Practice Change and Bricolage in Nursing

Embedding Quality Improvement Change into Nursing Practice

Kai Tiaki Nursing Research September 2012 vol 3 no 1 24 Patricia Mitchell Involving clinicians, especially nurses, is critical to improving quality in health care. In this paper, we report on a study that explored nurses’ perceptions of quality improvement (QI) change. Health care organisations and governments, both in New Zealand and other developed countries, are striving to reduce escalating...

Dementia Education: Does It Change Nursing Practice?

Mediating change: translation and mediation in the context of bricolage

Technology transfer has become recognised as a key factor in people’s efforts to implement information technology in diverse spheres of modern life, and particularly at the workplace. However, ‘transfer’ is a unidirectional conceptualisation of the processes of technology design and implementation. It veils the work of interpretation, mediation, and reshaping involved in the processes of ‘techn...

Reflective Practice in Nursing Care

Introduction: Reflective practice is a generic term for intellectual and affective activities that create new understanding and appreciation of experiences. Various studies have emphasized on the benefits of reflection in nursing. This article reviewed benefits and barriers of reflective practice in nursing. Methods: In this review article, library references, some scientific databases (Elsevi...

Supporting Change in Oncology Nursing Practice in Kuwait.

As countries around the world struggle to provide oncology care and treatment to their populations, nurses, as the largest healthcare workforce, are faced with the challenge of obtaining, maintaining, and developing specialized oncology nursing knowledge and expertise. Strategies that can be deployed at a local level to support nurses with integrating new knowledge into practice are important i...