The effect of nurse-to-patient ratios on nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in acute specialist units : a systematic review and meta-analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Driscoll, A., Grant, M., Carroll, D., Dalton, S., Deaton, C., Jones, I., …Astin, F. (2017). The effect of nurse-to-patient ratios on nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in acute specialist units : a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 17(1), 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515117721561

Background: Nurses are pivotal in the provision of high quality care in acute hospitals. The impact that nursing shortages have on the quality of care provided to patients in hospital can have disastrous consequences. In light of this, a review of th... Read More about The effect of nurse-to-patient ratios on nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in acute specialist units : a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Does intentional rounding practice improve patient safety and experience? (2017)
Journal Article
Langley, S., Ormandy, P., & Wray, J. (2017). Does intentional rounding practice improve patient safety and experience?. Nursing Times, 113(8), 36-40

Although widely used in UK hospitals, rounding is still a relatively new concept and the available literature fails to capture what it means from the perspective of patients and nurses. This article describes a study conducted to increase understandi... Read More about Does intentional rounding practice improve patient safety and experience?.

Service user involvement in the co-production of a mental health nursing metric : the therapeutic engagement questionnaire (2017)
Journal Article
Chambers, M., McAndrew, S., Nolan, F., Thomas, B., & Kantaris, X. (2017). Service user involvement in the co-production of a mental health nursing metric : the therapeutic engagement questionnaire. Health Expectations, 20(5), 871-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/HEX12526

Service users’ involvement in mental health service research is increasingly acknowledged as important, yet, whilst involving users of mental health services as research participants is commonplace, seeking out their experience and indeed their “exp... Read More about Service user involvement in the co-production of a mental health nursing metric : the therapeutic engagement questionnaire.

Exploring approaches to child welfare in contexts of domestic violence and abuse : family group conferences (2017)
Journal Article
Rogers, M., & Parkinson, K. (2018). Exploring approaches to child welfare in contexts of domestic violence and abuse : family group conferences. Child and Family Social Work, 23(1), 105-112. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12389

This article sets out to explore service provision for families affected by domestic violence and abuse (DVA). For most families where there are child protection concerns, there are possibilities for intervention from child welfare agencies and domes... Read More about Exploring approaches to child welfare in contexts of domestic violence and abuse : family group conferences.

The Iris Project, Manchester Women’s Aid : an independent consultation with older clients (2017)
Report
Rogers, M. (2017). The Iris Project, Manchester Women’s Aid : an independent consultation with older clients

The University of Salford worked in partnership with Manchester Women’s Aid to conduct a consultation of older service users who access DVA intervention via IRIS. This included service users, both female and male, who are over 50 years of age. This p... Read More about The Iris Project, Manchester Women’s Aid : an independent consultation with older clients.

Testing the Not Just a Thought model with young people and professionals (2017)
Report
Long, T. (2017). Testing the Not Just a Thought model with young people and professionals

Percutaneous coronary intervention patients' and cardiologists' experiences of the informed consent process in Northern England : a qualitative study (2017)
Journal Article
Probyn, J., Greenhalgh, J., Holt, J., Conway, D., & Astin, F. (2017). Percutaneous coronary intervention patients' and cardiologists' experiences of the informed consent process in Northern England : a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 7(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015127

Objective Informed consent is central to ethical medical practice, but little is known about how the process takes place in clinical practice. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a common revascularisation procedure. Studies report that... Read More about Percutaneous coronary intervention patients' and cardiologists' experiences of the informed consent process in Northern England : a qualitative study.

Final assessment of nursing students in clinical practice : perspectives of nursing teachers, students and mentors (2017)
Journal Article
Helminen, K., Johnson, M., Isoaho, H., Turunen, H., & Tossavainen, K. (2017). Final assessment of nursing students in clinical practice : perspectives of nursing teachers, students and mentors. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 4795-4803. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13835

Aims and objectives: To describe the phenomenon of final assessment of the clinical practice of nursing students and to examine whether there were differences in assessments by the students and their teachers and mentors. Background: Final assessmen... Read More about Final assessment of nursing students in clinical practice : perspectives of nursing teachers, students and mentors.

Paediatric intensive care nurses’ decision-making around gastric residual volume measurement (2017)
Journal Article
volume measurement. Nursing in Critical Care, 22(5), 293-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.12304

Background: Measuring gastric residual volume (GRV) to guide enteral feeding is a common nursing practice in intensive care units, yet little evidence supports this practice. In addition, this practice has been shown to potentially contribute to ina... Read More about Paediatric intensive care nurses’ decision-making around gastric residual volume measurement.

