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Critical Appraisal For Health Care Students : A Practical Guide to Writing Evidence based Practice Assignments (2024)
Book
Henshaw, L., Whiffin, C., & Barnes, D. (2024). Critical Appraisal For Health Care Students : A Practical Guide to Writing Evidence based Practice Assignments. Wiley

Critical Appraisal Skills for Healthcare Students is your indispensable guide to understanding research papers, mastering critical appraisal, and most importantly, succeeding in your summative assignments. While this text is written with Level 5 stud... Read More about Critical Appraisal For Health Care Students : A Practical Guide to Writing Evidence based Practice Assignments.

“Am I a student or a Healthcare Assistant?” A qualitative evaluation of a programme of prenursing care experience (2018)
Journal Article
Whiffin, C. J., Baker, D., Henshaw, L., Nichols, J. J., & Pyer, M. (2018). “Am I a student or a Healthcare Assistant?” A qualitative evaluation of a programme of prenursing care experience. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74(11), 2610-2621. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13788

Aim
To examine the experiences of prenursing healthcare assistants (HCA) during a 6-month programme of prenursing care experience.

Background
Care experience prior to commencing programmes of nurse education is broadly considered to be advantage... Read More about “Am I a student or a Healthcare Assistant?” A qualitative evaluation of a programme of prenursing care experience.

Supporting newly qualified nurse transition: A case study in a UK hospital (2015)
Journal Article
Whitehead, B., Owen, P., Henshaw, L., Beddingham, E., & Simmons, M. (2016). Supporting newly qualified nurse transition: A case study in a UK hospital. Nurse Education Today, 36, 58-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2015.07.008

Background
Nurse education in the United Kingdom (UK) has been university based since the mid-1990s but despite careful preparation and assessment of student nurses it has been considered necessary to provide a period of additional support for newly... Read More about Supporting newly qualified nurse transition: A case study in a UK hospital.

Supporting newly qualified nurses in the UK: A systematic literature review (2013)
Journal Article
Whitehead, B., Owen, P., Holmes, D., Beddingham, E., Simmons, M., Henshaw, L., …Walker, C. (2013). Supporting newly qualified nurses in the UK: A systematic literature review. Nurse Education Today, 33(4), 370-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.01.009

Aim
This is a systematic literature review of the existing published research related to the development of preceptorship to support newly qualified nurses in the United Kingdom (UK).

Background
It has been known for some time that newly qualifi... Read More about Supporting newly qualified nurses in the UK: A systematic literature review.