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The influence of environment, predisposing, enabling and need variables on personal health choices of adults with intellectual disability.
(2013)Attention to disease and risk factor management is increasingly a feature of people with intellectual disability (ID) as an augmented life expectancy also exposes a growing number of age-related diseases. An additional ... -
Effectiveness of gerontologically informed nursing assessment and referral interventions for older persons attending the emergency department: systematic review
(2009)AIM: This paper is a report of a literature review conducted to analyse data from published studies reporting nursing interventions targeted at older attendees of emergency departments (EDs), and to provide a critical ... -
'Visible-ness': the nature of communication for children admitted to a specialist children's hospital in the Republic of Ireland.
(2008)This article presents the core concept of 'visible-ness' that emerged from an ethnographic study, which explored the nature of communication, for children (for ease of reading children refers to children and young people), ... -
Sexual health promotion: Participants' perspectives on capacity building
(2014)Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate a Health Service Executive (HSE) Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion (FPSHP) with a specific emphasis on capacity building. Design: A mixed-method design using ... -
Tuberculosis incidence in the Irish Traveller population in Ireland from 2002 to 2013.
(2015)The health status of the Irish Traveller ethnic minority is low compared to the general population in Ireland in terms of infant mortality rates and life expectancies. Respiratory disease is an area of health disparity ... -
Evaluation of the implementation of a PhD capacity-building programme for nurses in South Africa.
(2015)Background: There is a significant deficit in the research capacity of nurses and internationally, in order to meet future healthcare demands, there is a call to double the number of nurses and healthcare professionals ... -
The development of leadership outcome-indicators evaluating the contribution of clinical specialists and advanced practitioners to healthcare: a secondary analysis
(2014)Aims. To report a secondary analysis of data collected from the case study phase of a national study of advanced practitioners and develop leadership outcomes-indicators appropriate for advanced practitioners. Background. ... -
The impact of four family support programmes for people with a disability in Ireland
(2015)Background: This article reports on an evaluation of four family support programmes in Ireland for families of people with a physical or an intellectual disability or autism. The focus of the evaluation, which took place ... -
Scaling up nurse education: An evaluation of a national PhD capacity development programme in South Africa, in the context of the global shortage of nursing graduates
(2015)Summary Background The global shortage of nursing professionals educated at baccalaureate level and beyond has been highlighted. Within America, services are preparing to treat an additional 32 million individuals under ... -
Clinician-centred interventions to increase vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC): a systematic review.
(2015)Background: The number of caesarean sections (CS) is increasing globally, and repeat CS after a previous CS is a significant contributor to the overall CS rate. Vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) can be seen as a real ...