism Charmaz, field distinctive sense that those using offer new ontological, epistemological, methodological perspectives at specific moments time. We explore unusual...

10.1177/1609406915611576 article EN cc-by-nc International Journal of Qualitative Methods 2015-11-20

10.1016/j.colegn.2013.10.002 article EN Collegian Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia 2013-11-15

To develop contemporary and inclusive prostate cancer survivorship guidelines for the Australian setting.A four-round iterative policy Delphi was used, with a 47-member expert panel that included leaders from key New Zealand clinical community groups consumers diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQIA people those regional, rural urban settings. The first three rounds were undertaken using an online survey (94-96% response) followed by fourth final face-to-face meeting. Descriptors men's...

10.1111/bju.15159 article EN BJU International 2020-07-06

The use of documents as a source extant data is relatively common in grounded theory (GT) research. While GT promotes the dictum “all data,” finding consistent commentary on how to difficult, especially among seminal works. need be aware context vital step prior commencing analysis, view lack physical interaction between researcher and that data. Contextual positioning proposed tool can used prepare for analysis. enhances interactivity collection process positions before document more...

10.1177/2158244014552425 article EN cc-by SAGE Open 2014-07-01

Psychosexual morbidity is common after prostate cancer treatment, however, long-term prospective research limited. We report 5-year outcomes from a couples-based intervention in dyads with men treated for localised surgery.A randomised controlled trial was conducted involving 189 heterosexual couples, where the man received radical prostatectomy cancer. The groups were peer support vs. nurse counselling versus usual care. Primary sexual adjustment, unmet supportive care needs, masculine...

10.1002/pon.5019 article EN Psycho-Oncology 2019-02-05

Poverty and corruption can both immiserate a nation. Globalisation through open trade potentially increase economic growth, providing employment increased incomes to the poor. Corruption dampen or even reduce these positive developments. Although globalisation is considered instrumental in development strategies, theoretically, impact of on poverty reduction ambiguous, an ambiguity that also reflected empirical literature. The corruption-poverty literature clearly reveals findings such...

10.1080/0376835x.2019.1678460 article EN Development Southern Africa 2019-10-14

Theory-based, user-informed interventions are needed to increase the low participation rates of population-based faecal occult blood test (FOBT) bowel cancer screening. This study investigated theoretical fit health action process approach (HAPA) for home FOBT screening and measured invitees' attitudes towards different intervention strategies. A cross-sectional sample (n = 377), aged 50-74 years, participated in this study. Two scales were created The mail-out (PAMS) scale HAPA constructs,...

10.1111/aphw.12346 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being 2022-02-02

To improve the prevention, detection and treatment of perioperative inadvertent hypothermia in adult surgical patients by implementing a Thermal Care Bundle.Keeping normothermic perioperatively prevents adverse outcomes. Hypothermia leads to serious complications including increased risk bleeding, site infections morbid cardiac events. The Bundle consists three elements: (i) assess risk; (ii) record temperature; (iii) actively warm.A pre- postimplementation study was conducted determine...

10.1111/jocn.14171 article EN Journal of Clinical Nursing 2017-11-17

To measure rates of detection via screening, perceived self-imposed delays in seeking medical attention, and support a sample regional remote people with cancer diagnosis to test whether an association exists between these behaviours minimising problems resignation, need for self-control reliance fatalism. Correlations binary logistic regressions were conducted the associations demographic characteristics, attitudes behaviours.Females more likely have had their detected screening (OR =...

10.1002/pon.5643 article EN Psycho-Oncology 2021-02-06

Introduction Perioperative hypothermia is a common and preventable complication of surgery. Systems level change that enables perioperative teams to integrate prevention into practice in ways are contextually appropriate needed. The purpose this trial evaluate the effectiveness implementation guidance with local adaptation on clinical, economic outcomes. Our objective decrease risk patients developing hypothermia. Methods analysis A hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation study. An...

10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091577 article EN cc-by-nc-nd BMJ Open 2025-02-01

Professional nursing practice is informed by biological, social and behavioural sciences. In undergraduate pre-registration programs, biological sciences typically include anatomy, physiology, microbiology, chemistry, physics pharmacology. The current gap in the literature results a lack of information about content depth being taught curricula. aim this study was to establish what priority given teaching science topics these programs order inform an understanding relative importance placed...

10.1186/s12912-015-0074-x article EN cc-by BMC Nursing 2015-04-30

The relevance of pre-registration programs nursing education to current and emerging trends in healthcare society could have a significant future impact on the profession. In this article, we use PESTEL (politics, economics, society, technology, environment, law) framework identify priorities Australian healthcare. Following analysis, conduct review curriculum content undergraduate curricula. data were analyzed determine how curricula aligned with identified analysis. Findings suggest that...

10.1177/2158244014556633 article EN cc-by SAGE Open 2014-10-01

This study examines the effects of economic growth and foreign direct investment (FDI) on child health outcomes measured by Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) Child Under 5 (CMRU5) with several control variables such as corruption, inequality HIV among others. It analyzes South Africa's annual time series data for period 1985–2016. As were found mixed order integration, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is applied to determine cointegration estimate short-run long-run coefficients.Results...

10.1080/21665095.2020.1717362 article EN cc-by Development Studies Research 2020-01-01

This study aimed to identify whether cancer-related health behaviours including participation in cancer screening vary by geographic location Australia. Data were obtained from the 2014–2015 Australian National Health Survey, a computer-assisted telephone interview that measured range of health-related issues sample randomly selected households. Chi-square tests and adjusted odds ratios logistic regression models computed assess association between residential participation, alcohol...

10.3390/ijerph17041246 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020-02-14

Abstract Objective To develop and test a psychometric instrument for measuring common barriers to completing returning home bowel cancer screening kits. Methods One hundred ten items were reviewed by an expert panel ( n = 15) presented in online cross‐sectional survey with 427 Australian adults. Exploratory factor analysis was used identify optimal solution of latent barrier types aggregated scores examined compared between demographic groups. Results Common included having already been...

10.1002/pon.5741 article EN Psycho-Oncology 2021-05-27

To assess the impact of demographic characteristics and masculinities on seeking support for psychosocial care needs in men with prostate cancer.Prostate cancer survivors (n = 225) completed mail-out surveys measuring psychological needs, masculinities, emotional help-seeking intention behaviour at 6- 12-month follow-ups.Older age was associated help from a general practitioner (GP), χ2 (1,225) 4.72, P .03, being born overseas peer 7.13, .01. Men higher levels optimistic action who reported...

10.1002/pon.5264 article EN Psycho-Oncology 2019-10-29

The authors declare they have no conflict of interest. data that support the findings this study are available on request from corresponding author. not publicly due to privacy or ethical restrictions.

10.1002/pon.5255 article EN Psycho-Oncology 2019-11-04

Abstract Objective To describe contemporary consumer experiences and priorities of prostate cancer survivorship to inform the development guidelines. Method In a cross‐sectional qualitative design, semi‐structured interviews were undertaken with fifty support group leaders (50% response) across urban rural/regional Australia. An interpretative phenomenological approach was used identify participants' survivorship. Results Three themes identified for informing guidelines: (a) Experience...

10.1002/pon.5306 article EN Psycho-Oncology 2020-01-15
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