An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography
Journal Article
Reid, L., Kydd, A., & Slater, B. (2018)
An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987118756477
This paper provides an institutional ethnographic analysis of how discussions and advance decisions about serious illness, hospital admission and Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmona...
Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016)
Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’. Nursing Older People, 28(5), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.28.5.31.s26
This article describes digital skills training (DST) for staff and later, residents, as part of a programme of culture change in a large care home with nursing in Glasgow. It ...
Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016)
Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation. Nursing Older People, 28(8), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e790
This article is the second of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. In this article, the authors describe their independent development ...
Culture change in care homes: a literature review.
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016)
Culture change in care homes: a literature review. Nursing Older People, 28(7), 35-39. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e789
This article is the first of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. A UK care home company sought the authors’ expertise to design and fa...
Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students?
Journal Article
Mullen, R. F., Kydd, A., Fleming, A., & McMillan, L. (2017)
Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students?. Nursing Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733017720825
Background: Despite growing interest in the potential of nursing education to enhance dignity in nursing care, relatively little is known about what dignity means to nursing s...
Attitudes towards caring for older people in Scotland, Sweden and the United States: Angela Kydd and colleagues compare data from three countries to assess what staff think about working in the specialty
Journal Article
Kydd, A., Touhy, T., Newman, D., Fagerberg, I., & Engstrom, G. (2014)
Attitudes towards caring for older people in Scotland, Sweden and the United States: Angela Kydd and colleagues compare data from three countries to assess what staff think about working in the specialty. Nursing Older People, 26(2), 33-40. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop2014.02.26.2.33.e547
Aim To explore the attitudes of nurses and nursing
students in Scotland, Sweden and the US towards
working with older people.
Method This quantitative study used the 20-item
M...
Implementing digital skills training in care homes: a literature review
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Wild, D., Kydd, A., & Szczepura, A. (2016)
Implementing digital skills training in care homes: a literature review. Nursing Older People, 28(4), 26-29. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.28.4.26.s22
This article is the first of a two-part series that
together inform and describe digital skills training
using a dedicated console computer provided for
staff and residents in...
Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits
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Mackay, W. G., MacIntosh, T., Kydd, A., Fleming, A., O'Kane, C., Shepherd, A., …McIver, V. (2018)
Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(3-4), 866-875. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14117
Aims and Objective: To explore the experiences of community patients living with a urethral catheter and those caring for them.
Background: Living at home with an indwelling...
Attitudes towards caring for older people: findings and recommendations for practice: In the second part of this article, Angela Kydd and colleagues compare data from two studies to gauge if there has been a change in opinion over a decade
Journal Article
Kydd, A., Wild, D. & Nelson, S. (2013)
Attitudes towards caring for older people: findings and recommendations for practice: In the second part of this article, Angela Kydd and colleagues compare data from two studies to gauge if there has been a change in opinion over a decade. Nursing Older People. 25(4), 21-28. doi:10.7748/nop2013.05.25.4.21.e769part2. ISSN 1472-0795
Aim To investigate the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards working with older people, including their perception of how other professionals perceived their work in g...
Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession
Journal Article
Savič, B., & Kydd, A. (2011)
Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession. Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 50(4), https://doi.org/10.2478/v10152-011-0007-3
Introduction: As the population needs for health care at the local level become integrated into the global context, nurses are given the opportunity to make a significant cont...