Friday 27 March 2009
Concurrent session presentations (where agreed to publish)
9.1 Student learning/clinical placement issues (Chair: Caroline Bradbury-Jones)
9.1.1 Factors which facilitate or hinder students nurses’ implementation of skills in the clinical area
Catherine Houghton, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Co-authors: Dympna Casey; Kathy Murphy; David Shaw
9.1.2 Exploration of learning environments in healthcare settings
Camille Cronin, Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, Southend on Sea, UK
9.1.3 Student support on placement: The student experience and staff perceptions of the implementation of placement development teams
Graham Williamson, Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK. Co-authors: Lynne Callaghan; Emma Whittlesea
9.2 Communication / children and parents (Chair: Julie Taylor)
9.2.1 Verbal communication with unconscious patients
João Simões, Escola Superior de Saúde, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. Co-authors: Luis Jesus; David Voegeli
9.2.2 Parents’ experiences of their child’s chronic illness
Sandra Oldfield, School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Co-authors: Guida DeAbreu; Luci
Wiggs
9.3 Assessing and planning care (Chair: Janelle Yorke)
9.3.1 ‘It goes without saying’: Understanding the taken for granted in nursing practice. A qualitative exploration of what constitutes nursing assessment
Jennifer Beckwith, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Co-authors: Angela Dickinson; Sally Kendall
9.3.2 An exploratory study to identify the range of activities undertaken by qualified nurses in a general medical ward
Alison Evans, Corporate Nursing, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK
9.3.3 The social organisation of care pathway development: from boundary concept to boundary object
Davina Allen, Health and Social Care Research Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
9.4 Community (Chair: Val Woodward)
9.4.1 Participatory community research: Reflections on a study of the socio-cultural factors influencing an understanding of TB within the Somali community
Kate Gerrish, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Co-authors: Mubarak Ismail; Andy Naisby
9.4.2 Ready, willing and able? Specialist community public health nurses’ views of their public health role
Gill Coverdale, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
9.4.3 How do community nurses learn skills of cultural competence?
Julia Quickfall, Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
9.5 Nursing students/ Clinical supervision (Chair: Carol Haigh)
9.5.1 Still learning and working? Nursing students experiences of work-based placements
Erica Alabaster, School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
9.5.2 Stress and coping in nursing students
Chris Gibbons, Nursing, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Co-authors: Martin Dempster; Marian Moutray
9.5.3 Clinical supervision: Findings from an Australian randomised controlled trial
Edward White, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Co-author: Julie Winstanley
9.6 Knowledge translation/Evidence based practice (Chair: Nikki Lloyd-Jones)
9.6.1 Intuition and evidence: Findings from focus group research into nurses and decisionmaking
Michael Traynor, School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, London, UK. Co-author: Maggie Boland
9.6.2 Critical conceptions of knowledge translation: Fostering social justice, equity and cultural safety
Sheryl Reimer Kirkham, Trinity Western University, Langley, British Colombia, Canada
9.6.3 Institutionalizing evidence-based nursing practice: An organizational case study using a model of strategic change
Jo Rycroft-Malone, Centre for Health-Related Research, University of Wales, Bangor, UK. Co-authors: Cheryl Stetler; Judith
Ritchie; Alyce Shultz; Martin Charns
9.7 Stroke care (Chair: Christine Smith)
9.7.1 The organisational context of nursing care in stroke units
Christopher Burton, School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK. Co-authors: Andrea Fisher; Theresa Green
9.7.2 Mapping the evidence for long-term need: An example from stroke
Beverley French, Department of Nursing, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Co-authors: Christopher Burton;
Paola Dey; Peter Langhorne; Michael Leathley; Shankar Loharuka; Jenny Marsden; Joanna McAdam; Christopher Price; Kate Radford; Helen Rodgers; Catherine Sackley; Anil Sharma; Christopher Sutton; Marion Walker; Caroline Watkins
9.7.3 A survey of urinary continence care practices in Scottish stroke care settings
Katharine Jamieson, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, Glasgow Caledonian University,
Glasgow, UK. Co-authors: Marian Brady; Suzanne Hagen; Peter Langhorne; Ann Capewell; Carol Bugge; Doreen McClurg; Campbell Chalmers
9.8 Collaboration (Chair: Sharon Hamilton)
9.8.1 Networking in nursing: The future of working together
Paul Horan, School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, The University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Co-authors: Michael Brown; Fiona Timmins
9.8.2 Cross-boundary working involving nurses
Alison While, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, UK. Co-authors: Billie Coomber; Freda Mold; Angus Forbes
9.8.3 Providing person centred care through partnership working in intermediate
Valerie Thomas, School of Health Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK. Co-author: Valerie Thomas

