Publications by authors named "Susan R Pullon"
Robust demonstration of high-quality, fit-for-purpose interprofessional education (IPE) is essential for today's health professional students, staff, curricula, and regulatory bodies. As IPE moves from discrete "events" to fully embedded spirals of learning across degree programme curricula, effective mechanisms for monitoring continuous quality improvement are paramount. An accreditation tool was therefore developed for all learning activities contributing to the IPE curriculum of a university in Aotearoa New Zealand.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: New Zealanders dying in public hospitals or hospices are increasingly being discharged and admitted-to-die in aged residential care (ARC) facilities as hospitals and hospices struggle to meet demand. This study sought to investigate how care is delivered to patients admitted-to-die in an ARC facility.
Methods: A mixed-methods case study including a clinical notes review of seven patients who died in one ARC facility within three months of admission and a focus group with ARC facility staff and visiting professionals from other organisations.
Aim: General practices are providing clinically-based training for rapidly increasing numbers of medical (and other health professional) trainees. This study investigated capacity and intention of general practices to additionally teach junior doctors (now required to undertake community-based attachments by the New Zealand Medical Council) alongside current trainees in their service.
Methods: A web-based/telephone survey of all general practices was developed and administered November 2015-April 2016.
Objectives: To understand the discourse amongst a range of health professional students, including nursing, talking about nurses and nursing.
Design: A qualitative descriptive study which employed the use of focus groups.
Settings: A rural and residential interprofessional immersion programme in a rural location in New Zealand.