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Implementing digital skills training in care homes: a literature review (2016)
Journal Article
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 a care home setting. This was
part of a programme of culture change in... Read More about Implementing digital skills training in care homes: a literature review.

Palliative care and dementia - a time and place? (2015)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Sharp, B. (2015). Palliative care and dementia - a time and place?. Maturitas, 84, 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.10.007

The current focus in dementia care places emphasis on the potential of people to live well with the condition. Given the historical tendency to neglect the full rights and citizenship of people with dementia, such an emphasis gives hope and optimism... Read More about Palliative care and dementia - a time and place?.

Palliative care: from oncology to all nursing arenas - good practice or scaring the patients? (2015)
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2015). Palliative care: from oncology to all nursing arenas - good practice or scaring the patients?. Maturitas, 81(4), 446-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.06.003

The aim of this paper is to encourage critical discussion of an individual's understanding of palliative care and compare this with a health care professional's understanding of palliative care. In doing this, the paper serves to illustrate the impor... Read More about Palliative care: from oncology to all nursing arenas - good practice or scaring the patients?.

Ageism and age discrimination in health care: Fact or fiction? A narrative review of the literature. (2015)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Fleming, A. (2015). Ageism and age discrimination in health care: Fact or fiction? A narrative review of the literature. Maturitas, 81(4), 432-438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.05.002

Ageism and age discrimination are terms used in best practice statements and in the literature to define negative attitudes towards older people and towards people because of their age (whether old or young). However, 'old age' is a nebulous concept... Read More about Ageism and age discrimination in health care: Fact or fiction? A narrative review of the literature..

Ethical issues when involving people newly diagnosed with dementia in research (2015)
Journal Article
Holland, S., & Kydd, A. (2015). Ethical issues when involving people newly diagnosed with dementia in research. Nurse Researcher, 22(4), 25-29. https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.22.4.25.e1308

Aim To discuss the methodological and ethical review challenges encountered by researchers who want to enable people with dementia to be involved in research.

Background There has been increasing recognition of the importance of involving people w... Read More about Ethical issues when involving people newly diagnosed with dementia in research.

A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit (2014)
Journal Article
Holms, N., Milligan, S., & Kydd, A. (2014). A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 20(11), 549-556. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2014.20.11.549

Background: End-of-life care (EOLC) in the intensive care unit (ICU) has received little attention in the literature in comparison to the considerable amount of existing literature available on EOLC in other areas of nursing. The ethos of the ICU is... Read More about A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit.

Differing perspectives on a role for technology in care homes to improve the lives of older people and the work environment of staff (2014)
Journal Article
Wild, D., Szczepura, A., Bowman, C., Kydd, A., & Wallis, R. (2014). Differing perspectives on a role for technology in care homes to improve the lives of older people and the work environment of staff. Housing, Care and Support, 17(2), 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1108/hcs-10-2013-0019

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to place the future development of technology within the existing reality of the diversity of care homes.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using the findings from a learning exercise, the paper illustrates “di... Read More about Differing perspectives on a role for technology in care homes to improve the lives of older people and the work environment of staff.

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 (2014)
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
Multifactorial Attitudes Questionnaire (MAQ) to elicit
attitudes on age... Read More about 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.

A qualitative evaluation study of erasmus intensive programs (IP) - a contribution to transcultural nursing? (2014)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., Tsudi-Madsen, C., Chaves, C., & Tricas-Sauras, S. (2014). A qualitative evaluation study of erasmus intensive programs (IP) - a contribution to transcultural nursing?. Journal of Teaching and Education, 3(1), 609-616

This qualitative study set out to explore the main aspects of an Erasmus IP which contribute to student learning. One cohort of 45 IP students (n=8) completed a previously designed survey and the results used to inform interviews in a second cohort o... Read More about A qualitative evaluation study of erasmus intensive programs (IP) - a contribution to transcultural nursing?.

