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(2023-08-31)Women and gender diverse persons often remain underserved by harm reduction programs and initiatives (e.g., needle distribution, supervised consumption services, prescribed safer supply programs). A lack of attention to ...
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(2023-08-31)Honouring lived experience wisdom: Defining healing and healing environments according to ‘family members’ in Indigenous-led alcohol harm reduction and culturally supportive housing’ illustrates a strengths-based story of ...
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(2023-08-30)Persons with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) experience a greater burden and severity of chronic disease, late diagnosis, and premature death compared to the general population. These patients also receive fewer ...
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(2023-07-20)The healthcare transition for adolescent and young adult (AYA) organ transplant recipients is a critical yet understudied period, marked by a shift from pediatric to adult-focused care. This transition process presents ...
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(2023-04-21)There is an increasing need for home care in Canada; however, there is little evidence about the everyday nursing work in home care and the institutional influences that impact this work. As nurses are the largest professional ...
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(2022-10-03)Canadians are living longer with multiple complex illnesses. In turn, older adults are often in need of complex medical attention in crisis situations in acute care hospital settings. Although acute care settings are ...
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(2022-08-19)My goal with this inquiry was to seek the meaning of teaching nursing from within the discipline, aligning pedagogy with what it means to become a nurse in addition to revealing what nursing is as an embodied practice and ...
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(2022-05-02)Thousands of women in Canada continue to be diagnosed every year with breast cancer, many undergoing surgical mastectomy as part of their treatment to eradicate or control the spread of disease. At present, the recommendation ...
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(2022-04-27)This dissertation starts with a foreword chapter that discusses my situatedness in research which aims to understand the experiences of LGBTQI+ migrants with nurses and healthcare professionals in Canada. This is followed ...
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(2022-01-07)My experiences as a Canadian Muslim nurse wearing a hijab have sparked the question concerning the experiences of nurses who, in their daily practice, choose to wear a head cover, an immediate visual signifier of their ...
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(2022-01-04)Self-care is a central concept in heart failure management and nursing practice. Yet, the uptake of heart failure self-care has been uncritical and detached from broader contexts. Therefore, heart failure self-care was ...
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(2021-10-04)Prior to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were already experiencing social isolation due to the complex intersection of symptoms, and perceptions ...
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(2021-09-13)Measurement for quality improvement in health care can be difficult. Measuring patientcentred care ensures both patient, health care professionals and health system perspectives are accounted for. Unfortunately, obtaining ...
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(2021-09-13)My doctoral studies contribute toward situating the health of mothering women who have been forcibly displaced within the nursing discipline. Specifically, public health nursing processes used while working with and ...
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(2021-04-30)Aim The study aim was to explore the issues and challenges facing undergraduate nursing education in one Canadian province from an institutional theory perspective. The research questions were: What is the institutional ...
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(2020-06-05)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 ...
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(2020-06-02)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. ...
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(2020-05-20)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 ...
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(2019-12-24)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 ...
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(2019-09-27)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 ...
