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Widening participation in nurse education: an integrative literature review (2017)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Board, M., Duckworth, V., & Thomas, L. (2017). Widening participation in nurse education: an integrative literature review. Nurse Education Today, 59, 66-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2017.08.016

Background Widening participation into higher education is espoused within educational policy in the UK, and internationally, as a mechanism to promote equality and social mobility. As nurse education is located within higher education it has a resp... Read More about Widening participation in nurse education: an integrative literature review.

Real world challenges in delivering person-centred care: a community-based case study (2017)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Riding, S., & Glendening, N. (2017). Real world challenges in delivering person-centred care: a community-based case study. British Journal of Community Nursing, 22(8), 391-396. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2017.22.8.391

Community nurses face many challenges when trying to practice evidence-based, person-centred care. Ongoing concerns regarding the impact of the 2013 Francis Report ( Ford and Lintern, 2017 ) suggest that individualised and holistic care is an impossi... Read More about Real world challenges in delivering person-centred care: a community-based case study.

Interpretative phenomenological analysis: a means of exploring aspiration and resilience amongst widening participation students (2017)
Journal Article
Gauntlett, L., Bickle, E., Thomas, G., Collins, B., Heaslip, V., & Eccles, S. (2017). Interpretative phenomenological analysis: a means of exploring aspiration and resilience amongst widening participation students. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 19(2), 63-86. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.19.2.63

As the Office for Fair Access and the Higher Education Funding Council for England priorities now extend across widened access to success, both the aspirations of young people from widening participation (WP) backgrounds and their existing or develop... Read More about Interpretative phenomenological analysis: a means of exploring aspiration and resilience amongst widening participation students.

The etemic model of Gypsy Roma Traveller community vulnerability: is it time to rethink our understanding of vulnerability? (2016)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Hean, S., & Parker, J. (2016). The etemic model of Gypsy Roma Traveller community vulnerability: is it time to rethink our understanding of vulnerability?. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(17-18), 3426-3435. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13499

Aims and objectives To present a new etemic model of vulnerability. Background Despite vulnerability being identified as a core consequence of health and health experiences, there has been little research exploring the meaning of vulnerability a... Read More about The etemic model of Gypsy Roma Traveller community vulnerability: is it time to rethink our understanding of vulnerability?.

Troubling ideas for widening participation: how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements (2016)
Journal Article
Wardrop, A., Hutchings, M., Collins, B., Eccles, S., Heaslip, V., Hunt, C., & Pritchard, C. (2016). Troubling ideas for widening participation: how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 18(2), 84-110. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.18.2.84

This article explores how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements. Through an analysis of access agreements from 2014-15 to 2016-17, a picture of how research is understood, undertaken and documented e... Read More about Troubling ideas for widening participation: how higher education institutions in England engage with research in their access agreements.

Lived experience of vulnerability from a Gypsy Roma Traveller perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Hean, S., & Parker, J. (2016). Lived experience of vulnerability from a Gypsy Roma Traveller perspective. Molecular Ecology, 25(13-14), 1987-1998. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13223

Aims and objectives To describe the lived experience of vulnerability of individuals within a Gypsy Roma Travelling community. Background People experience vulnerability whenever their health or usual functioning is compromised. This may increas... Read More about Lived experience of vulnerability from a Gypsy Roma Traveller perspective.

An exploration of the perceptions of caring held by students entering nursing programmes in the United Kingdom: a longitudinal qualitative study phase 1 (2015)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., Cooper, K., Rosser, E., Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., …Harding, A. (2015). An exploration of the perceptions of caring held by students entering nursing programmes in the United Kingdom: a longitudinal qualitative study phase 1. Nurse Education in Practice, 15(6), 403-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2015.05.004

In a climate of intense international scrutiny of healthcare and nursing in particular, there is an urgent need to identify, foster and support a caring disposition in student nurses worldwide. Yet relatively little is known about how core nursing va... Read More about An exploration of the perceptions of caring held by students entering nursing programmes in the United Kingdom: a longitudinal qualitative study phase 1.

What factors influence Fair Access students to consider university and what do they look for (2015)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Hewitt-Taylor, J., Alexander, P., Ellis-Hill, C., & Seibert-Santos, C. (2015). What factors influence Fair Access students to consider university and what do they look for. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 17(4), 67-88. https://doi.org/10.5456/WPLL.17.4.67

This paper reports the findings of a participatory mixed methods study into the perceptions of Fair Access students on the factors which led them to consider accessing Higher Education. The study consisted of focus groups with thirteen first year Fai... Read More about What factors influence Fair Access students to consider university and what do they look for.

Service user involvement in preregistration general nurse education: a systematic review (2015)
Journal Article
Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., & Crowley, E. (2015). Service user involvement in preregistration general nurse education: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25(1-2), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13068

Aims and objectives A systematic review of published studies on service user involvement in undergraduate, preregistration general nursing education (excluding mental health-specific programmes). The objective is to examine how students are exposed... Read More about Service user involvement in preregistration general nurse education: a systematic review.

