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    • Visibility of nursing in policy documents related to health care priorities 

      Tønnessen, Siri; Christiansen, Karin; Hjaltadóttir, Ingibjörg; Leino‐Kilpi, Helena; Scott, Philomena Anne; Suhonen, Riitta; Öhlén, Joakim; Halvorsen, Kristin (Wiley, 2020-02-09)
      Aim To explore the visibility of nursing in policy documents concerning health care priorities in the Nordic countries.Background Nurses at all levels in health care organisations set priorities on a daily basis. Such ...

    • Vitamin D supplementation and clinical outcomes in cancer survivorship 

      Griffin, Niamh; Dowling, Maura (Mark Allen Healthcare, 2018-10-22)
      Increasing evidence points to the role of vitamin D supplementation in cancer management. A comprehensive search of online databases was undertaken for all research studies relating to vitamin D supplementation in cancer ...

    • Weight Care Project: Health professionals' attitudes and ability to assess body weight status - Study protocol 

      Murphy, Kathy (BioMed Central, 2011-03)
      Background Health professionals working in primary care and public health have opportunities to address body weight status issues with their patients through face-to-face contact. The objectives of this all-Ireland project ...

    • What people with dementia want: designing MARIO an acceptable robot companion 

      Casey, Dympna; Felzmann, Heike; Pegman, Geoff; Kouroupetroglou, Christos; Murphy, Kathy; Koumpis, Adamantios; Whelan, Sally (NUI Galway, 2016)
      The number of people with dementia is expected to double every 20 years to 66 million by 2030 and 115 million by 2050 [1]. More than a third of people with dementia have reported loneliness [2]. Robots have the potential ...

    • Working in an overcrowded accident and emergency department: nurses' narratives 

      Kilcoyne, Mary; Dowling, Maura (Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation, 2007-12)
      Aim The aim of this study was to highlight nursing issues associated with overcrowding ( or access block) in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) department.Design An interpretive phenomenological approach was adopted, with ...