Sleep quality in patients with chronic illness.

Aims And Objectives: To explore sleep quality in patients with chronic illness in primary care.

Background: Many people suffer from chronic illness with the numbers increasing. One common issue arises from problems that people have with their quality of sleep: a largely under-researched topic.

Has bioscience reconciled mind and body?

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this discursive paper is to explore the question 'has biological science reconciled mind and body?'.

Background: This paper has been inspired by the recognition that bioscience has a historical reputation for privileging the body over the mind. The disregard for the mind (emotions and behaviour) cast bioscience within a 'mind-body problem' paradigm.

Development and implementation of a clinical needs assessment to support nursing and midwifery students with a disability in clinical practice: part 1.

Equality and disability legislation, coupled with increasing numbers of students with a disability, and inadequate supports in clinical practice, acted as catalysts to explore how best to support undergraduate nursing and midwifery students on clinical placements. Historically, higher education institutions provide reasonable accommodations for theoretical rather than clinical modules for practice placements. This paper describes the development and implementation of a Clinical Needs Assessment designed to identify the necessary supports or reasonable accommodations for nursing and midwifery students with a disability undertaking work placements in clinical practice.

Evaluation of a clinical needs assessment and exploration of the associated supports for students with a disability in clinical practice: part 2.

Engagement and successful completion of nursing and midwifery programmes may be predicated on the identification and implementation of reasonable accommodations to facilitate clinical learning for students with a disability. This qualitative study aims to evaluate a clinical needs assessment for students with a disability and explore their experiences of support in clinical practice. A purposive sample of year one undergraduate students was used.