The thesis explores the application of Continuing Professional Education learning in the work place, and evaluates the factors contributing to its application to clinical practice. The research specifically reviews and assesses relevant literature and theories of adult learning …
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This thesis presents work conducted for a structured doctorate consisting of four main components. The first element is a case study investigating the current practice of mentorship in a clinical setting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The qualitative case study was conducted in a gove…
This thesis is a comparative and historical study of nursing in Britain and the USA from 1860 to 1970. The framework for the enquiry is drawn from the sociology of occupations and professions and the material is oriented specifically to the suggestion that occupational groups 'p…
The primary focus for this Thesis is an account of the degree to which nurses and other stakeholders in one National Health Service hospital Trust have responded to the ‘clinical governance’ initiative, the effects on quality improvement and professional regulation and the pract…
In this study, the professionalisation of nursing in Switzerland is being investigated with the help of the theoretical approaches of the sociology of professions. These approaches - demand approach and supply approach - represent two opposing lines of argumentation. In the dema…
A major challenge of the 21st century for the health-care professionals is to provide care for the ever-expanding population of people with renal-failure. Patient numbers are rising and specialist nurses, who are the pivotal factor in haemodialysis units, are becoming increasing…
Background: Peritoneal dialysis is a daily, life-saving treatment for end-stage renal disease, performed at home by patients and their relatives. Increasing numbers of patients are requiring treatment for this disease and therefore clinicians are calling for more patients to use…
This study involves a unique cohort of training and qualified nurse hysteroscopists educated with the same provider. The aim of the research study was to explore the experiences of nurse hysteroscopists undertaking 'see and treat' outpatient hysteroscopy services. There is plent…
This thesis is the first research of its kind to examine the career journeys of leading African, African-Caribbean and Asian, male and female, nurses' careers in England, and adds substantially to our extremely limited knowledge concerning the black professional class in Britain…
A hypothetical journey from the moment a soldier was wounded to his discharge from the field hospital was detailed in order to provide an idea of the organisation of military health services, evacuation strategy and roles of health care personnel during the Spanish Civil War. It…
This thesis is about nursing work and the ways in which nurses in a general hospital accomplished occupational jurisdiction. It is based on ethnographic data generated on a surgical ward and a medical ward in a single NHS trust hospital. The study is set in the context of recent…
The increase in the number of children living with complex, long term nursing needs has led to an expansion of services. The growth in community children’s nursing has been influenced by local politics and the needs of individual children, rather than by research investigating c…
Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of migrant Pakistani nurses working in the United Kingdom. Background: Pakistani educated nurses have a history of migration to Middle Eastern and developed countries, and despite severe nurse shortages the Pakis…
Background: New nursing roles and advances in care and treatments have resulted in nurses facing increasingly complex ethical dilemmas in practice; nurses are therefore required to engage effectively in ethical decision-making. Prior to commencing this empirical study a literatu…
This thesis offers an original contribution to knowledge through providing a rigorous longitudinal examination of a complex intervention known as the ‘Leadership in Compassionate Care Programme' (LCC) which was designed to embed compassionate care within local NHS practice in a …
Waterbirths have been available in the United Kingdom as a method of pain relief for childbirth for over two decades but the neonatal safety of birth in water remains unevaluated. Opponents of a waterbirth randomised controlled trial state randomisation would undermine women’s c…
The desire for, and provision of, cross border reproductive services (CBRS) (i.e. gamete donation and surrogacy) is a growing international phenomenon. CBRS describes the travel by infertile patients from one country or jurisdiction where access to treatment is limited or unavai…
This study critically explores how Bourdieu’s (1985; 1989) concept of social space impacts on the experiences of medical and nursing students in the primary care setting when non-formal work based learning (WBL) is used as a model for interprofessional education (IPE) (Moore, 20…
The aims of this study were to explore the preconceptions of pre-registration undergraduate and Diploma of Higher Education in Nursing (Dip.H.E.) (Adult) students have in relation to their programme and the nursing profession, and students' perceptions as their programmes progre…