Publications by authors named "Carolyn Shepherd"
Building Team-based Primary Care: Lessons From an Academic-Community Network Partnership.
Prog Community Health Partnersh
January 2024
Article Synopsis
- Team-based care is essential for high-quality health care, but transitioning from traditional methods to team-based approaches is difficult and requires systematic changes.* -
- The study focused on a partnership between academics, clinics, and communities to enhance team-based care in primary care for vulnerable populations, using a structured change package and implementation support.* -
- Evaluation showed significant improvements in care-team functions over three years, especially in population management, indicating that academic-community collaborations can effectively enhance team-based care.*
Thank you for the excellent article on end of life care for patients with heart failure (Art & Science August 20). Many patients have implanted devices, including re-synchronisation pacemakers and defibrillators.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn these cash-starved times, we nurses, particularly those like myself in specialist practice, should be able to demonstrate our worth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReflection on a patient's airway management during a ward-based resuscitation.
Nurs Crit Care
October 2006
Background: The bag-valve-mask (BVM) system is a common adjunct used during adult resuscitation to ventilate the lungs and deliver oxygen to patients in cardiopulmonary arrest. Gastric inflation, regurgitation and aspiration are well-documented complications of BVM ventilation, which can have serious consequences for patients.
Aim: The aim of this paper is to review the cause of gastric inflation, regurgitation and aspiration during BVM ventilation and to consider techniques that have been suggested to reduce these problems.