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Shift Recording in Residential Child Care: Purposes, Issues and Implications for Policy and Practice (2014)
Journal Article
Hardy, M. (2014). Shift Recording in Residential Child Care: Purposes, Issues and Implications for Policy and Practice. Surveillance & Society, 12(1), 108-123

The ways in which information about children in residential child care is recorded and stored raises important implications for service-users, professionals and organizations but is an area of social welfare practise that is under-theorized. Whilst i... Read More about Shift Recording in Residential Child Care: Purposes, Issues and Implications for Policy and Practice.

Stigma: Barriers to Culture and Identity for People With Intellectual Disability (2014)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N. A., & Friedman, C. (2014). Stigma: Barriers to Culture and Identity for People With Intellectual Disability. Inclusion, 2(4), 329-341. https://doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-2.4.329

This exploratory article examines disability culture and identity for people with intellectual disability. In doing so, we argue that the stigma around intellectual disability severely affects people with intellectual disability's sense of culture an... Read More about Stigma: Barriers to Culture and Identity for People With Intellectual Disability.

Difficult conversations in bereavement (2014)
Journal Article
Dosser, I., & Nicol, J. S. (2014). Difficult conversations in bereavement. Nursing and Residential Care, 16(12), 693-697. https://doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2014.16.12.693

Education in bereavement theory and communication skills are essential to ensure effective responses when participating in difficult conversations. Support for staff caring for those in nursing and residential care is paramount

IMatter: validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index (2014)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., & MacArthur, E. (2014). IMatter: validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. BMC Health Services Research, 14, Article 535. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0535-z

Background Employee engagement is a fundamental component of quality healthcare. In order to provide empirical data of engagement in NHS Scotland an Employee Engagement Index was co-constructed with staff. `iMatter¿ consists of 25 Likert questions d... Read More about IMatter: validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index.

Ethics and originality in doctoral research in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2014). Ethics and originality in doctoral research in the UK. Nurse Researcher, 21(6), 12-15. https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.21.6.12.e1244

AIM: To show that the ethics governance process in the UK is not necessarily conducive to innovative investigation by doctoral students. BACKGROUND: Doctoral students need to demonstrate an original contribution to knowledge. This paper cr... Read More about Ethics and originality in doctoral research in the UK.

Carbon dioxide detection for diagnosis of inadvertent respiratory tract placement of enterogastric tubes in children. (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, F. C., Holland, A., Elen, M., & McGirr, D. (2014). Carbon dioxide detection for diagnosis of inadvertent respiratory tract placement of enterogastric tubes in children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD011196

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of capnometry and capnography for detecting respiratory EGT placement in children compared to the reference standard.

Wound debridement: a clinical update (2014)
Journal Article
McFarland, A., & Smith, F. C. (2014). Wound debridement: a clinical update. Nursing Standard, 28(52), 51-58. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.28.52.51.e9171

This article aims to improve nurses’ knowledge of wound debridement through a review of different techniques and the related physiology of wound healing. Debridement has long been an established component of effective wound management. However, recen... Read More about Wound debridement: a clinical update.