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ItemLeading by gaslight? Nursing's academic leadership struggles(WILEY, 2018-05)
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ItemDyadic incongruence in chronic heart failure: Implications forpatient and carer psychological health and self-care(WILEY, 2017-12)AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To examine whether chronic heart failure patient-carer dyads who disagree about the division of illness management tasks (incongruent) experience poorer psychosocial health and self-care, than those who agree (congruent). BACKGROUND: Informal carers often assist patients with chronic heart failure in the complex management of their illness, but little is known about how relationship dynamics may affect psychosocial health. DESIGN: A prospective cross-sectional study was adopted with a purposeful sample of 25 chronic heart failure patient-carer dyads residing in Australia. METHODS: Data were collected via mail-out questionnaires. Dyads were classified as congruent or incongruent using the Heart Failure Care Assessment Scale. Depression, anxiety, stress and quality of life were assessed in patients and carers. Additionally, self-care and relationship quality were assessed in patients; and burden and esteem were assessed in carers. Differences in congruent and incongruent patient and carer outcomes were examined. RESULTS: Dyads were predominantly spousal and around a third demonstrated incongruence. No significant differences were found between congruent (n = 16) and incongruent (n = 9) dyads, although patients in incongruent dyads tended to have been diagnosed more recently. CONCLUSION: In chronic heart failure patient-carer dyads incongruence exists even for patients with relatively mild chronic heart failure symptoms. These findings indicate that dyadic incongruence in illness management might not affect high-functioning chronic heart failure heart failure patients or their carers. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Given the prevalence of dyadic incongruence and the possibility of further negative outcomes with disease progression, it is important to examine factors such as length of time since diagnosis or type of carer relationship. By implementing self-care education and management strategies that focus on the dyad, rather than the individual, nurses have the potential to improve both patient and carer outcomes.
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ItemRandomized controlled trial of family-based education for patients with heart failure and their carers(WILEY, 2017-04)AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate a heart failure education programme developed for patients and carers in Thailand. BACKGROUND: Heart failure is major health problem. This is the first trial of a family-based education programme for heart failure patients and carers residing in rural Thailand. DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial. METHODS: One hundred patient-carer dyads attending cardiac clinics in southern Thailand from April 2014 - March 2015 were randomized to usual care (n = 50) or a family-based education programme (n = 50) comprising face-to-face counselling, a heart failure manual and DVD and telephone support. Assessments of heart failure knowledge, health-related quality of life, self-care behaviours and perceived control were conducted at baseline, three and six months. RESULTS: Linear mixed-effects model revealed that patients and carers who received the education programme had higher knowledge scores at three and six months than those who received usual care. Among those who received the education programme, when compared with those who received usual care, patients had better self-care maintenance and confidence, and health-related quality of life scores at three and six months, and better self-care management scores at six months, whereas carers had higher perceived control scores at three months. CONCLUSION: Addressing a significant service gap in rural Thailand, this family-based heart failure programme improved patient knowledge, self-care behaviours and health-related quality of life and carer knowledge and perceived control.
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ItemFive (bad) reasons to publish your research in predatory journals(WILEY, 2017-11)
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ItemJournal editors and their h-index(WILEY, 2017-09)
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ItemThe effect of Nurse GraduaTeness on patient mortality: a cross-sectional survey (the NuGaT study)(WILEY, 2016-12)AIM: To investigate the relationship between patient mortality and the educational preparation (graduateness) of the nurses who cared for them. BACKGROUND: There have been 18 studies over the last two decades examining the effect of nurses' educational qualifications on mortality. All but three have used mortality data aggregated at the hospital level that has been combined with surveys of nurses to estimate the level of graduateness in the population. Data collection and extraction generally has been done at different points in time. DESIGN: A retrospective, cross-sectional study. METHOD: Routine administrative patient data were extracted (May-August 2015). The primary outcome was all-cause patient mortality at discharge. We were able to identify the individual nurses who provided care during patients inpatient stay using an identification number. We were then able to calculate the 'graduateness' of the nursing care patients received by dividing the number of recorded episodes of care provided by baccalaureate prepared nurses with the total number of care episodes. RESULTS: After adjusting for confounding, we observed a significant association between patient mortality and nurse graduateness. Our observations suggest an optimum level of baccalaureate prepared nurses of approximately 70%. Above this level, there appears to be no additional decrease in mortality rates. CONCLUSION: This study represents an important methodological step forward over previous approaches. Our observations are generally consistent with existing literature and confirm the importance of baccalaureate nurse education.
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ItemNursing's research problem: A call to action.(Wiley, 2019-12)
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ItemThe lost heroes of nursing.(Wiley, 2019-11)
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ItemNursing's future? Eat young. Spit out. Repeat. Endlessly.(Hindawi Limited, 2019-10)
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ItemIncreasing citations to your work.(Wiley, 2019-08)
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