Dr Sandra Sharp's Outputs (11)

Workforce redesign: A quality improvement project to develop and implement a bespoke instrument to match patients’ needs to skill mix in NHS Lothian (2024)
Journal Article
McAuley, G., Seville, L., Corcoran, J., Forrest, S., & Sharp, S. (online). Workforce redesign: A quality improvement project to develop and implement a bespoke instrument to match patients’ needs to skill mix in NHS Lothian. Health Policy OPEN, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpopen.2024.100133

Nursing workforce shortages impact care delivery. Effective delegation of tasks is one solution to ensure that all healthcare professionals work to their full scope of practice to deliver person-centred care. Workforce redesign can be an effective me... Read More about Workforce redesign: A quality improvement project to develop and implement a bespoke instrument to match patients’ needs to skill mix in NHS Lothian.

Ensuring robust OSCE assessments: a reflective account from a Scottish School of Nursing (2024)
Journal Article
Sharp, S., Snowden, A., Stables, I., & Paterson, R. (2024). Ensuring robust OSCE assessments: a reflective account from a Scottish School of Nursing. Nurse Education in Practice, 78, Article 104021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104021

Aim
This paper reflects on the experience of one Scottish University in conducting a face-to-face Objective Structured Examination (OSCE) for large cohorts of student nurses. It outlines the challenges experienced and learning gained.

Borton’s mo... Read More about Ensuring robust OSCE assessments: a reflective account from a Scottish School of Nursing.

Workforce redesign through the development and use of a bespoke measurement instrument (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S., McAuley, G., Seville, L., Corcoran, J., & Forrest, S. (2024, April). Workforce redesign through the development and use of a bespoke measurement instrument. Poster presented at International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, London, UK

The link between the number of registered nurses providing care, and the quality of that care is well documented. Fewer registered nurses is associated with negative patient outcomes, including delayed discharge, falls, medication errors, failure to... Read More about Workforce redesign through the development and use of a bespoke measurement instrument.

Fostering Resilience in others (2019)
Book Chapter
Sharp, S. (2019). Fostering Resilience in others. In Empowerment Strategies for Nurses: Developing Resilience in Practice (181-195). (Second Edition). Springer

This unique resource delivers proven strategies to help nurses overcome stressors and challenges when—and even before—they arise. Featuring seven new chapters and new authors, the second edition reflects the latest research on resilience and wellbein... Read More about Fostering Resilience in others.

Power plays, passive aggression and compliance: What gets lost when nurses join the team? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharp, S. (2019, May). Power plays, passive aggression and compliance: What gets lost when nurses join the team?. Paper presented at 17th Qualitative Methods Conference, Brisbane, Australia

Negative interactions and bullying in the workplace are commonplace and can cause nurses to experience harmful emotions, burnout and increased intention to leave. It is likely that this impacts on nurses’ relationships with patients. This paper explo... Read More about Power plays, passive aggression and compliance: What gets lost when nurses join the team?.

The tension between person centred and task focused care in an acute surgical setting: A critical ethnography (2017)
Journal Article
Sharp, S., Mcallister, M., & Broadbent, M. (2017). The tension between person centred and task focused care in an acute surgical setting: A critical ethnography. Collegian, 25(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2017.02.002

Problem: Person centred care is a key indicator of quality care and a policy direction in many hospitals yet some patients experience care that falls short of this standard.
Background: Health services worldwide are prioritising the delivery of pers... Read More about The tension between person centred and task focused care in an acute surgical setting: A critical ethnography.

What is lost when nurses join the team? (2016)
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?.

Reorienting cultures of nursing care through the development of a psychosocial safe space (2016)
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.

Don’t nurses care anymore? An investigation into the apparent decline of empathy in nursing (2016)
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.

Efficiency and Compassion: Uneasy Bedfellows? The Impact of Workplace Culture on the Provision of Person Centred Care (2015)
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.

The vital blend of clinical competence and compassion: How patients experience person-centred care (2015)
Journal Article
Sharp, S., McAllister, M., & Broadbent, M. (2015). The vital blend of clinical competence and compassion: How patients experience person-centred care. Contemporary Nurse, 52(2-3), 300-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2015.1020981

Background: Person-centred care is a policy priority for health services seeking to assure the public they provide safe, high-quality care, in keeping with rising consumer expectations. However, study of person-centred care rarely includes acute-care... Read More about The vital blend of clinical competence and compassion: How patients experience person-centred care.