Publications by authors named "Peter Thursby"
Aims: To discuss the experience in using a visual arts-based method of draw and talk with hospitalized children, lessons learnt and strategies for practice.
Design: Discussion paper.
Data Sources: Data were drawn from two sources: first, the databases Ovid MEDLINE, CINAHL, and SCOPUS were searched for approaches to visual arts- based data collection with children.
Aim: To explore through draw, observation and talk hospitalized children's experience of a Fairy Garden in Northern Thailand.
Design: A participatory visual arts method of draw, observations and talk along with Clandinin's narrative inquiry framework of three-dimensional space (sociality, temporality and place).
Methods: This study was conducted in a paediatric ward in a large tertiary hospital in Northern Thailand over 12 months (July 2017-2018).
Background: The concept and philosophy of healing environments in health care is not new and there has been recent research into the experience of nurses and families experience of healing environments producing positive outcomes in relieving stress and improving quality of life. However, there is little in-depth information about student nurse's experience of healing environments in support of patients.
Aim: To report on the stories of student nurses who participated in formal and informal activities in a healing haven environment called a Fairy Garden (FG) within a hospital in northern Thailand.
Aims And Objectives: To report on the stories of registered nurses and nurse administrators in a Thai hospital that recently constructed a healing haven environment called a 'Fairy Garden' to support the formal and informal activities of sick children.
Background: While there has been some research into healing environments in health for adults, there has been no qualitative research into healing environments such as natural gardens for children.
Design: Narrative inquiry was selected to capture the holistic notion of the participant's experience.
Background: Patients who are dependant on a percutaneous central venous catheter for dialysis have an excess morbidity and mortality compared with patients with an autologous arteriovenous fistula.
Methods: In an effort to improve outcomes related to episodes of permanent access insufficiency, defined as a patient requiring a venous catheter for haemodialysis, a 12-month prospective audit of surgery carried out to establish and maintain dialysis access was carried out at our institution.
Results: Effective measures that reduced the period of time that patients required a venous catheter for dialysis included regular communication between dialysis staff, the surgical service and patients attending for treatment in the dialysis unit, liberal use of duplex ultrasound imaging, pursuing autologous access in the majority of patients, early intervention to correct failing vascular access before conduit thrombosis, using both traditional open surgical and endovascular solutions in establishing and maintaining vascular access, using peritoneal dialysis as a long-term or temporary alternative to haemodialysis and, in cases of arteriovenous polytetrafluoroethylene graft occlusion, early thrombectomy and mandatory revision to provide a conduit immediately available for effective dialysis.
The purpose of this study was to compare the rate of proximal type I endoleaks in patients undergoing endoluminal repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms with endografts having either transrenal or infrarenal fixation. From September 1998 to May 2000, 42 patients received endoluminal aortic grafts for the treatment of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms. Patients received either transrenal or infrarenal devices, based on the surgeon's preference.
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