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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.

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., Hagen, S., Williams, C., Mundie, J., Russell, C., Rodgers, F., MacLachlan, M., Galbraith, R., Rankin, J., & 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?.

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.

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..

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.

International Collaboration in Gerontological Nursing. (2011)
Journal Article
Touhy, T. A., Kydd, A., Fagerberg, I., & Engstrom, G. (2011). International Collaboration in Gerontological Nursing. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 37(3), 3-4. https://doi.org/10.3928/00989134-20110203-99

The world stands on the threshold of a demographic revolution called global aging. We live in a global world where people travel for holidays and work; for some, migration is the only possible alternative to a precarious situation in their own countr... Read More about International Collaboration in Gerontological Nursing..

Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession (2011)
Journal Article
Savič, B., & Kydd, A. (2011). Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession. Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 50(4), https://doi.org/10.2478/v10152-011-0007-3

Introduction: As the population needs for health care at the local level become integrated into the global context, nurses are given the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the modernization of the healthcare system and gain importance... Read More about Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession.

The patient experience of being a delayed discharge (2008)
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2008). The patient experience of being a delayed discharge. Journal of Nursing Management, 16(2), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2834.2008.00848.x

Aim 
To explore what life was like for frail older people, classed as ‘delayed discharges’.
Background 
Delayed discharge or ‘bed blocking’ is when a patient is inappropriately occupying a hospital bed. Most delayed discharges are frail older pe... Read More about The patient experience of being a delayed discharge.