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 (2013)
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. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop2013.05.25.4.21.e769part2

Aim To investigate the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards working with older people, including their perception of how other professionals perceived their work in gerontology.

Method Data were collected using a 20-item Multifactorial At... Read More about 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.

Attitudes towards caring for older people: literature review and methodology: In the first of two articles, Angela Kydd and Deidre Wild discuss how the specialty could be made a more desirable career choice (2013)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Wild, D. (2013). Attitudes towards caring for older people: literature review and methodology: In the first of two articles, Angela Kydd and Deidre Wild discuss how the specialty could be made a more desirable career choice. Nursing Older People, 25(3), 22-27. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop2013.04.25.3.22.e769

Care of older people is often referred to as a ‘Cinderella’ service and is not seen as an attractive career option in health care, but with the global population continuing to age, caring for this group will become increasingly important.

This art... Read More about Attitudes towards caring for older people: literature review and methodology: In the first of two articles, Angela Kydd and Deidre Wild discuss how the specialty could be made a more desirable career choice.

An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes (2012)
Journal Article
Reid, L., Snowden, A., & Kydd, A. (2012). An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes. British Journal of Nursing, 21, 8-15. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.1.8

This paper suggests that there is an imbalance between the ideal and the actual palliative care provision for some older people living and dying in care homes in Scotland. Successive studies demonstrate that care home residents are increasingly frail... Read More about An exploration of palliative care provision in Scottish care homes.

Flying Start NHS™: easing the transition from student to registered health professional: Transition from student to registered practitioner (2011)
Journal Article
Banks, P., Roxburgh, M., Kane, H., Lauder, W., Jones, M., Kydd, A., & Atkinson, J. (2011). Flying Start NHS™: easing the transition from student to registered health professional: Transition from student to registered practitioner. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 20(23-24), 3567-3576. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03796.x

Aims and objectives. To evaluate the impact and effectiveness of Flying Start NHS™ on the confidence, competence and career development of newly qualified practitioners.

Background. The first year of practice as a registered nurse, midwife, or all... Read More about Flying Start NHS™: easing the transition from student to registered health professional: Transition from student to registered practitioner.

International Collaboration in Gerontological Nursing. (2011)
Journal Article
Touhy, T. A., Kydd, A., Fagerberg, I., & Engstrom, G. (2011). International Collaboration in Gerontological Nursing. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 37(3), 3-4. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20110203-99

The world stands on the threshold of a demographic revolution called global aging. We live in a global world where people travel for holidays and work; for some, migration is the only possible alternative to a precarious situation in their own countr... Read More about International Collaboration in Gerontological Nursing..

Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession (2011)
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 contribution to the modernization of the healthcare system and gain importance... Read More about Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession.

The patient experience of being a delayed discharge (2008)
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2008). The patient experience of being a delayed discharge. Journal of Nursing Management, 16(2), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2834.2008.00848.x

Aim 
To explore what life was like for frail older people, classed as ‘delayed discharges’.
Background 
Delayed discharge or ‘bed blocking’ is when a patient is inappropriately occupying a hospital bed. Most delayed discharges are frail older pe... Read More about The patient experience of being a delayed discharge.

Quality of life in care: The resident's perspective (2005)
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2005). Quality of life in care: The resident's perspective. Nursing & residential care : the monthly journal for care assistants, nurses and managers working in health and social care, 7(1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2005.7.1.17380

Angela Kydd reports on a study that asked older people about their lives. Of those surveyed, 13 were in hospital waiting to be moved to a care home and eight were in settled care home environments.

Strategies to personalize care for older people (2004)
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2004). Strategies to personalize care for older people. Nursing & residential care : the monthly journal for care assistants, nurses and managers working in health and social care, 6(7), 331-333. https://doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2004.6.7.13243

Lack of time and resources can make the provision of person-centred care difficult to achieve. Angela Kydd suggests ways to think creatively about working within existing resources.