Wednesday 25 March 2009
Concurrent session presentations (where agreed to publish)
3.1 Wound care (Chair: Colin Torrance)
3.1.1 Results of a randomised controlled trial comparing honey to conventional treatment in wound care and the
problems arising during the course of the trial
Val Robson, General Surgery, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK. Co-authors: Susanna Dodd; Steve Thomas
3.1.2 The ‘gold’ standard problem in researching the diagnosis of wound infection
Julie Santy, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull, UK
3.2 Obesity (Chair: Annie Topping)
3.2.1 Sagittal abdominal diameter: An alternative method of measuring abdominal obesity
Valerie Shephard, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK
3.2.2 An ethnographic study of student nurses’ care of obese patients
Alexandra Sardani, School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea, Swansea, UK. Co-authors: Susan M. Philpin;
Daniel Warm
3.3 Recruitment and retention (Chair: Leslie Gelling)
3.3.1 Motivation to nurse: What is the place of vocation and altruism in primary care careers?
Melody Carter, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
3.3.2 Leadership, job satisfaction and clinical wisdom: A hermeneutic study of charge and clinical nurses´ experiences
Lisbeth Uhrenfeldt, Clinical Nursing Research Unit, Horsens Regional Hospital, Horsens, Denmark
3.4 Long term care (Chair: Joy Merrell)
3.4.1 Meeting the needs of individuals with complex long term conditions in the community: Exploring professionals’ experiences
Fiona Ross, Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, Kingston University, St George’s University of London, London, UK. Co-author: Sara Christian
3.4.2 Human rights in nursing homes
Natalie Yates-Bolton, School of Nursing, University of Salford, Salford, UK
3.5 Termination and miscarriage (Chair: Marlene Sinclair)
3.5.1 Termination of pregnancy: Implications for nurses
Allyson Lipp, Faculty of Health, Sport and Science, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK
3.5.2 Early miscarriage as ‘matter out of place’
Fiona Murphy, School of Health Science, University of Wales Swansea, UK
3.6 Long term care (Chair: Tracey Williamson)
3.6.1 Evaluating the outcomes of intermediate care. Whose quality of life is it anyway?
Valerie Thomas, School of Health Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
3.6.2 Self-management in long term conditions: Developing a typology of the expert patient
Patricia Wilson, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK. Co-authors: Sally Kendall; Fiona Brooks
3.7 Young people/parenting (Chair: Tony Long)
3.7.1 Evaluation of a school-based sexual health drop-in service for young people living in areas of high deprivation
Debra Salmon, School of Maternal and Child Health, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Co-author: Jenny Ingram
3.7.2 ‘Granny School’ – Evaluation of a parenting skills course for grandparents
Jo Corlett, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. Co-authors: Julie Taylor; Carol Murray
3.8 Professional Roles (Chair: Val Woodward)
3.8.1 Assistant or substitute: Ambiguities in the role descriptions of assistant practitioners
Ann Wakefield, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Co-authors: Karen Spilsbury; Karl Atkinson; Hugh McKenna
3.8.2 Investigating the work pattern of Australian nurse practitioners using work sampling methodology
Glenn Gardner, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Co-authors: Anne Gardner; Sandy Middleton; Phillip Della
4.1 Pressure ulcers (Chair: Colin Torrance)
4.1.1 The effect of washing and drying practices on skin barrier function
David Voegeli, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
4.1.2 An evaluation of albumin and the waterlow score in pressure ulcer risk assessment
Denis Anthony, Nursing, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Co-authors: Linda Rafter; Tim Reynolds
4.1.3 Pressure Ulcers Risk Evaluation (PURE) Project
Jane Nixon, Clinical Trials Research Unit, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. Co-authors: Jane Nixon; Claudia Gorecki; Lisette Schoonhoven; Andrea Nelson; Jose Closs; Tom Defloor; Ruud Halfens; Julia Brown
4.2 Research with children (Chair: Ros Carnwell)
4.2.1 The elephant and the bad baby: Visual methodologies and researching with children
Duncan Randall, School of Health Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
4.2.2 Interviews with children: Notes from the field
Helen Gardner, Nursing and Physiotherapy, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Co-author: Duncan Randall
4.2.3 Measuring the unmeasureable? Issues in paediatric quality of life assessment