Improving collaborative practice to address offender mental health: criminal justice and mental health service professionals’ attitudes towards interagency training, current training needs and constraints (2015)
Journal Article
Hean, S., Staddon, S., Fenge, L., Clapper, A., Heaslip, V., & Jack, E. (2015). Improving collaborative practice to address offender mental health: criminal justice and mental health service professionals’ attitudes towards interagency training, current training needs and constraints. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.22230/jripe.2015v5n1a182

Professionals from the mental health and criminal justice systems must collaborate effectively to address offender mental health, but interprofessional training is lacking. Pedagogical frameworks are required to support the development of training in... Read More about Improving collaborative practice to address offender mental health: criminal justice and mental health service professionals’ attitudes towards interagency training, current training needs and constraints.

Vulnerability and risk in children living with a physical disability (2014)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., & Hewitt-Taylor, J. (2014). Vulnerability and risk in children living with a physical disability. Nursing Children and Young People, 26(10), 24-29. https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.26.10.24.e528

Children are identified as a vulnerable group in need of a degree of safeguarding. About 6% of children in the UK have a disability, which can increase their level of vulnerability. How disability is perceived by others may affect the way they work w... Read More about Vulnerability and risk in children living with a physical disability.

Addressing older people's mental health needs in the community setting (2014)
Journal Article
Barker, S., Heaslip, V., & Chelvanayagam, S. (2014). Addressing older people's mental health needs in the community setting. British Journal of Community Nursing, 19(5), 234-238. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2014.19.5.234

It is estimated that more than one third of older people may experience problems with their mental health. While, in some of these cases, people will be able to self-manage with little or no support, individuals who are socially isolated or physicall... Read More about Addressing older people's mental health needs in the community setting.

Mental health and the criminal justice system: the role of interagency training to promote practitioner understanding of the diversion agenda (2014)
Journal Article
Fenge, L., Hean, S., Staddon, S., Clapper, A., Heaslip, V., & Jack, E. (2014). Mental health and the criminal justice system: the role of interagency training to promote practitioner understanding of the diversion agenda. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 36(1), 36-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2014.891338

Historically there has been a significant under-recognition of mental health problems among people in the criminal justice system, and little research exploring the issues encountered by those with mental health problems who come into contact with th... Read More about Mental health and the criminal justice system: the role of interagency training to promote practitioner understanding of the diversion agenda.

District nursing: the hidden giant of the NHS? (2013)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V. (2013). District nursing: the hidden giant of the NHS?. British Journal of Community Nursing, 18(8), 404-406

The recent 65th birthday of the NHS is a reminder of the purpose of the NHS: to provide a service that puts people that need it at the heart of care. However, recent negative reports have questioned nurses’ ability to provide this care, which led to... Read More about District nursing: the hidden giant of the NHS?.

Reflecting on nurses' views on using research in practice (2013)
Journal Article
Heaslip, V., Hewitt-Taylor, J., & Rowe, N. (2013). Reflecting on nurses' views on using research in practice. British Journal of Nursing, 21(22), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.22.1341

This paper follows a previous paper (Hewitt-Taylor et al, 2012) in which the authors summarised their reflections on the literature relating to the application of research in practice. This paper builds on these reflections and reports on the finding... Read More about Reflecting on nurses' views on using research in practice.

Applying research to practice: exploring the barriers (2013)
Journal Article
Hewitt-Taylor, J., Heaslip, V., & Rowe, N. (2013). Applying research to practice: exploring the barriers. British Journal of Nursing, 21(6), 356-359. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2012.21.6.356

Nurses are not averse to applying research findings to their clinical practice; however, there appears to be a number of barriers to achieving this. Generally, barriers include lack of time and the need to provide more education surrounding the use o... Read More about Applying research to practice: exploring the barriers.

Protecting children or creating vulnerability? (2012)
Journal Article
Hewitt-Taylor, J., & Heaslip, V. (2012). Protecting children or creating vulnerability?. Community practitioner, 85(12), 31-33

Children are, rightly, viewed as vulnerable and in need of safeguarding. However, protecting children from harm should not eclipse their need to learn about managing risky situations and those in which they are vulnerable. How adults view risk and vu... Read More about Protecting children or creating vulnerability?.

Humanising values at the heart of nurse education (2012)
Journal Article
Hemingway, A., Scammell, J., & Heaslip, V. (2012). Humanising values at the heart of nurse education. Nursing Times, 108(41), 26-28

This is the second article in a two-part series exploring how nurses can humanise the care patients receive. The first article presented a theoretical framework based on eight dimensions of what it means to be human (Hemingway et al, 2012). This seco... Read More about Humanising values at the heart of nurse education.