Publications by authors named "Melissa E Hay"

Background: Nurses in long-term care (LTC) and home and community care (HCC) are well acquainted with the high workloads and manifold job stressors that pervade these sectors, making it increasingly difficult to employ and retain a strong workforce. In response, nursing bridging education programs have been proposed to enhance recruitment and retention. While the efficacy of such programs is supported, the transition to practice experience of new nurse graduates is often associated with feelings of under-preparedness.

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Background: The context of practice is often not explicit in the discourse around the personal and professional resilience of nurses. The unique factors related to providing nursing care in home and community care may provide novel insight into the resilience of this health workforce. Therefore, this research addressed how nurses build and maintain resilience working in the home and community care sector.

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Introduction: Retention of nurses in long-term care (LTC) and home and community care (HCC) settings is a growing concern. Previous evidence underscores factors which contribute to nurses' intentions for retention in these sectors. However, perspectives of nursing students preparing to enter the workforce, and their intentions for short-term and long-term retention, remain unknown.

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Introduction: COVID-19 has necessitated greater adoption of virtual care (eg, telephone (audio), videoconference) delivery models. Virtual care provides opportunities for innovative practice in care planning with older persons and meaningful family engagement by synchronously involving multiple care providers. Nevertheless, there remains a paucity of summarising evidence regarding virtual team-based care planning for older persons.

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This research examined the lived experience of older adult Alpine skiers in their continued participation in competitive ski racing. The aim was to gain an understanding of the meaning of the experiences for older adults as they continued to compete in Alpine ski racing. Masters skiers between the ages of 69 and 82 years participated in individual interviews.

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The objective of this research was to understand the process of commitment to exercise participation for functional recovery among community-living survivors of stroke following discharge from formal rehabilitation. Participants were recruited from a mid-sized city in south-western Ontario, Canada. Between September 2017 and March 2018, 10 individuals living in the community with the effects of stroke, who continued to engage in regular exercise post-stroke, were recruited for participation.

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to enhance the understanding of the process that physical therapists undertake when creating and disseminating exercise programs for older adults with chronic backpain.

Methods: Constructivist grounded theory methodology was used as an accessible mode of researching pragmatic clinical practices. Physical therapists from outpatient, ambulatory care clinic settings participated in in-depth, individual interviews (n = 9) and in-clinic observations (n = 5).

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Physical inactivity and chronic back pain are prevalent among older adults; however, there are individuals who persist in exercising despite daily pain. This research explored the meaning of exercise in the lives of older adults with chronic back pain. Hermeneutic phenomenology, valuing everyday experiences and highlighting meaning, was employed.

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Contemporary discourses in the health sciences vary in their treatment of aging bodies and the mind-body relationship, yet our understanding of aging experiences and health care practices can be limited by an overreliance on biomedical or social constructionist approaches alone. This paper offers a conceptual exploration of embodiment as an innovative approach to enhance our understandings of aging bodies and health in physiotherapy practice. Embodiment attends to body and mind, nature and culture, structure and agency, while appreciating differences in aging bodies and health in aging.

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