Wednesday 20 March 2013
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Concurrent session presentations (where agreed to publish)
1.1 Workforce (Chair: Kate Gerrish)
1.1.1 Do magnet accredited hospitals in the us provide better quality of care? A secondary analysis of patient satisfaction, 30-day mortality and nurse staffing data
Dr Michael Simon, University of Southampton, UK
1.1.2 Implementing and evaluating a nursing and midwifery learning and development plan utilising praxis methodology
Christine Boomer, University of Ulster / South Eastern Trust, UK
1.1.3 Migration matters: the experience of United Kingdom registered nurses migrating to Western Australia
Caroline Vafeas, Edith Cowan University, Australia
1.2 Mental health (Chair: Austyn Snowden)
1.2.1 Tears and tantrums, angels and demons - the lived experience of the therapeutic relationship between women with anorexia and their workers
Karen Wright, University of Central Lancashire, UK
1.2.2 The experiences of caring for an adultchild with schizophrenia conceptualised within the theory of chronic sorrow: a qualitative study
Nollaig Woods, IRL HSE, Dubin North East, Ireland
1.2.3 Mental health nurses` experiences of understanding persons suffering from self harm - a balance between life and death
Randi Tofthagen, Lovisenberg Diaconal University, College, Oslo, Norway
1.3 Cardiac care (Chair Jacqueline Tough)
1.3.1 The impact of patients’ gender and cultural factors in prehospital delay in patients presenting with myocardial infarction in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Hassan Alshahrani, University of Ulster, UK
1.3.2 Illness representations, mood and quality of life 1-3 years after a myocardial infarction
Dr Eliabeth Tolmie, University of Glasgow, UK
1.3.3 Heart failure - the service redesign lessons so far
Laura Lord, University of Birmingham, UK
1.4 User/carer perspective (Chair: Gillian McCorkell)
1.4.1 Living with Parkinson’s Disease: patients’ and caregivers’ everyday perspectives of the process
Dr Maria Carmen Portillo, University of Navarra, Spain
1.4.2 Differences between community professional and patient perceptions of COPD treatment outcomes: a qualitative study
Dr Mary Cooke, University of Manchester, UK
1.4.3 Service users’ views of direct payments
Professor Vivien Coates, Western Health and Social Care Trust, UK
1.5 Maternity care (Chair: Marlene Sinclair)
1.5.1 An international multicentre randomised controlled trial of a pelvic floor muscle training intervention for women with pelvic organ prolapse
Professor Suzanne Hagen, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
1.5.2 Risk assessment and decision making about in labour transfer from rural maternity care: a social judgement and signal detection analysis.
Dr Helen Cheyne, University of Stirling, UK
1.5.3 Identifying the elements which act as facilitators for smoking cessation during pregnancy in RCTs of interventions to promote smoking cessation during pregnancy.
Mary Steele, University of Stirling, UK
1.6 Research methods (Chair: Caroline Bradbury-Jones)
1.6.1 Examining communication in the operating theatre using video-analysis
Sharon-Marie Weldon, Imperial College London, UK
1.6.2 Using case study research as a rigorous form of inquiry
Dr Camille Cronin, University of Essex, UK
1.6.3 ‘Being with’ interpretive research: the analysis process in heideggerian phenomenological research
Anna-Marie Greaney, Dublin City University, Ireland
1.7 Knowledge management & learning (Chair: Annie Topping)
1.7.1 Passing on nursing wisdom
Professor Joan Curzio, London South Bank University, UK
1.7.2 The research nurse: two steps ahead of the role
Professor Sharon Andrew, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK
1.7.3 – ViPER Let’s go seamless!: in support of a revolution in nursing education
Brenna Quinn, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
1.8 Health care support workers (Chair: Michael Traynor)
1.8.1 ‘To keep a person in their own wee corner’! An exploration of the roles and responsibilities of the home help and domiciliary care worker, a grounded theory approach.