Rachel Taylor, Patient Care Research and Innovation Centre, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK. Co-author: Faith Gibson
4.3 Residential care (Chair: Christine Smith)
4.3.1 Decommissioning a care home with nursing
Laura Serrant-Green, School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK. Co-authors: Angela Knight-
Jackson; Kate Deacon; Lisa O’Leary
4.3.2 Meaning and purpose in the lives of nursing home residents
Natalie Yates-Bolton, School of Nursing, University of Salford, Salford, UK
4.3.3 The importance of continuity for older people living in residential care settings
Adeline Cooney, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
4.4 Instruments and psychometrics (Chair: Marlene Sinclair)
4.4.1 Usefulness and practicability of the Care Dependency Scale (CDS) from nurses’ perspective
Juliane Eichhorn-Kissel, Department of Nursing Science, Medical University Graz, Austria. Co-author: Christa Lohrmann
4.4.2 Development of a modified instrument to measure anticipatory grieving in Jordanian parents of children diagnosed with cancer: The MM-CGI childhood cancer
Ekhlas Al Gamal, Salford Centre for Nursing Midwifery and Collaborative Health Care, IHSCR Salford University, Salford, UK. Co-authors: Tony Long, Joan Livesley
4.4.3 Reliability and validity of the Adult Alpha Functional Independence Measure®
Janice Hinkle, School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Co-authors: Jacqueline McClaran;
Janette Davies; Derek Ng
4.5 Education and development (Chair: Joy Merrell)
4.5.1 A scoping study of bilingual provision in nurse education
Gwerfyl Roberts, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Studies, University of Wales, Bangor, UK. Co-authors: Fiona Irvine; Siobhan Tranter; Llinos Spencer
4.5.2 Simulated patients from black and ethnic minority communities – their role in health care education
Karen Ousey, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK. Co-author: Lauren Holland
4.5.3 Nursing work in Saudi Arabia
Ameera Aldossary, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College London, London, UK. Co-authors: Louise Barriball; Alison While
4.6 Palliative care (Chair: Martin Johnson)
4.6.1 Developing a regional model of palliative care provision for Northern Ireland
Donna Fitzsimons, Central Nursing Team, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster and Belfast, UK. Co-author: Sonja McIlfatrick
4.6.2 How does the Gold Standards Framework (GSF), Advanced Care Planning (ACP) and Preferred Place Of Care (PPC) models improve the quality of palliative care for older people with dementia at the end of their lives?
Deborah M Mazhindu, Senior Research Fellow in Advanced Practice, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University,
Liverpool, Merseyside, UK. Co-authors: R McClelland; B Roe; S Ashton; R Gandy; C Mullen; K Wrigley; S McAinish, E Horgan, S Goom; P Stopfoth; J Hughes
4.6.3 Increasing access to palliative care: an evaluation of a community volunteer programme in Sub-Saharan Africa
Barbara Jack, Faculty of Health, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK. Co-authors: Anne Merriman; Jerif Birakurataki
4.7 Professional roles (Chair: Leslie Gelling)
4.7.1 An innovative approach to work sampling: Investigating nurse practitioner work activities in Australia
Michelle Gibb, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Co-authors: Glenn Gardner; Anne Gardner; Victoria Kain; Sandy Middleton; Christine Duffield; Phillip Della
4.7.2 Ward managers: Their perceived role in influencing patient care
Janet Scott, Health Development, School of Health University of Greenwich, London, UK
4.7.3 Using action research for clinical role development to enhance the quality of patient care
Loretta Bellman, Nursing Department, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Co-authors: Philomena Corrigan; Eleanor Higgins; Dorcas Mcasey; Simone Browning; Theresa Rommaney
4.8 Long term conditions/Neurosciences (Chair: Carol Haigh)
4.8.1 Pelvic floor muscle training in people with Multiple Sclerosis
Doreen McClurg, Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, Glasgow, UK. Co-authors: Andrea Lowe-Strong; Robin Ashe
4.8.2 Nursing leaflets and brochures. Are they the most appropriate source of information for chronic neurological patients and carers?
Maria Carmen Portillo Vega, School of Nursing, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Co-author: Sarah Cowley
4.8.3 The first 40 years of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses—It took nerve!
Janice Hinkle, School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Co-authors: Virginia Prendergast;
Elizabeth Reedy
V4 Expert reviewer: Angela Grainger
Data saturation in qualitative interviews - when do we stop?
