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The relationship between emotional intelligence, previous caring experience and mindfulness in student nurses and midwives: a cross sectional analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Stenhouse, R., Young, J., Carver, H., Carver, F., & Brown, N. (2015). The relationship between emotional intelligence, previous caring experience and mindfulness in student nurses and midwives: a cross sectional analysis. Nurse Education Today, 35(1), 152-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2014.09.004

Background: Emotional Intelligence (EI), previous caring experience and mindfulness training may have a
positive impact on nurse education. More evidence is needed to support the use of these variables in nurse
recruitment and retention.
Objective... Read More about The relationship between emotional intelligence, previous caring experience and mindfulness in student nurses and midwives: a cross sectional analysis.

Developing and sustaining a culture of innovation in Health Higher Education literature review. (2014)
Report
Lewitt, M. S., Snowden, A., & Sheward, L. (2014). Developing and sustaining a culture of innovation in Health Higher Education literature review. Scotland: Higher Education Academy/ Council of Deans

This literature review set out to review the recent literature on cultures of innovation and summarise how they are developed, sustained and extended, including the associated barriers and enablers, in a way that is relevant to health HE and which ca... Read More about Developing and sustaining a culture of innovation in Health Higher Education literature review..

Adjustment to the need for an ICD. (2014)
Journal Article
McCaig, M., Orr, J., Snowden, A., Collins, G., Thomson, A., & Marland, G. (2014). Adjustment to the need for an ICD. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 9(3), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2014.9.3.117

The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is an electrical medical device designed to monitor the electrical activity of the heart and is set to deliver a programmed, corrective defibrillatory discharge, or shock, on encountering abnormal card... Read More about Adjustment to the need for an ICD..

Assessment and care planning for cancer survivors: a concise evidence review. (2014)
Report
Snowden, A., & White, C. (2014). Assessment and care planning for cancer survivors: a concise evidence review. London, UK: Macmillan Cancer

This concise review examines the evidence for Holistic Needs Assessment
(HNA) in cancer survivors. It takes a structured approach by categorising
levels of evidence pertaining to a series of specific statements.
We therefore begin with summary def... Read More about Assessment and care planning for cancer survivors: a concise evidence review..

Tracking emotional intelligence. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stenhouse, R., Snowden, A., & Young, J. (2014, January). Tracking emotional intelligence. Paper presented at Research, Innovation, recruitment, retention: student nurse and midwives

The role of research in the mental health nurse consultant. (2013)
Journal Article
Barron, D., Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2013). The role of research in the mental health nurse consultant. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2, 93-98. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2013.2.2.93

Using a facilitated discussion forum, a group of mental health nurse consultants in Scotland, along with senior clinical nurse leaders, sought to better understand their collective research contribution along with potential barriers that may exist. T... Read More about The role of research in the mental health nurse consultant..

Community Chaplaincy listening: practical theology in action. (2013)
Journal Article
Bunniss, S., Mowat, H., & Snowden, A. (2013). Community Chaplaincy listening: practical theology in action. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 42-51

What we know already
Patients, GPs and chaplains reported very positively overall on the first pilot of the Community Chaplaincy Listening (CCL) service. NHS Managers, GPs and patients would like to see CCL as part of the continuing provision of NHS... Read More about Community Chaplaincy listening: practical theology in action..

Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients. (2013)
Journal Article
Howard, N., Snowden, A., Telfer, I., & Waller, R. (2013). Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients. Health and Social Care Chaplaincy, 1, https://doi.org/10.1558/hscc.v1i1.35

The aim of this project is to improve understanding of the spiritual needs of inpatients and to establish how well these are recognized and met. Interviews were carried out with 13 patients, who had seen a chaplain, to ascertain their spiritual needs... Read More about Recognizing and Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Hospital Inpatients..

Listening as health care. (2013)
Journal Article
Mowat, H., Bunniss, S., Snowden, A., & Wright, L. (2013). Listening as health care. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 35-41

What we know already
Listening is an essential part of caring practice. Being listened to and telling our story is in itself therapeutic and life affirming. Listening is time consuming and whilst acknowledged as central to care in practice is hard t... Read More about Listening as health care..

Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. (2013)
Report
Snowden, A., & MacArthur, E. (2013). Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index. Edinburgh, Scotland: NHS SCotland

Using a novel combination of Rasch and factor analysis showed the index to a) measure the latent trait of employee engagement and b) be constructed from the four factors underpinning its theoretical development. This work led to the tool being adopte... Read More about Validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index..

I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care. (2013)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013). I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 13-22

What we know already
Specialist spiritual care can be broken down into discrete items within a questionnaire when grounded in the theory developed in the previous paper. However, in order to test whether this project is meaningful the resultant Loth... Read More about I was able to talk about what was on my mind: the operationalisation of person centred care..

Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions. (2013)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Kelly, E., Bunniss, S., & Mowat, H. (2013). Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions. Scottish Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy, 16, 23

What we know already. The Lothian PROM has shown us that chaplaincy benefitted all in this sample not just the faithful, religious or spiritual. However, this deduction arose from statistical analysis of tick box responses in the previous paper. Whil... Read More about Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions..

Concordance: a concept analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Martin, C., Mathers, B., & Donnell, A. (2013). Concordance: a concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70, 46-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12147

Aim
To report an analysis of the concept of concordance.

Background
Adherence-based medicines interventions are known to be of limited success. Concordance appears to offer an alternative approach consistent with person-centred approaches to dec... Read More about Concordance: a concept analysis.

Concordance: A concept analysis. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Snowden, A. (2013, October). Concordance: A concept analysis. Paper presented at 39th International Mental Health Nursing Conference Collaboration and Partnership in Mental Health Nursing

Adherence based medicines interventions are known to be of limited success. Concordance offers an ethically superior approach as it is grounded in the principle of collaboration. However, the application of concordance in practice appears inconsisten... Read More about Concordance: A concept analysis..

Symposium: MEDICODE A comprehensive coding method to describe content and dialogue in medication discussions in healthcare provider-patient encounters: Perspectives from Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lussier, M.-T., Richard, C., Guirguis, L., Goldman, R., Snowden, A., Latter, S., & Sibley, A. (2013, September). Symposium: MEDICODE A comprehensive coding method to describe content and dialogue in medication discussions in healthcare provider-patient encounters: Perspectives from Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. Paper presented at International Conference on Communication in Healthcare

Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost? (2013)
Journal Article
Kane, G. M., Snowden, A., & Martin, C. R. (2013). Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost?. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2(1), 28-36. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2013.2.1.28

Empathy is a key dimension within the philosophical architecture of everyday mental health nursing practice. Surprisingly, there have been few investigations on this important psychological domain in mental health practitioners. This investigation so... Read More about Empathy in mental health nursing: learned, acquired or lost?.