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Item A qualitative exploration of living with dementia in supported living environments using a peer researcher approach(Elsevier, 2022-02-02) Daly-Lynn, Jean; Ryan, Assumpta; McCormack, Brendan; Martin, SuzanneBackground The aim of the paper is to examine the experiences and perspectives of people living with dementia who live in supported living environments. Methods Peer researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with twenty-two people living with dementia in nine different supported living environments. Results Three themes developed from the thematic analysis: “You can come and go when you like” (Independence and Autonomy); “Everybody the staff and all, all works together” (Collaborative Relationships); and “When I came first, I saw this –I said is this all mine?” (Correct Fit of the Environment). Participants reported living environments that fostered their independence, choice, and control. Collaborative relationships with staff members and family caregivers were important to live the life of their choice. Finally, the correct environment created a sense of ownership and belonging within this space. Conclusions These findings illustrate that supported living can be an environment that empowers individuals on their dementia journey.Item Improving person-centred leadership: A qualitative study of ward managers' experiences during the COVID-19 crisis(Dove Press, 2021-04-07) Hølge-Hazelton, Bibi; Kjerholt, Mette; Rosted, Elizabeth; Thestrup Hansen, Stine; Zacho Borre, Line; McCormack, BrendanIn order to provide guidance and prepare ward managers for future crisis situations similar to the COVID-19 pandemic, the aim of this study was to reflect and learn how person-centred nursing leadership may be strengthened in such situations. The pandemic has forced nurse leaders to face new challenges. Knowledge about their experiences may contribute to advancing leadership practices in times of future crises. A qualitative directed content analysis was chosen. The theoretical perspective was person-centred leadership. Thirteen ward managers from a Danish university hospital were included and interviewed using telephone interviews three months after the first national COVID-19 case was confirmed. The main findings of the study revealed that the ward managers often experienced a lack of timely, relevant information, involvement in decision-making and acknowledgement from the head nurse of department and the executive management. This was caused by the existing organizational cultures and the traditional hierarchy of communication. This meant that the ward managers' sense of own competences and leadership values and beliefs came under high pressure when they had to balance different stakeholders' needs. When the experience of ward managers results in them being unable to lead authentically and competently in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of engagement can occur, with serious consequences for patients, staff and the ward managers themselves. Traditional organizational cultures that are hierarchical and controlling needs to be challenged and reoriented towards collaborative, inclusive and participative practices of engagement and involvement. Leadership development must be an established and integrated component of organizations, so that ward managers are able to sustain person-centred ways of being and doing in times of crisis.Item Balancing life and death during the golden minute – midwives’ experiences of performing newborn resuscitation(Dove Press, 2020-09-17) Ljungblad, Linda Wike; Skovdahl, Kirsti; McCormack, Brendan; Dahl, BentePurpose: To explore midwives’ experiences in performing newborn resuscitation on maternity wards.Item Stories from people living with frailty(Cambridge University Press, 2019-08-09) Lloyd, Anna; Haraldsdottir, Erna; Kendall, Marilyn; Murray, Scott A.; McCormack, BrendanWe describe the findings of a qualitative longitudinal interview study of a group of initially community dwelling frail older people, their informal and formal carers. We used a narrative approach to explore the role that narrative may have for people living with frailty. This has been less explored comparative to the experiences of those living with chronic illness. The frail older people told stories of their experiences that revealed three distinct shapes or typologies. These were either stable, unbalancing or overwhelmed and related to how the person managed to adapt to increasing challenges and losses and to reintegrate their sense of self into a cohesive narrative. Each is illustrated by an individual case story. Frailty is described as both biographically anticipated yet potentially biographically disruptive as older people may struggle to make sense of their circumstances without a clear single causative factor. Findings are discussed in relation to biographical disruption and reconstruction in chronic illness and the rhetoric around ‘successful ageing’. We conclude by drawing attention to the complex individual and social factors that contribute to the experience of living with frailty in later life.Item Apophenia, unconscious bias and reflexivity in nursing qualitative research(Elsevier, 2018-09-26) Buetow, StephenNurses routinely engage in pattern recognition and interpretation in qualitative research and clinical practice. However, they risk spontaneously perceiving patterns among things that are not meaningfully related. Although all people are prone to this cognitive bias of "apophenia", nurses may be at increased risk because they commonly produce or at least use qualitative research that can be highly interpretive. Qualitative researchers have been silent on the risk of apophenia and hence on exploring how attention to apophenia could help to indicate and manage such unconscious biases. Therefore this conceptual paper suggests how, in disciplines like nursing, researchers could attend to and use reflexivity on signs of possible apophenia to help bring unconscious biases to awareness. Within safe communities of professional practice, the researchers could cooperate with trusted peers to reflect on how and why they may each perceive patterned phenomena from different perspectives. If one reason is that the researchers, for example, appear to exhibit particular unconscious biases, then dialogue could help them to become aware of, and reflect on the biases. This expansion of researchers' consciousness of bias could inform the management of apophenia and enhance the quality of qualitative research and modern nursing practice.Item Framing moving and handling as a complex healthcare intervention within the acute care of older people with osteoporosis: a qualitative study(Wiley, 2016-08-22) Smith, Margaret Coulter; O'May, Fiona; Tropea, Savina; Berg, Jackie; AnonymousAims and objectives. To investigate healthcare staff's views and experiences of caring for older hospitalized adults [aged 60+] with osteoporosis focusing on moving and handling. Specific objectives were to explore the composition of manual handling risk assessments and interventions in osteoporosis. Background. Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease that reduces bone density and causes increased fracture risk. Incidence rises with age and osteoporotic fractures cause increased morbidity and mortality. It is major global health problem. In the UK older hospitalized adults are normally screened for falls risk but not necessarily for osteoporosis. As presentation of osteoporosis is normally silent until fractures are evident it is frequently undiagnosed. Healthcare staff's knowledge of osteoporosis is often sub optimal and specific manual handing implications under-researched.