As a life-limiting illness mediated by rapid advancements in biomedical technologies, metastatic breast cancer (MBC) now presents in increasingly unexpected ways where women are living longer. These women’s lives may not ...
The purpose of this study was to explain how public health renewal has shaped public health nursing practice, how public health nurses have managed these changes, and the perceived impact of such changes on health outcomes. ...
The purpose of this research was to offer a description of the complexity of nurses’ medication administration practices in relationships with technology. The clinical situations and circumstances in which nurses administer ...
Situation awareness and distributed situation awareness are important concepts in critical care, where large interdisciplinary teams must coordinate their activities through information sharing to provide lifesaving treatment ...
Clinical nursing practice is on the cusp of significant and unrelenting change amid globalization, austerity measures and technological advancements as the world moves out of the industrial age into the knowledge age. With ...
Through an exploratory qualitative, interpretive frame that employed an ethnographic methodological approach, this research focuses on teaching assistants (TAs) teaching in a lab, tutorial, or discussion group. Nine TAs ...
This dissertation presents a Parsesciencing study of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling pulled in different directions. Concept inventing reveals feeling pulled in different directions as pondering ...
Peripheral members, or lurkers, make up the majority of membership in an online network, but not much is known about them as they are not publicly active (e.g. Post online). Data on the lurker population of Nurses and ...
This dissertation studies a process of change as evidenced in the everyday conduct
of cancer nursing within the context of the ambulatory care setting. The purpose of this
study was to explicate relationships of leaders ...
Chronic illnesses and disabilities are the number one health
problems in North America, and are the health challenges of this era.
Many studies have investigated the illness experience for people with
chronic conditions, ...
Recent literature has challenged traditional views of women's
development of self . Many scholars have suggested that the traditional
concept of self-as-autonomous being does not reflect women's experiences.
Further, ...
This feminist postmodern praxis oriented research investigates the journey and discourses of women living with breast cancer. This study explores the ways in which discourses and health care practices are implicated in ...
In Canada, nursing education and practice are enacted in the context of a white settler nation-state. As part of their mandates, nursing schools uphold concepts such as multiculturalism, equity, and diversity; however, ...
The thunderstorm encroaches, the smoky raven like clouds float over my spirit. This writing takes place at a time of mourning, a deep and lonesome sadness for family relations who have passed over the last few years, many ...
Telehealth has great potential for providing timely and comprehensive care to community-dwelling older adults while reducing their barriers to healthcare access. The purpose of this study is to understand how older adults ...
Falls are the most frequent cause of injury-related hospitalization and death for
people 65 years and older in Canada (Canadian Institute of Health Information, 1998;
Langlois et al., 1995; Raina & Torrance, 1996). Studies ...
My own experiences of disjuncture sparked questions related to how practical nursing education is situated within the larger nursing disciplinary landscape. On acute care nursing units, work relationships are changing ...
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This thesis represents a two phase, qualitative study using both Expert Review Panel and Delphi Panel research methods. The two research questions guiding this study were: 1) Phase I: What does culturally ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how routine, day-to-day public health nursing (PHN) practice in one BC health authority affected health outcomes related to breastfeeding initiation and duration, infant ...
As Canada’s population gradually ages, provinces such as British
Columbia are beginning to explore initiatives to support family caregivers of the
frail elderly. The focus of this dissertation is the evaluation of one ...