Publications by authors named "Rosemary B Field"

Pre-licensure ethics nursing education does not adequately prepare and instill confidence in nurses to address ethical issues, and yet ethics education provides nurses with greater confidence to take moral action, which can mitigate the negative effects of moral distress. To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a nursing ethics education program that included simulated case-based ethics competencies as a form of evaluation. The program aimed at building nurses' ethical knowledge and confidence to respond to ethical challenges in practice.

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Aims: To identify the personal and professional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical nurses with regard to personal and workplace safety, personal and professional relationships and perceptions of their team, organization and community, and to understand lessons learned to inform future responses to pandemics or global emergencies.

Design: Qualitative, descriptive free-text surveys, informed by appreciative inquiry.

Methods: Nurses working in adult COVID- and non-COVID cohort medical-surgical and intensive care units, outpatient cancer and general surgery centres were invited to participate.

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Context: The coexistence of high levels of satisfaction and high levels of pain has been perplexing.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to 1) describe patient expectations related to the experience of cancer-related pain, 2) explore the cognitive processes and meaning that underlie patient judgments about satisfaction and dissatisfaction with pain management, and 3) explore the discrepancies between ratings of high satisfaction with pain management with high pain intensity.

Methods: The sample included 33 patients: 18 with advanced cancer and 15 experiencing pain after a surgery for a cancer diagnosis.

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