A Workshop and Toolkit to Support Late-Career Transitions for Faculty.

Introduction: Twenty percent of medical school faculty are 60 years or older. These senior-career academic faculty often find a paucity of support for decision-making about late-career transitions.

Methods: To help fill this professional development gap, we developed and tested an interactive workshop to facilitate deliberation and discussion among mid- and late-career faculty in various stages of career transition planning.

My experiences with kidney care: A qualitative study of adults in the Northern Territory of Australia living with chronic kidney disease, dialysis and transplantation.

Background: Australian healthcare quality and safety accreditation standards recommend health services partner with health care users, to ensure the highest quality of care. Aboriginal Australians with chronic and end stage kidney disease have high health care access needs.

Aim: To describe the experiences of health care users of a large government kidney healthcare service provider.

Roles and functions of enrolled nurses in Australia: Perspectives of enrolled nurses and registered nurses.

Aims And Objectives: To determine, from the perspectives of enrolled nurses and registered nurses, the current scope of enrolled nurse practice and to identify the activities that most enrolled nurses frequently performed in their workplace.

Background: Enrolled nurse scope of practice in Australia has evolved and expanded over the past decade. However, the unclear role, function and competency differentiation between enrolled nurse and registered nurse leads to role confusion and ongoing professional debate.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae and health outcomes in children with asthma.

Background: Acute infections with Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) have been associated with worsening asthma in children. Mp can be present in the respiratory tract for extended periods; it is unknown whether the long-term persistence of Mp in the respiratory tract affects long-term asthma control.

Objective: To determine the effect of Mp on asthma control.

Managing boundaries between professional and lay nursing following the influenza pandemic, 1918-1919: insights for professional resilience today?

Aims And Objectives: To examine lay-professional nursing boundaries, using challenges to the New Zealand nursing profession following the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic as the example.

Background: The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 had an overwhelming international impact on communities and the nursing profession. After the pandemic, the expectation for communities to be able to nurse the sick reflects today's increasing reliance on families to care for people at home.

Learning from clinical placement experience: Analysing nursing students' final reflections in a digital storytelling activity.

This paper reports on the learning potential of a reflective activity undertaken by final year nursing students, in which they were asked to recount two meaningful events that occurred during their clinical placements over the duration of their 3-year nursing degree program and reflect on how these events contributed to their learning to become beginning level Registered Nurses (RNs). This descriptive qualitative study gathered narratives from 92 students as individual postings in an online forum created within the University's learning management system. An analysis of the students' reflections are the focus of this paper particularly in relation to the value of reflecting on the identified events.

Developing and Implementing a Citywide Asthma Action Plan: A Community Collaborative Partnership.

Objectives: Asthma affects 1 in 10 children in the United States, with higher prevalence among children living in poverty. Organizations in San Antonio, Texas, partnered to design and implement a uniform, citywide asthma action plan to improve asthma management capacity in schools.

Methods: The asthma action plan template was modified from that of the Global Initiative for Asthma.

Issues post-stroke for Muslim people in maintaining the practice of salat (prayer): A qualitative study.

Background: Muslims throughout the world perform salat (prayer) five times a day; salat involves a person reciting the Holy Qur'an while being in several positions. There are several steps that should be carried out before prayer, including wudhu (ablution) and covering one's awrah (body).

Objectives: To identify educational needs for stroke patients and their caregivers in Malaysia.

Feasibility of spirometry testing in preschool children.

Rationale: The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of obtaining acceptable and reproducible spirometry data in preschool aged children (3-5 years) by technicians without prior experience with spirometry.

Methods: Two technicians were trained to perform spirometry testing (ndd Easy on-PC) and to administer standardized questionnaires. Preschool aged children were enrolled from two Head Start centers and a local primary care clinic.

Historical imagination, narrative learning and nursing practice: graduate nursing students' reader-responses to a nurse's storytelling from the past.

Storytelling and narrative are widely used in nurse education and the value of narrative-based curricula, such as those governed by narrative pedagogy, is well recognised. Storytelling stimulates students' imagination, a central feature of narrative learning. One form of story and imagination yet to be fully considered by educators is the historical story and historical imagination.

Birth weight and adult health in historical perspective: evidence from a New Zealand cohort, 1907-1922.

We provide new historical evidence on the developmental origins of health and disease in a cohort of boys born between 1907 and 1922 in Wellington, New Zealand. Using a dataset of 1523 birth records that include birth weight and length we find 852 (58%) of the adult cohort in World War II records measuring stature, body mass and blood pressure. On average, the boys weighed 3.

Striving for best practice: standardising New Zealand nursing procedures, 1930-1960.

Aims And Objectives: To identify how nurses in the past determined best practice, using the context of New Zealand, 1930-1960.

Background: In the current context of evidence-based practice, nurses strive to provide the best care, based on clinical research. We cannot assume that nurses in the past, prior to the evidence-based practice movement, did not also have a deliberate process for pursuing best practice.