Kevin Moore, University of Ulster, UK
1.8.2 The characteristics and workplace activities of nursing auxiliaries and health care assistants
Felicity Hasson, University of Ulster, UK
2.1 Cancer care/ end of life care (Chair: Carol Haigh)
2.1.1 The ‘new normal’ delivering information about oral chemotherapy in the clinic
Dr Anne Arber, University of Surrey, UK
2.1.2 What matters to patients? A qualitative exploration of important outcomes following fragility hip fracture
Dr Kirstie Haywood, University of Warwick, UK
2.1.3 Living with cancer: a phenomenological study exploring the psychosocial experiences of patients with melanoma
Josephine Marange, University Hospitals
Birmingham, UK
2.2 Elderly care (Chair: Sarah Goldberg)
2.2.1 Loneliness and social support of older people living alone in China
Professor Alison While, King’s College London, UK
2.2.2 Home use medical devices and older people
Ross Thomson, University of Nottingham, UK
2.2.3 Implementing a well organised working environment in the community services: a mixed methods study
Dominique Bradley, University of Essex, UK
2.3 End of life care/workforce (Chair: Carolyn Mason)
2.3.1 Organisation of nursing care and its impact on psychosocial support: a mixed methods study
Hazel Hill, University of Stirling, UK
2.3.2 Enhancing confidence and competence in end of life care: pilot and evaluation of an educational pathway for community care staff
Dr Alison Steven, Northumbria University, UK
2.3.3 A systematic review of palliative care research in Ireland
Dr Sonja McIlfatrick , University of Ulster, UK
2.4 Leadership (Chair: Kate Gerrish)
2.4.1 The emotional demands of nursing leadership: challenges and strategies for career sustainability
Professor Debra Jackson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
2.4.2 Exploring the link between leadership, leadership behaviours, organisational culture and motivation in nursing
Dr Julia Egan NHS Tayside, UK
2.4.3 Resonant leadership and workplace empowerment in reducing workplace incivility
Dr Heather Laschinger, The University of Western Ontario,Canada
2.5 Decision-making: (Chair Martyn Jones)
2.5.1 Treating obese patients - what influences our clinical decisions?
Toni McAloon, University of Ulster, UK
2.5.2 Nursing discharge planning interventions impact on elderly’s readiness to be discharged
Cedric Mabire,University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
2.5.3 Decision-making prior to insertion of urinary catheters by nurses is based on perceived imperatives
Martin Kiernan, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, UK
2.6 Children & young people (Chair: Alison Twycross)
2.6.1 Advanced family nursing practice can make a difference for caregivers of children and adolescents in active cancer treatment
Professor Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir , University of Iceland, Iceland
2.6.2 The complexities of parents managing medications for their child with life limiting illness in the home
Carmel Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2.6.3 Interviewing parents of children with lifelimiting conditions: issues and strategies
Dr Katherine Pollard, University of the West of England, UK
2.7 Service innovation (Chair: Sue Latter)
2.7.1 Implementing a well organised working environment in the community services: a mixed methods study
Dominique Bradley,University of Essex, UK
2.7.2 Concordance: a concept analysis
Dr Austyn Snowden, University of the West of Scotland, UK
2.7.3 ‘Let’s join hands and jump together’: readiness and implementation of skill mix change in general practice
Professor Annie Topping, University of Huddersfield, UK
2.8 Public health (Chair: Laura Serrant-Green)
2.8.1 You can’t choose your family... Knowledge spaces and self-management in the dialysis unit
Jonathan Reston, University of Hertfordshire, UK
2.8.2 A qualitative investigation of the responses of healthcare professionals to domestic abuse disclosure: the perspectives of abused women
Dr Caroline Bradbury-Jones, University of Dundee, UK
2.8.3 Patient & public involvement in the English clinical commissioning groups: access, agenda & deliberation.
Dr Patricia Wilson, University of Hertfordshire, UK

