All Outputs (9)

A Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess the Effectiveness of Using Patient Reported Needs and Psychological Information to Guide Care in a Breast Cancer Follow-up Clinic. (2015)
Journal Article
Cruickshank, S., Barber, M., Donaldson, J. H., Raeside, R., & Gray, M. (2015). A Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess the Effectiveness of Using Patient Reported Needs and Psychological Information to Guide Care in a Breast Cancer Follow-up Clinic. Cancer Nursing, 38, S1-S106

Approximately 550,000–570,000 women are alive in the UK who have had a diagnosis of breast cancer with predictions that this will rise by 3% annually. Most receive follow-up care in a hospital setting and the value of this approach has been questione... Read More about A Randomised Controlled Trial to Assess the Effectiveness of Using Patient Reported Needs and Psychological Information to Guide Care in a Breast Cancer Follow-up Clinic..

Towards a values-based person specification for recruitment of compassionate nursing and midwifery candidates: A study of registered and student nurses' and midwives' perceptions of prerequisite attributes and key skills (2014)
Journal Article
Waugh, A., Smith, D., Horsburgh, D., & Gray, M. (2014). Towards a values-based person specification for recruitment of compassionate nursing and midwifery candidates: A study of registered and student nurses' and midwives' perceptions of prerequisite attr

Summary Selection and retention of preregistration nursing and midwifery students are issues that exercise educators, universities and commissioning bodies both nationally and internationally. It has recently become an expectation that a values-ba... Read More about Towards a values-based person specification for recruitment of compassionate nursing and midwifery candidates: A study of registered and student nurses' and midwives' perceptions of prerequisite attributes and key skills.

Systematic review of grading practice: Is there evidence of grade inflation? (2012)
Journal Article
Donaldson, J. H., & Gray, M. (2012). Systematic review of grading practice: Is there evidence of grade inflation?. Nurse Education in Practice, 12, 101-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2011.10.007

Systematic Review of Grading Practice: Is there evidence of grade inflation? This paper describes the outcomes of a systematic review of literature pertaining to the grading of practice within nursing, midwifery, medicine and allied health profession... Read More about Systematic review of grading practice: Is there evidence of grade inflation?.

Evaluation Overview: Physicians Assistants (Anaesthesia). (2010)
Journal Article
Gray, M., Donaldson, J. H., Hendry, S., McKeown, D., Page, L., Scholes, J., & Smith, F. C. (2009). Evaluation Overview: Physicians Assistants (Anaesthesia). Technic, 1, (6-7). ISSN 1756-1132

Evaluation overview of the Physicians Assistant (Anaesthesia) programme in Scotland from an independent research study.

Integrating physician assistants into the practice setting (2010)
Journal Article
Gray, M., Smith, F. C., McKeown, D., Donaldson, J. H., Hendry, S., Page, L., & Scholes, J. (2010). Integrating physician assistants into the practice setting. Nursing Management, 17, 23-27

Findings from a Scottish-based evaluation study explored some of the issues related to integrating Physicians Assistants (Anaesthesia) as a new role into the NHS across Scotland.

Making portfolios work in practice (2004)
Journal Article
Scholes, J., Webb, C., Gray, M., Endacott, R., Miller, C., Jasper, M., & McMullan, M. (2004). Making portfolios work in practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 46(6), 595-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03050.x

Background. A portfolio captures learning from experience, enables an assessor to measure student learning, acts as a tool for reflective thinking, illustrates critical analytical skills and evidence of self-directed learning and provides a collectio... Read More about Making portfolios work in practice.

Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many? (2004)
Journal Article
Oberski *, I. M., Matthews‐Smith, G., Gray, M., & Carter, D. E. (2004). Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 41(2), 207-221. https://doi.org/10.1080/1

This paper presents and discusses the evaluation of a module on the care for older people in the community, designed through an analysis of educational needs in the local nurse population. The module was problem-based and students were assessed throu... Read More about Assessing problem‐based learning with practice portfolios: one innovation too many?.

Using portfolios in the assessment of learning and competence: the impact of four models (2004)
Journal Article
Gray, M. A., Endacott, R., Gray, M., Jasper, M. A., McMullan, M., Miller, C., Scholes, J., & Webb, C. (2004). Using portfolios in the assessment of learning and competence: the impact of four models. Nurse Education in Practice, 4(4), 250-257. https://doi

This paper discusses the diversity of portfolio use highlighted in a study funded by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting exploring the effectiveness of portfolios in assessing learning and competence (Endacott et al.... Read More about Using portfolios in the assessment of learning and competence: the impact of four models.

Portfolios and assessment of competence: a review of the literature (2003)
Journal Article
McMullan, M., Endacott, R., Gray, M. A., Jasper, M., Miller, C. M., Scholes, J., & Webb, C. (2003). Portfolios and assessment of competence: a review of the literature. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 41(3), 283-294. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.

BACKGROUND: The literature review presented here was conducted as part of an English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting funded project to evaluate the use of portfolios in the assessment of learning and competence. Initial cons... Read More about Portfolios and assessment of competence: a review of the literature.