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Exploring stakeholder experiences for the MMR and HPV vaccines: A qualitative study in progress.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kennedy, C., Gray Brunton, C., McIntosh, P., & Hogg, R. (2010, April). Exploring stakeholder experiences for the MMR and HPV vaccines: A qualitative study in progress. Paper presented at Scottish School of Primary Care Conference

Background: Childhood immunisation is an important public health issue which protects against infectious diseases. Uptake of vaccines is complex in the literature with various barriers and facilitating influences implicated. These influences have be... Read More about Exploring stakeholder experiences for the MMR and HPV vaccines: A qualitative study in progress..

Symposium: Compassionate Care in Action: Meeting the Challenge of Complexity- Embedding leadership in compassionate care into undergraduate nursing and midwifery curricula: initial findings from an action research study.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
King, L., Donaldson, J. H., Adamson, E., Moody, J., Waugh, A., & Smith, S. (2009, March). Symposium: Compassionate Care in Action: Meeting the Challenge of Complexity- Embedding leadership in compassionate care into undergraduate nursing and midwifery curricula: initial findings from an action research study. Paper presented at RCN Research Conference

Efficiency and Compassion: Uneasy Bedfellows? The Impact of Workplace Culture on the Provision of Person Centred Care
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S. (2015, November). Efficiency and Compassion: Uneasy Bedfellows? The Impact of Workplace Culture on the Provision of Person Centred Care. Paper presented at Australasian Nurse Educators Conference, Auckland, New Zealand

Introduction: Students and qualified nurses often cite a motivation to care for people as their reason for entering the profession. Patients also value human connection and expect compassionate care. However, acute clinical environments do not always... Read More about Efficiency and Compassion: Uneasy Bedfellows? The Impact of Workplace Culture on the Provision of Person Centred Care.

Don’t nurses care anymore? An investigation into the apparent decline of empathy in nursing
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., Broadbent, M., & Mcallister, M. (2016, July). Don’t nurses care anymore? An investigation into the apparent decline of empathy in nursing. Paper presented at Empathy3, Oxford, UK

Empathy and compassion are expected in all nurses and required for person-centred care. However, common public discourse has tended to focus on patient experiences of nursing care that lacked empathy and which subsequently led to negative health outc... Read More about Don’t nurses care anymore? An investigation into the apparent decline of empathy in nursing.

Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., Broadbent, M., & Mcallister, M. (2016, October). Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space. Paper presented at 2nd Critical Perspectives in Nursing and Health Care, Sydney, Australia

Building on the findings of a critical ethnography that investigated the impact of workplace culture on the delivery of person centred care in an acute surgical ward in regional Queensland, this presentation outlines a solution to the problem of dehu... Read More about Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space.

What is lost when nurses join the team?
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., Broadbent, M., & Mcallister, M. (2016, October). What is lost when nurses join the team?. Paper presented at 2nd Critical Perspectives in Nursing & Healthcare Conference, Sydney, Australia

Most nurses, when asked why they joined the profession, would state ‘to care for people’. Equally, popular discourse depicts nurses as caring and conjures up images of self-sacrifice, altruism and ‘angels’. This perspective is shared by the nursing p... Read More about What is lost when nurses join the team?.