An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography
Journal Article
Reid, L., Kydd, A., & Slater, B. (2018)
An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987118756477
This paper provides an institutional ethnographic analysis of how discussions and advance decisions about serious illness, hospital admission and Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmona...
Post traumatic stress disorder post childbirth versus postnatal depression: a guide for midwives
Journal Article
Bromley, P., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Patterson, J. (2017)
Post traumatic stress disorder post childbirth versus postnatal depression: a guide for midwives. British Journal of Midwifery, 25(8), 484-490. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2017.25.8.484
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-Post Childbirth (PTSD-PC) is a powerful pathophysiological reaction that occurs in response to experiencing a traumatic birth and affects betwee...
Heightening levels of compassion towards self and others through use of compassionate mind training
Journal Article
Beaumont, E., & Martin, C. J. H. (2016)
Heightening levels of compassion towards self and others through use of compassionate mind training. British Journal of Midwifery, 24(11), 777-786. doi:10.12968/bjom.2016.24.11.777
Background: Continued absence of strategies that promote self-care puts midwives at risk of experiencing symptoms of stress, empathic distress fatigue, burnout, and compassion...
Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings
Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A., MacKay, W., MacIntosh, T., McIver, V. & O'Kane, C. (2016, October)
Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings. Paper presented at 5th European Nursing Congress, Rotterdam
Introduction: This paper presents part of a larger study which examined callout patterns of people with catheters in the community, explored stakeholder experiences and develo...
Defining the oldest old
Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A., Fleming, A., Paoletti, I. & Hvalic Touzery, S. (2016, October)
Defining the oldest old. Paper presented at 5th European Nursing Congress, Rotterdam
Background: It is an incontrovertible fact that the world has an increasing number of people who are classed as the ‘oldest old’ and sometimes referred to as the ‘fourth age’....
Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016)
Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation. Nursing Older People, 28(8), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e790
This article is the second of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. In this article, the authors describe their independent development ...
Culture change in care homes: a literature review.
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016)
Culture change in care homes: a literature review. Nursing Older People, 28(7), 35-39. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e789
This article is the first of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. A UK care home company sought the authors’ expertise to design and fa...
Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016)
Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’. Nursing Older People, 28(5), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.28.5.31.s26
This article describes digital skills training (DST) for staff and later, residents, as part of a programme of culture change in a large care home with nursing in Glasgow. It ...
What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Fleming, A. (2016)
What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old. Maturitas, 90, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.05.003
Given the global increase in the number of people over the age of 85, there is a growing body of work concerning this group, termed the oldest old. Much of this work is confin...
Construct and content validity of the Greek version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale (G-BSS)
Journal Article
Vardavaki, Z., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Martin, C. R. (2015)
Construct and content validity of the Greek version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale (G-BSS). Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 33(5), 488-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2015.1035235
Background: ‘Birth Satisfaction’ is a term that encompasses a woman’s evaluation of her birth experience. The term includes factors such as her appraisal of the quality of car...