A study to investigate whether speed and road conditions have an effect on the physiological stability of sick and preterm babies undergoing inter-hospital transfer by ambulance (2017)
Thesis
have an effect on the physiological stability of sick and preterm babies undergoing inter-hospital transfer by ambulance. (Thesis). University of Salford

Aim The aim of this study was to investigate whether speed and road conditions have an effect on the physiological stability of sick and preterm babies undergoing inter-hospital transfer by ambulance. Study Design This was a quantitative... Read More about A study to investigate whether speed and road conditions have an effect on the physiological stability of sick and preterm babies undergoing inter-hospital transfer by ambulance.

Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism? (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2017). Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism?. In M. Jacobsen (Ed.), The Interactionist Imagination: Studying Meaning, Situation and Micro-Social Order (41-70). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58184-6_2

Georg Simmel was the first great figure in sociology’s classical tradition to set out a distinctive conception of society not as a supra-individual structure but as a series of enabling and constraining interactions and associations among human being... Read More about Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism?.

Meeting the housing needs of the armed forces community in Tameside (2017)
Report
Wilding, M. (2017). Meeting the housing needs of the armed forces community in Tameside

The project aimed to review the extent to which the housing needs of the armed forces community in Tameside are being met and to make recommendations for potential improvements. This required collating information about the ways in which organisation... Read More about Meeting the housing needs of the armed forces community in Tameside.

A systematic review of the impact of educational programs on factors that affect nurses’ post-operative pain management for children (2017)
Journal Article
AlReshidi, N., Long, A., & Darvill, A. (2018). A systematic review of the impact of educational programs on factors that affect nurses’ post-operative pain management for children. Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 41(1), 9-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2017.1319432

Despite extensive research in the international arena into pain and its management, there is, as yet, little research on the topic of pain in children in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf countries generally. A systematic review was conducted to explore t... Read More about A systematic review of the impact of educational programs on factors that affect nurses’ post-operative pain management for children.

The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale tested for children with cancer (2017)
Journal Article
Al-Gamal, E., & Long, A. (2017). The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale tested for children with cancer. Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 40(3), 188-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2017.1316791

Fatigue is considered to be one of the most reported symptoms experienced by children with cancer. A major aim of this study was to develop an Arabic version of the Pediatric Quality of Life (PedsQL) Multidimensional Fatigue Scale (child report) and... Read More about The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale tested for children with cancer.

Using simulation as a learning experience in clinical teams to learn about palliative and end of life care : a literature review (2017)
Journal Article
life care : a literature review. Death Studies, 42(3), 172-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2017.1334006

Simulation has been shown to improve the preparedness of practitioners in acute care. In this review we evaluate using simulation to prepare practitioners to deliver palliative care in multidisciplinary teams. The Joanna Briggs Institute approach was... Read More about Using simulation as a learning experience in clinical teams to learn about palliative and end of life care : a literature review.

Hearing the voice of looked after children : challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending (2017)
Journal Article
Day, A. (2017). Hearing the voice of looked after children : challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending. Safer Communities, 16(3), 122-133. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-01-2017-0003

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to assess the early findings of research which aims to hear the voice of looked after children about their pathways into offending and subsequent entry into the youth justice system, and the implications that... Read More about Hearing the voice of looked after children : challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending.

Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Harris, N., Ryffe, D., Scullion, L., & Stendahl, S. (2017). Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 31(2), 230-267. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebx001

Access to public education systems has tended to be below normative levels where Roma children are concerned. Various long-standing social, cultural, and institutional factors lie behind the lower levels of engagement and achievement of Roma children... Read More about Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective.

Determinants of whistleblowing intention : evidence from the South Korean government (2017)
Journal Article
Chang, Y., Wilding, M., & Shin, M. (2017). Determinants of whistleblowing intention : evidence from the South Korean government. Public Performance and Management Review, 40(4), 676-700. https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2017.1318761

In 2001, the South Korean government passed the Anti-Corruption Act, which provides whistleblower protection in the public sector. The system of protections and rewards was strengthened in 2011 by the Act on the Protection of Public Interest Whistleb... Read More about Determinants of whistleblowing intention : evidence from the South Korean government.

Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
McNeill, J., Scullion, L., Jones, K., & Stewart, A. (2017). Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 25(2), 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982717X14943392083755

In order to fully understand the impact of the extension of conditionality in the UK to include people with impairments, it is vital to give voice to those with direct experience of the welfare system. The case studies that follow are taken from inte... Read More about Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives.

It’s not about security, it’s about racism : counter-terror strategies, civilizing processes and the post-race fiction (2017)
Journal Article
Patel, T. (2017). It’s not about security, it’s about racism : counter-terror strategies, civilizing processes and the post-race fiction. Palgrave Communications, 3, https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2017.31

Using a range of international examples, this article examines the ways in which members of the black and minority ethnic population continue to be viewed as problematic and deviant, challenging the claim that we are now living in a post-race state.... Read More about It’s not about security, it’s about racism : counter-terror strategies, civilizing processes and the post-race fiction.