Publications by authors named "Barbara Brady-Fryer"
Background: In 2009, Alberta Health Services (AHS) became Canada's first and largest fully integrated healthcare system, involving the amalgamation of nine regional health authorities and three provincial services. Within AHS, communities of practice (CoPs) meet regularly to learn from one another and to find ways to improve service quality. This qualitative study examined CoPs as an applied practice of a learning organisation along with their potential influence in a healthcare system by exploring the perspectives of CoP participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe the process of developing and validating the Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres Trigger Tool (CPTT).
Methods: Five existing trigger tools were consolidated with duplicate triggers eliminated. After a risk analysis and modified Delphi process, the tool was reduced from 94 to 47 triggers.
Developing nurse/parent relationships in the NICU through negotiated partnership.
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
March 2011
Article Synopsis
- The study wanted to find out how parents felt about the care their babies got in the NICU (a special hospital area for very sick newborns).
- They talked to ten parents to learn about their experiences, focusing on how important the nurses were in helping them feel satisfied.
- The parents said that having a good relationship with the nurses made a big difference, and they saw the nurses as teachers and caregivers who helped them through a tough time.
Nonintentional strangulation in children is a widely recognized risk as a result of the vulnerability of their airway to occlusion by relatively low pressures. We describe 2 cases of strangulation by intravenous (IV) tubing in infants, 1 of which was fatal. This is the first documentation in the health science literature of this as a potential adverse consequence of IV therapy in young children.
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