Patient involvement in the implementation of infection prevention and control guidelines and associated interventions: a scoping review.

Objective: To explore patient involvement in the implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines and associated interventions.

Design: Scoping review.

Methods: A methodological framework was followed to identify recent publications on patient involvement in the implementation of IPC guidelines and interventions.

The Irish National Adverse Events Study (INAES): the frequency and nature of adverse events in Irish hospitals-a retrospective record review study.

Introduction: Irish healthcare has undergone extensive change recently with spending cuts and a focus on quality initiatives; however, little is known about adverse event occurrence.

Objective: To assess the frequency and nature of adverse events in Irish hospitals.

Methods: 1574 (53% women, mean age 54 years) randomly selected adult inpatient admissions from a sample of eight hospitals, stratified by region and size, across the Republic of Ireland in 2009 were reviewed using two-stage (nurse review of patient charts, followed by physician review of triggered charts) retrospective chart review with electronic data capture.

Planning and Selecting Evaluation Designs for Leadership Training: A Toolkit for Nurse Managers and Educators.

Leadership development training and education for nurses is a priority in modern health care systems. Consequently, effective evaluation of nurse leadership development programs is essential for managers and educators in health care organizations to determine the impact of such programs on staff behaviors and patient outcomes. Our team has identified a framework for the evaluation of the design and implementation of such programs.

Successful research capacity building in academic nursing and midwifery in Ireland: an exemplar.

Background: Nursing and midwifery education have comparatively recently moved into academia in Ireland. In 2002, nurse tutors who were qualified to Master's degree level assimilated into the third-level sector. Only 11 of the 35 staff (31%) in one university School held, or were undertaking, a PhD.

Clinical research ethics in Irish healthcare: diversity, dynamism and medicalization.

Gaining ethical clearance to conduct a study is an important aspect of all research involving humans but can be time-consuming and daunting for novice researchers. This article stems from a larger ethnographic study that examined research capacity building in Irish nursing and midwifery. Data were collected over a 28-month time frame from a purposive sample of 16 nurse or midwife research fellows who were funded to undertake full-time PhDs.

Capacity building: a concept analysis of the term applied to research.

Recent policy developments in Ireland have led to a focus on research capacity building as a means of consolidating nurse and midwifery education in the Irish academic setting. This follows similar initiatives in the United Kingdom and Australia. However, sparse literature and a lack of clarity of the term 'research capacity building' leads to some confusion.

Prehospital care pathway delays: gender and myocardial infarction.

Aim: This paper reports the findings of a study that identified gender specific prehospital care pathway delays amongst Irish women and men with myocardial infarction.

Background: Women are more likely to experience a poorer prognosis than their male counterparts following hospitalization for myocardial infarction, yet research shows that women continue to experience prehospital care pathway delays.

Methods: A 1-year prospective census was carried in six major academic teaching hospitals in Dublin, Ireland in 2001-2002.

In-hospital care pathway delays: gender and myocardial infarction.

Aim: This paper reports the in-hospital findings of a study identifying gender specific care pathway delays or treatment opportunities amongst Irish women and men hospitalized with myocardial infarction.

Background: Reperfusion therapy is of optimum benefit when administered early, yet research shows that women continue to experience greater in-hospital delays to treatment than men.

Method: A 1-year prospective census was carried out from December 2001 to November 2002 with 277 (31%) female and 613 (69%) male patients with myocardial infarction who were consecutively admitted to the six major teaching hospitals in Dublin, Ireland.

Journeying to professionalism: the case of Irish nursing and midwifery research.

This paper gives a 'discursive' account of the contemporary development of nursing and midwifery research in the Republic of Ireland in the context of advancing professionalism. Initially, the paper views the landscape by placing research in the current framework of Irish nursing and midwifery. It then examines the map of our present location by documenting a baseline.

'Add women & stir'--the biomedical approach to cardiac research!

In conditions shared by women and men, the biomedical model of disease assumes that illness-symptoms and outcomes are biologically and socially 'neutral'. Consequently, up until a decade ago, white middle-aged men were the model subjects in most funded cardiac trials, with the assumption that whatever the findings, the results would also hold true for women. This 'add women and stir' approach has resulted in imbalances in cardiac care and an image of coronary artery disease, which portrays a middle-aged male as its victim.