Reflections about experiences of compassionate care from award winning undergraduate nurses – What, so what … now what?
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Smith, S., James, A., Brogan, A., Adamson, E., & Gentleman, M. (2016)
Reflections about experiences of compassionate care from award winning undergraduate nurses – What, so what … now what?. Journal of Compassionate Health Care, 3(6), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40639-016-0023-x
Background
From 2007 until 2012 Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Care in conjunction with NHS Lothian, collaborated on a programme of actio...
Clarifying misconceptions about compassionate care
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Dewar, B., Adamson, E., Smith, S., Surfleet, J., & King, L. (2013)
Clarifying misconceptions about compassionate care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 70, 1738-1747. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12322
Aim
To discuss the meaning of compassionate care as it applies to staff, patients and families in health and social care settings, its application to practice and how organiza...
Use of emotional touchpoints as a method of tapping into the experience of receiving compassionate care in a hospital setting
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Dewar, B., Mackay, R., Smith, S., Pullin, S., & Tocher, R. (2010)
Use of emotional touchpoints as a method of tapping into the experience of receiving compassionate care in a hospital setting. Journal of Research in Nursing, 15(1), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987109352932
Improving the patient and family experience in hospital and supporting people to deliver compassionate dignified care is a priority on the policy agenda in the UK. The purpose...
Exploring the compassion deficit debate.
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Stenhouse, R., Ion, R., Roxburgh, M., Devitt, P. F., & Smith, S. D. (2016)
Exploring the compassion deficit debate. Nurse Education Today, 39, 12-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2016.01.019
Several recent high profile failures in the UK health care system have promoted strong debate on compassion and care in nursing. A number of papers articulating a range of pos...
Screening for psychiatric illness in the palliative care inpatient setting: a comparison between the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the General Health Questionnaire-12
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Le Fevre, P., Devereux, J., Smith, S., Lawrie, S. M., & Cornbleet, M. (1999)
Screening for psychiatric illness in the palliative care inpatient setting: a comparison between the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the General Health Questionnaire-12. Palliative Medicine, 13(5), 399-407. https://doi.org/10.1191/026921699671260095
The objective of this study was to compare the performance of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) with the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) as a scre...
Perspectives of person-centred care
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Steenbergen, E. E., van der Steen, R., Smith, S., Bright, C., & Kaaijk, M. M. (2013)
Perspectives of person-centred care. Nursing Standard, 27(48), 35-41. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2013.07.27.48.35.e7799
Aim
To ascertain and compare the perspectives of students and lecturers at Edinburgh Napier University and Hanze University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, regarding pe...
Skill mix—HCAs and their role in quality healthcare
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McIntosh, B., & Smith, S. (2012)
Skill mix—HCAs and their role in quality healthcare. British journal of healthcare assistants : for HCAs and assistant practitioners, 6(8), 396-399. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2012.6.8.396
The NHS must increase productivity by 6% every year if it is to make projected efficiency savings of £21 billion by 2014. At the same time, it is expected to maintain or impro...
Encounters with doctors: quantity and quality
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Smith, S. D. M., Nicol, K. M., Devereux, J., & Cornbleet, M. A. (1999)
Encounters with doctors: quantity and quality. Palliative Medicine, 13(3), 217-223. https://doi.org/10.1191/026921699668267830
Continuity of care and the large numbers of health care professionals who deliver that care are issues that frequently concern patients and their families. This study examined...
Relationship centred outcomes focused on compassionate care for older people within in-patient care settings: Relationship centred compassionate care
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Smith, S., Dewar, B., Pullin, S., & Tocher, R. (2010)
Relationship centred outcomes focused on compassionate care for older people within in-patient care settings: Relationship centred compassionate care. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 5(2), 128-136. doi:10.1111/j.1748-3743.2010.00224.x
This paper describes outcomes from research titled Leadership in Compassionate Care. The research adopts a participatory action research approach, utilizing appreciative inqui...