Tuesday 11 May 2010

Concurrent session presentations (where agreed to publish)

1.1 Maternity (Chair: Dr Debbie Carrick-Sen)

1.1.1 How can maternity services be developed to effectively address maternal obesity? A qualitative study
Nicola Heslehurst, Health and Social Care Institute, Teesside University, UK. Co-authors: H Moore; J Rankin; L J Ellis; J R Wilkinson; C D Summerbell.

1.1.2 A descriptive qualitative study exploring midwives' attitudes, knowledge and understanding whilst caring for obese pregnant women
Gillian Sedgewick, Women and Children, South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. Co-author: Susan Cleary.

1.1.3 Satisfaction and experiences of pregnant hypertensive women participating in a feasibility study of guided imagery effects on blood pressure
Fiath Wight Moffatt, School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, Canada.

1.1.4 Evaluating pathways of maternal care in NHS Scotland
Helen Cheyne, Reader, NMAHP Research Unit, University of Stirling, UK

1.2 Quality of Life (Chair: Vita FitzSimons)

1.2.1 Quality of life in long-term conditions (ViPER)
Monique Lhussier, Community Health and Education Research Centre, Northumbria University, UK. Co-authors: S M Carr; C L Clarke.

1.2.3 Exploring predictors of quality of life and patient self-management in peripheral arterial disease
Martyn Jones, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Dundee, UK. Co-authors: S Joice; C Johnstone; W Lauder; P Stonebridge.

1.2.4 Service quality in intensive care assessed by patients using the SERVQUAL scale
Maria Angeles Margall, University of Navarra, Spain. Co-authors: Rosana Goñi; M C Asain; E Regaira; M Sola; M Del Barrio.

1.3 Efficiency (Chair: Alison Tierney)

1.3.1 Learning and impact from 'the productive ward' programme in England
Jill Maben, National Nursing Research Unit, King's College London, UK. Co-authors: E Morrow; P Griffiths; G Roberts; S Jones.

1.3.2 Delivering person-centred care through 'the productive ward'?
Christine Boomer, Research Fellow, School of Nursing / Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, UK. Co-author: Rambod Maasoumeh.

1.3.3 An evaluation of releasing time to care in trusts within one strategic health authority
Sarah Starr, Programme Lead 'Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care', Nursing Directorate, NHS East of England, UK. Co-authors: D Kelly; M Spencer.

1.3.4 Nurse staffing and quality of care in UK general practice: Cross sectional study using routinely collected data
Peter Griffiths, Director, Nursing Research Unit, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, UK. Co-authors: Mark Ashworth; Simon Jones; Jill Maben; Trevor Murrells; Dalia Dawoud.

1.4 Critical Care (Chair: Leslie Gelling)

1.4.1 Family presence during resuscitation and / or invasive procedures in a hospital setting: the lived experience of patients, family members and health care practitioners
Susan Hulme, Staff Nurse, Haematology Unit, North Tees Hospital, UK. Co-author: J Bettany-Saltikov.

1.4.2 User experiences of critical care discharge: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research
Suzanne Bench, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, UK.

1.4.3 Family-centred care: a way to connect patients, families and nurses in critical care - a qualitative study using telephone interviews
Marion Mitchell, Griffith University, Australia. Co-author: Wendy Chaboyer.

1.4.4 Critical care discharge information strategies: a focus group study involving patients, relatives and healthcare professionals
Suzanne Bench, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, UK.

1.5 Research Methods (Chair: Kate Seers)

1.5.1 Research in a virtual world: how technology can assist research activity
Carol Haigh, Professor in Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Co-author: Mike Wakeman.

1.5.2 A matrix approach to managing your data
Camille Cronin, Lecturer, School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, UK.

1.5.3 Challenges of using participant observation
Liz Tutton, Senior Research Fellow, RCN Research Institute, School of Health and Social Sciences, Warwick University, UK.

1.5.4 Methodological reflections: the challenges of maintaining an inductive approach and managing bias in a longitudinal interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) study
Sherrill Snelgrove, Lecturer, School of Health Science, Swansea University, UK.

1.6 Sexual Health (Chair: Andrea Nelson)

1.6.1 Decision-making in men who seek help in relation to a sexually transmitted infection (STI)
Paula Walls, School of Nursing, University of Ulster, UK.

1.6.2 Factors that limit women's ability to practice safer sex: a feminist perspective
Leah East, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Co-authors: D Jackson; L O'Brien; K Peters.

1.6.3 Discussing sexual and relationship health issues with young people within an acute paediatric setting
Erica Pritichard, Sister / Research Nurse, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Co-authors: L Bray; C Sanders; J McKenna.

1.6.4 Nurses as 'street level bureaucrats': an exploration of provider-initiated routine HIV testing in Nairobi, India
Catrin Evans, Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham, UK. Co-authors: E Ndirangu.

1.7 Violence (Chair: Caroline Bradbury-Jones)

1.7.1 Factors affecting Israeli nurses' reports of violence perpetrated against them
Merav Ben Natan, Lecturer, Nurse Practitioner Programme, Health and Social Care, University of Cubria, UK.

1.7.2 Emergency nurses fostering resilience: resisting the negative sequelae of violence
Lauretta Luck, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Co-author: D Jackson.

1.7.3 Psycho-social factors affecting elders' maltreatment in long-term care facilities 
Merav Ben Natan, Lecturer, Pat Matthews Academic School of Nursing and Nursing Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

1.8 Education (Chair: Sue Jackson)

1.8.1 Learning in nurse practitioners (LiNP): An investigation of workplace learning
Debra Sharu, Senior Lecturer, Nurse Practitioner Programme, Health and Social Care, University of Cumbria, UK.

1.8.2 Peer teaching in practice: Final year students teaching vital signs to novice students
Lisa McKenna, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Australia. Co-author: J French.

1.8.3 Real world or out of this world? An evaluation of the effectiveness of simulation in teaching blood pressure measurement
Karen Ousey, Divisional Head, Acute and Critical Care, Nursing and Health Studies, University of Huddersfield, UK. Co-author: M Bland.

1.8.4 Patient safety in nursing education: results from a multi-site UK study
Alison Steven, School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University, UK. Co-authors: P Smith; C Magnusson; J Lawrence; P Pearson.

1.9 Miscellaneous

1.9.1 Developing nursing capacity through doctoral study in UK universities: an investigation of international students' learning experiences
Catrin Evans, Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham, UK. Co-author: K Stevenson.

1.9.2 Magnetic resonance imaging, knee arthroscopy and clinical decision-making: a descriptive study
Gayle Maffulli, Trials Manager / Research Nurse, Centre for Sports and Excercise Medicine, Queen Mary University, UK. Co-authors: S Derrett; G Walley; S Bridgman; P Richards; N Maffulli.

1.9.3 The merits of interviewing couples separately in a Heideggerian hermeneutic study of sexuality and intimacy
Bridget Taylor, Senior Lecturer & PhD Student, School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, UK.