All Outputs (30)

Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature. (2018)
Journal Article
Luiking, M., Heckemann, B., Ali, P., Dekker-van Doorn, C., Ghosh, S., Kydd, A., …Patel, H. (2019). Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(1), 58-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12442

Purpose: Worldwide, more than 214 million people have left their country of origin. Such unprecedented mass migration impacts on health care in host countries. This paper explores and synthesizes literature on the health care experiences of migrants.... Read More about Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature..

What makes a nursing home homely? A Scottish based study, using Q methodology of the perceptions of staff, residents and significant others (2018)
Journal Article
Fleming, A., & Kydd, A. (2018). What makes a nursing home homely? A Scottish based study, using Q methodology of the perceptions of staff, residents and significant others. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987118757837

Background: A ‘homely’ nursing or care home is of international interest and comes from a wide variety of academic disciplines and from policy makers and charities. However, ‘homeliness’ is a dynamic and complex concept and one worthy of further in... Read More about What makes a nursing home homely? A Scottish based study, using Q methodology of the perceptions of staff, residents and significant others.

An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography (2018)
Journal Article
Reid, L., Kydd, A., & Slater, B. (2018). An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987118756477

This paper provides an institutional ethnographic analysis of how discussions and advance decisions about serious illness, hospital admission and Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation forms have been systematically placed into the hands of Se... Read More about An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography.

Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits (2017)
Journal Article
Mackay, W. G., MacIntosh, T., Kydd, A., Fleming, A., O'Kane, C., Shepherd, A., …McIver, V. (2018). Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(3-4), 866-875. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14117

Aims and Objective: To explore the experiences of community patients living with a urethral catheter and those caring for them. Background: Living at home with an indwelling urethral catheter often results in consequences that create a double-edge... Read More about Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits.

Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students? (2017)
Journal Article
Mullen, R. F., Kydd, A., Fleming, A., & McMillan, L. (2017). Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students?. Nursing Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733017720825

Background: Despite growing interest in the potential of nursing education to enhance dignity in nursing care, relatively little is known about what dignity means to nursing students. Research question: What meaning does dignity in nursing care have... Read More about Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students?.

Prescribing for the Oldest Old (2017)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Fleming, A. (2017). Prescribing for the Oldest Old. Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine, 7(5 (supp.)), https://doi.org/10.4172/2165-7386-C1-010

Given the global increase in people over the age of 85, there is a growing body of literature looking at treating the oldest old. However much of this work is confined to the literature specialising in geriatrics and the more generic health care pap... Read More about Prescribing for the Oldest Old.

Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live (2017)
Journal Article
Fleming, A., Kydd, A., & Stewart, S. (2017). Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live. Maturitas, 99, 92-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2017.02.013

This paper reports on part of a doctoral study which explored stakeholder perceptions of the importance of a homelike environment in a care home and which factors contributed to this. The changes in institutional care for older people have evolved fr... Read More about Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live.

Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation (2016)
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016). Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation. Nursing Older People, 28(8), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e790

This article is the second of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. In this article, the authors describe their independent development and facilitation of a flexible learning programme for care homes, designed... Read More about Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation.

Culture change in care homes: a literature review. (2016)
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016). Culture change in care homes: a literature review. Nursing Older People, 28(7), 35-39. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e789

This article is the first of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. A UK care home company sought the authors’ expertise to design and facilitate an independent programme of learning to encourage and support staf... Read More about Culture change in care homes: a literature review..

Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’ (2016)
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016). Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’. Nursing Older People, 28(5), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.28.5.31.s26

This article describes digital skills training (DST) for staff and later, residents, as part of a programme of culture change in a large care home with nursing in Glasgow. It presents the successes and challenges arising from DST from the perspective... Read More about Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’.

What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old (2016)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Fleming, A. (2016). What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old. Maturitas, 90, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.05.003

Given the global increase in the number of people over the age of 85, there is a growing body of work concerning this group, termed the oldest old. Much of this work is confined to the literature specialising in geriatrics and the more generic health... Read More about What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old.

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?.