Nurses' occupational health as a driver for curriculum change emphasising health promotion: an historical research study.

Background: Reasons stated for curriculum change in nursing education are usually shifts in knowledge, care delivery, roles, regulatory standards and population health needs. In New Zealand in the 1930s, a curriculum change was driven instead by the need to protect and promote nurses' health. Tuberculosis was an international occupational health risk among nurses.

Cultural relevance of the quality-of-life tools for people with kidney failure.

Background: Many tools are used to examine the Quality of Life (QOL) of patients with kidney disease, but little is known about how culturally relevant they are and why one should utilise one tool over another. As part of a larger study on the QOL of dialysis patients in United Arab Emirates, the cultural relevance of two tools (SF-36 and the QOL Index) was examined. This paper suggests a model to establish cultural relevance of QOL tools.

Assessing proxy reports: agreement between children with asthma and their caregivers on quality of life.

Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires are important tools to evaluate health status in children with asthma; however, children with asthma and their caregivers have shown only low to moderate agreement in their responses.

Objective: To analyze the agreement between children with asthma and their caregivers on HRQOL, specifically in the domains of activity limitation, emotional function, and overall quality of life (QOL).

Methods: We enrolled 79 pediatric patients (ages 5-17 years) with asthma (53 with acute asthma and 26 with refractory asthma) and their caregivers.

The journal Kai Tiaki's role in developing research capability in New Zealand nursing, 1908-1959.

The development of research capability in New Zealand nursing can be seen particularly from the 1970s onwards. However, by analysing past issues of Kai Tiaki - the country's longstanding nursing journal - over the five decades following its establishment in 1908, the present authors identified two precursors to this later stage. The journal fostered nurses' awareness of research and consistently promoted nursing scholarship.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children with acute and refractory asthma.

Background: The presence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae has been associated with worsening asthma in children. Sensitive assays have been developed to detect M pneumoniae-derived community-acquired respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS) toxin.

Objectives: To identify the frequency and persistence of M pneumoniae detection in respiratory secretions of children with and without asthma and to evaluate antibody responses to M pneumoniae and the impact of M pneumoniae on biological markers, asthma control, and quality of life.

The blurred boundary between professional and lay home nursing knowledge and practice in New Zealand, 1900-1935.

In New Zealand, the state registration of nurses was instituted in 1901. This was a marker that nursing had achieved professional status. Although many registered nurses (RNs) worked in private practice or as district nurses in people's homes, lay home nurses had an essential role in caring for the sick.

'Sunless lives': district nurses' and journalists' co-construction of the 'sick poor' as a vulnerable population in early twentieth-century New Zealand.

Portrayals of vulnerable groups in public media, government reports and professional accounts tend, by definition, to focus on their deficits in order to identify need and shape appropriate health care responses. This article within the cultural history of nursing considers a different construction of one vulnerable group in the past, the 'sick poor' in early 20th-century New Zealand. The research analysed primary historical sources that offered rich descriptions of the sick poor, drawn from one major daily newspaper and the country's professional nursing journal, 1900-1920.

Poverty, philanthropy, and professionalism. The establishment of a district nursing service in Wellington, New Zealand, 1903.

The establishment in 1903 of a professional district nursing service in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, was a philanthropic response to the need for skilled care for the sickpoor in their own homes, as hospital and charitable aid boards believed chronic patients drained their resources. This paper argues that it was the timely combination of the individual philanthropy of Sarah Ann Rhodes, the organisational philanthropy of the St John Ambulance Association and the new professional standing and availability of registered nurses such as Annie Holgate that ensured its successful foundation. It also argues that district nursing services blurred spatial, social, and public-private boundaries in new ways.

Understanding and evaluating historical sources in nursing history research.

All nurse researchers need to address, in the manner most appropriate to their research methodology, issues of quality related to their research material. This concern is not about the care needed in generating data, rather it relates to understanding and evaluating material that already exists. This article describes four historical sources relevant to the history of nursing in New Zealand and uses them to explain how nurse researchers can evaluate their research material.

Sickening nurses: fever nursing, nurses' illness, and the anatomy of blame, New Zealand 1903-1923.

In the early twentieth century, patients with infectious fevers represented a danger to the health of others including their nurses. This research describes the training New Zealand nurses received in fever nursing during the period 1903-1923, and considers how they applied hospital cross-infection principles in emergency tent fever camps in remote rural areas. It examines the reaction of nurses, hospital boards, and physicians to nurses who succumbed with their patients' fevers.

Impact of obesity in asthma: evidence from a large prospective disease management study.

Background: asthma and obesity continue to have a significant effect on public health. It is widely accepted that obesity may be an independent risk factor for asthma and affect asthma severity and quality of life (QOL).

Objective: to examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and asthma severity, spirometry findings, health care utilization (HCU), and QOL.