Naomi Reay, School of Healthcare Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
V5 Expert reviewer: Carol Haigh
Computerised multimedia guided on line self help programme
Steve Cottrell, Consultant Nurse, Clinical Governance Department, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Rhyl, Wales, UK. Co-author: Gary Slegg
5.1 Children and parents (Chair: Julie Taylor)
5.1.1 Researching experience, experiencing research: Living with autism spectrum disorder
Sarah Mackay, School of Health, Social Care and Exercise Sciences, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, UK
5.1.2 Parents of children with ambiguous genitalia: Stories of experiences of reconstructive genital surgeries and finding
harmony
Caroline Sanders, Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK. Co authors: Bernie Carter; Lynne Goodacre; Alan Armstrong
5.2 Fasting and operations (Chair: Sharon Hamilton)
5.2.1 The patients’ priorities for care when fasting for elective surgery
Jacqueline Chandler-Oatts, Research Fellow, Warwick Univeristy, Warwick, UK. Co-authors: Claire Hawkes; Jo Rycroft Malone; Claire Allen; Kate Seers; Ian Bullock; Nicola Crichton; Leo Strunin
5.2.2 Implementing perioperative fasting recommendations: A process and outcome evaluation
Jo Rycroft-Malone, Centre for Health-Related Research, University of Wales, Bangor, Bangor, UK. Co-authors: Claire Hawkes; Jackie Chandler; Kate Seers; Ian Bullock; Nicola Crichton; Leo Strunin; Claire Allen
5.3 Prevention and screening (Chair: Carol Haigh)
5.3.1 Factors related to the prevention behaviors of osteoporosis in urban Chinese
Xiulin Yang, School of Nursing, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. Co-author: Chunmei Wang
5.3.2 An investigation of the factors that influence participation in mammography screening in Greece
Aikaterina Kaltsa, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Co-author: Karen Cox
5.4 Nurse prescribing (Chair: Annie Topping)
5.4.1 Nurse prescriberpatient consultations: A case study in dermatology
Molly Courtenay, School of Health and Social Care, University of Reading, Reading, UK. Co-authors: Nicola Carey; Karen
Stenner
5.4.2 Stakeholder views on the impact of nurse prescribing on dermatology services
Nicola Carey, School of Health and Social Care, University of Reading, Reading, UK. Co-authors: M Courtenay; K Stenner
5.5 Informal care (Chair: Christine Smith)
5.5.1 A structural equation model of informal caregiving
Zoe Stamataki, School of Nursing, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Co-authors: Davina Porock; Alison Edgley
5.5.2 Evaluation of a Crossroads Young Carers Initiative
Annette Jinks, Evidence-based Practice Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, UK. Co-authors: Kathleen Richardson; Brenda Roberts
5.6 Communication (Chair: Angela Grainger)
5.6.1 An ethnographic study of communication between nurse specialists and doctors in the UK
Mark Radford, Anaesthetics Department, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton Coldfield, UK. Co-authors: Elaine Denny; Mike Filby; Caroline Williams
5.6.2 The role of the nurse in breaking bad news in the inpatient care setting
Clare Warnock, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK. Co-authors: Angela Tod; Julie
Foster; Catherine Soreny; Janet Turner; Janet Wood; Judith Palfreyman
5.7 Workforce (Chair: Val Woodward)
5.7.1 Bridging the knowledge gap: An innovative surveillance system to monitor the health of British Columbia’s healthcare workforce
Tony Gilligan, IT, OHSAH, Vancouver, Canada. Co-author: Alamgir Hasanat
5.7.2 The influence of organizational commitment on Italian nurses’ turnover intentions – from 5 Italian hospitals
Luisa Saiani, Nursing Faculty, University Verona, Verona, Italy. Co-authors: Elisa Ambrosi; Adalgisa Battistelli
5.8 Interventions (Chair: Andrea Nelson)
5.8.1 Moving and handling rehabilitation patients: Exploring nurses’ perspectives
Rosie Kneafsey, School of Health Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
5.8.2 Effect on ambulatory blood pressure of a continued nursing intervention using chronotheraputics for adult chinese hyperpietics
Yue Zhao, School of Nursing, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. Co-author: Jean Glover
V7 Expert reviewer: Debbie Carrick-Sen
Invisible birth technology: Post doctoral research reflections 1999- 2009
Marlene Sinclair, School of Nursing. Faculty of Life and Health Science, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK