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H Chadderton

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PubMed2000

Perceptions of registered nurses working with assistive personnel in the United Kingdom and the United States.

This study examines registered nurse perceptions of their role in acute care hospitals that use nursing care assistants (NCA) and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). Also studied was registered nurse (RN) satisfaction with nursing care assistants and unlicensed assistive personnel in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA). The purpose of this study is to assist RNs and managers in the re-design of health-care delivery systems by investigating: 1. The differences and similarities of registered nurses in the UK and the USA in the perceptions of changes in the RN role when working with nursing care assistants or unlicensed assistive personnel. 2. The differences between and similarities of registered nurses in the UK and the USA in perceptions of NCA and UAP abilities to perform delegated duties, to communicate pertinent clinical information and to provide more time for professional nursing activities. Registered nurse perceptions in the UK were compared with the findings of a previous study of RN role changes and satisfaction in the USA. Registered nurses in the UK did not perceive a profound change in their role when working with UAP and were more satisfied with their use than were RNs in the USA.

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PubMed1995

An analysis of the concept of participation within the context of health care planning.

This paper analyses the concept of participation using the model of concept analysis developed by Walker and Avant (1988). The concept was chosen for analysis because of its extensive but often unqualified use in literature associated with the reform of the British National Health Service. The Walker and Avant model was chosen because of its capacity to identify the empirical referents of the concept. The analysis considers the use of the concept in the health and social policy literature from the 1960s to date, identifies the defining attributes prior to creating a model, a borderline and a contrary case, summarizes the antecedents and consequences of participation and offers three empirical referents which could be used in the construction of instruments for nursing research. The paper concludes with an assessment of the limitations of the analysis, an example of the use of the empirical referents in a research review and the identification of issues for those who manage or develop nursing services.

Health Care Reform↗
PubMed1991

Verbal short-term memory span in speech-disordered children: implications for articulatory coding in short-term memory.

One influential explanation of the development of verbal short-term memory in children argues that short-term memory capacity is a direct function of speech rate. This theory predicts that children with pathologically slow speech will show reduced verbal short-term memory capacity and will show less evidence of speech-base coding on verbal memory tasks. To test this prediction, verbal short-term memory span was assessed using a task that did not require a verbal response in 37 speech-disordered children and 37 age- and sex-matched controls (age range 4-15 years). The speech-disordered group had a significantly lower short-term memory capacity, a smaller word length effect, and reduced speech-motor activity during rehearsal periods. Covariance analyses revealed that these differences were not a function of general intellectual or motor speed differences between the groups, and that speech rate as a covariate abolished group differences in short-term memory. These results suggest that speech rate may be a causal determinant of verbal short-term memory capacity.

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The role of nurses in health purchasing.

This paper considers nurses' responsibilities on giving advice about the purchasing of health care. By outlining the steps in the purchasing cycle, a coherent framework is presented for identifying the specific issues associated with the purchasing of health services by district health authorities (DHAs), and family health service authorities (FHSAs) in England and Wales, and health boards (HBs) in Scotland. Purchasing health is every nurse's business. All registered nurses in the UK have a contribution that they can and should make to ensure that their DHA, HB or FHSA makes the best possible provision for their resident population.

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