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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...

Promoting Health, Supporting Inclusion: Developments in the Nursing and Midwifery Contributions to Improving the Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Scotland.

Journal Article
Brown, M. (2004)
Promoting Health, Supporting Inclusion: Developments in the Nursing and Midwifery Contributions to Improving the Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Scotland. International Journal of Nursing in Intellectual and Developmental Disability. 2, 3-12
Public policy within Scotland is directed towards social inclusion and health improvement for all citizens. Since political devolution in Scotland in 1999, there has been a co...

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...

Injecting drug use: developing a drop-in wound care clinic

Journal Article
Finnie, A., & Nicholson, P. (2002)
Injecting drug use: developing a drop-in wound care clinic. British Journal of Nursing, 11(Sup2), S8-S20. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2002.11.Sup2.10293
The first part of this two-part series examined the difficulties facing nurses working with injecting drug users with skin problems (Finnie and Nicolson, 2002). This article d...