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Bruce Harper-McDonald's Outputs (17)

Effects of student-led drama on nursing students' attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: A pre-test post-test educational intervention study (2023)
Journal Article
Kyle, R. G., Bastow, F., Harper-Mcdonald, B., Jeram, T., Zahid, Z., Nizamuddin, M., & Mahoney, C. (2023). Effects of student-led drama on nursing students' attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: A pre-test post-test educational intervention study. Nurse Education Today, 123, Article 105743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2023.105743

Nursing educators need to equip students to work in interprofessional teams and advocate for patients in increasingly integrated health and social care settings. Drama-based education has been used in nursing to help students understand complex conce... Read More about Effects of student-led drama on nursing students' attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: A pre-test post-test educational intervention study.

Critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning when advanced practitioners assess and treat skin conditions (2021)
Journal Article
McPhillips, H., Wood, A. F., & Harper-McDonald, B. (2021). Critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning when advanced practitioners assess and treat skin conditions. British Journal of Nursing, 30(22), 1278-1286. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.22.1278

Advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) roles require a broad range of knowledge of both medical and surgical medicine and the ability to work autonomously in a variety of settings. Despite around half of the UK adult population presenting with a skin c... Read More about Critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning when advanced practitioners assess and treat skin conditions.

Conducting a consultation and clinical assessment of the skin for advanced clinical practitioners (2021)
Journal Article
McPhillips, H., Wood, A. F., & Harper-McDonald, B. (2021). Conducting a consultation and clinical assessment of the skin for advanced clinical practitioners. British Journal of Nursing, 30(21), 1232-1236. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.21.1232

Advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) roles require a broad range of knowledge of both medical and surgical areas and the ability to work autonomously in a variety of settings. Despite around half of the UK adult population presenting with a skin cond... Read More about Conducting a consultation and clinical assessment of the skin for advanced clinical practitioners.

Challenges in achieving immediate skin-to-skin contact following birth by elective caesarean section: a narrative review of the literature (2021)
Journal Article
Kelly, L., & Harper-McDonald, B. (2021). Challenges in achieving immediate skin-to-skin contact following birth by elective caesarean section: a narrative review of the literature. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 31(1), 96-100

Background: The benefits of immediate safe, observed, skin-to-skin contact following birth are well documented and established best practice following vaginal birth in the United Kingdom (UK). However, women who deliver their babies by caesarean secti... Read More about Challenges in achieving immediate skin-to-skin contact following birth by elective caesarean section: a narrative review of the literature.

District nurses' experiences with a caseload profiling tool: a service evaluation (2020)
Journal Article
Harper-Mcdonald, B. (2020). District nurses' experiences with a caseload profiling tool: a service evaluation. British Journal of Community Nursing, 25(7), 318-326. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.7.318

Caseload profiling is being advocated as a method to measure, manage and evidence increasingly complex caseloads in district nursing. However, there is no qualitative work on district nurses’ experiences of applying caseload profiling to their caselo... Read More about District nurses' experiences with a caseload profiling tool: a service evaluation.

Expert nurse to novice academic: Reflections on the first year of transition from practitioner to academic (2020)
Journal Article
Harper-McDonald, B., & Taylor, G. (2020). Expert nurse to novice academic: Reflections on the first year of transition from practitioner to academic. Nurse Education Today, 90, Article 104431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104431

Harper-McDonald, B., & Taylor, G. (2020). Expert nurse to novice academic: Reflections on the first year of transition from practitioner to academic. Nurse Education Today, 90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104431

Empowering through authentic experience: dramatic digital, and improvement approaches to enhance learning. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harper-McDonald, B., Bastow, F., & Smart, A. (2019, September). Empowering through authentic experience: dramatic digital, and improvement approaches to enhance learning. Presented at 30th International Networking for Healthcare Education Conference, Keele University

Paper 1 explores the impact of a theatrical production, based on a real story, aimed at enhancing student nurse understanding of the challenges individuals face in accessing services. The play is based on the author’s experience as carer for their so... Read More about Empowering through authentic experience: dramatic digital, and improvement approaches to enhance learning..

Caseload profiling in district nursing: a systematic literature review (2018)
Journal Article
Harper-McDonald, B., & Baguley, F. (2018). Caseload profiling in district nursing: a systematic literature review. British Journal of Community Nursing, 23(11), 544-549. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2018.23.11.544

This systematic literature review aims to identify and appraise current evidence to establish if caseload profiling (CP) provides a strategy to support district nurses to evidence and manage increasingly complex caseloads. A total of 17 studies where... Read More about Caseload profiling in district nursing: a systematic literature review.

Celebrating 70 Years of Nursing and Midwifery in NHS Scotland (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Taylor, G., Harper-McDonald, B., O'Conner, S., McLuckie, C., & Moran, M. Celebrating 70 Years of Nursing and Midwifery in NHS Scotland. Exhibited at Edinburgh. 7 June 2018. (Unpublished)

An exhibition celebrating 70 years of nursing and midwifery in NHS Scotland.

The District Nurse's role: Caseload Profiling, the journey from academia to effective practice implementation (2015)
Journal Article
Harper-Mcdonald, B., & Baguley, F. (2015). The District Nurse's role: Caseload Profiling, the journey from academia to effective practice implementation. Communicare, 1(2),

This article looks at one student's journey in taking theory and applying it to practice by caseload profiling on practice placement and how this has subsequently led to practice development. It is widely appreciated that demographics are impacting o... Read More about The District Nurse's role: Caseload Profiling, the journey from academia to effective practice implementation.

Dramatic Effect - enhancing nurse education through performance
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mahoney, C., Bastow, F., & Harper-McDonald, B. (2019, September). Dramatic Effect - enhancing nurse education through performance. Paper presented at RAISE Annual Conference, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Health and social care integration (HCI) is an important policy priority across the United Kingdom. HCI is a complex process, not least because it results in blurring and redefinition of professional roles. Because nurses are at the forefront of HCI... Read More about Dramatic Effect - enhancing nurse education through performance.

Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kyle, R., Bastow, F., Harper McDonald, B., & Mahoney, C. (2022, September). Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study. Paper presented at NET Conference 2022, Lancaster

In this session we share findings from our study examining the impact of the use of drama-based education on student nurses’ attitudes towards interprofessional working and nursing advocacy. We discuss the development and evaluation of two plays crea... Read More about Drama-based education improves student nurses’ attitudes to interprofessional working and nursing advocacy: a pre-test post-test study.