Centre for Nursing and Health Studies: Recent submissions
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Understanding and Supporting Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Strategies for Health Professionals: an Opinion Piece
(Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 2018-07)Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a non-diagnostic umbrella term used to describe the spectrum of lifelong physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities that can result from prenatal exposure to alcohol. FASD ... -
Persistent Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia: An Overview of Assessment and Treatment Approaches
(Open Journal of Depression, 2017-01-23)Persistent depressive disorder or dysthymia is a recurrent depressive disorder with no clearly demarcated episodes. Onset is insidious and can occur in adolescence or adulthood. Dysthymia frequently remains unrecognized ... -
Commentary: Posing questions to support and challenge -- A guide for mentoring staff.
(The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice, 2016)Staff development educators seeking to mentor health care practitioners towards thinking more critically may integrate a questioning approach into their teaching. However, posing questions that both support and challenge ... -
Asynchronous online peer assistance: Telephone messages of encouragement in post licensure nursing programs
(Journal of Peer Learning, 2012)Peer assistance activities can strengthen online learning environments. And yet, like other professional adult learners, working post licensure nurses attending university part time to upgrade their credentials may have ... -
Developmental disabilities co-occurring with Mental illness
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Keeping clients safe on the night shift
(Mental Health Practice, 2013)The night shift admission checklist helps night nurses to maintain a culture of safety when admitting a person to an inpatient mental health unit. Mental health symptoms can be pronounced on admission but, on night shift, ... -
From vocational college to university: How one group of nurses experienced the transition
(Journal for the Advancement of Educational Research, 2010)This qualitative descriptive study explored Post LPN to BN students' perceptions of their studies at a Canadian University. Kelly's (1955/1991) Psychology of Personal Constructs was the theoretical framework for this three ... -
Instructional immediacy online
(Information Science Reference, 2009-01)Educators in both traditional and online learning events have consistently recognized a link between teachers who demonstrate warm, friendly behaviors and the creation of welcoming interactive learning environments. One ... -
Naturalistic generalization
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Nursing Support for Family Members of Critically Ill Adults
(Sage Publications, 2007-11)Researchers have identified the needs of family members of critically ill adults, explored their experiences, and investigated interventions. To address a gap in the theoretical knowledge about how nurses help these ... -
Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery: Information and Resource Guide
(AU Press, 2008-10)Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery is a research-based, comprehensive, and comprehensible resource on prostate surgery in Canada. Aimed at men with concerns about prostate surgery and their partners, this invaluable ... -
Avant et Après La Prostatectomie Radicale: Guide d'information et de Ressources
(AU Press, 2009-04)Avant et Après La Prostatectomie Radicale is a research-based, comprehensive, and comprehensible resource on prostate surgery in Canada. Aimed at men with concerns about prostate surgery and their partners, this invaluable ... -
Lunch with the theorists: A clinical learning activity
(Nurse Educator, 2006) -
What works? A personal account of clinical teaching strategies in nursing
(Education for Health, 2004) -
Practical Teaching Strategies for Diabetes Educators
(Diabetic Quarterly, 2005) -
Practical approaches in treating depression: Alleviating the debilitating symptoms of depression in LTC
(Canadian Nursing Home, 2006) -
Reducing relocation stress syndrome in long term care facilities
(Journal of Practical Nursing, 2004) -
A message from Simone
(The Canadian Nurse, 2000-02)Many health care professionals are concerned that, at a time of increased patient acuity, few registered nurses are opting for mental health nursing as a career choice. Since student nurses' undergraduate experiences ... -
A clinical instructor observation tool
(Nursing Papers, 1982) -
Relationships between exercise regulations and motivational consequences in university students
(Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2004-03)