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| C HicksSummaryAffiliation: University of Birmingham Country: UK Publications
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Translating and validating a Training Needs Assessment tool into GreekAdelais Markaki
Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Dept of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
BMC Health Serv Res 7:65. 2007..This study aims to describe the translation, adaptation and validation of the TNA questionnaire into Greek language and discuss possibilities of its use in primary care settings...- Changing Childbirth: a pilot projectCarolyn Hicks
School of Health Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
J Adv Nurs 42:617-28. 2003..To compare the outcomes of an adapted pilot Changing Childbirth initiative providing continuity of care by a group of known midwives with traditional maternity care... - The occupational profile and associated training needs of the nurse prescriber: an empirical study of family planning nursesC Tyler
Central Family Planning Clinic, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, UK
J Adv Nurs 35:644-53. 2001..This study was an attempt to address these unresolved aspects with family planning nurses... - Assessing the skills for family planning nurse prescribing: development of a psychometrically sound training needs analysis instrumentCarolyn Hicks
School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
J Adv Nurs 37:518-31. 2002..This paper is concerned with the development of an instrument capable of defining the development needs for family planning nurse prescribing... - Assessing the educational needs of community sexual healthcare practitionersCarolyn Hicks
School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Health Soc Care Community 13:323-9. 2005..In this way, improved local healthcare provision could be readily realised, with the potential for reducing current variations in the quality of community sexual health provision... - The educational needs of non-specialist breast care nursesCarolyn Hicks
Professor of Health Care Psychology, School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Nurse Educ Today 23:509-21. 2003..To provide an indicative occupational profile and identify the educational needs of non-specialist nurses working with breast cancer patients... - Antenatal, delivery and postnatal comparisons of maternal satisfaction with two pilot Changing Childbirth schemes compared with a traditional model of careP Spurgeon
The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Midwifery 17:123-32. 2001..From the perspective of maternal well-being, both physical and psychological, the initiative reported here appears to have been highly successful... - An alternative technique for evaluating the effectiveness of continuing professional development courses for health care professionals: a pilot study with practice nursesC Hicks
School of Health Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
J Nurs Manag 9:39-49. 2001..Within health care CPD, very little course evaluation routinely takes place, possibly because the area is relatively new, and secondly because relevant evaluation may be difficult to operationalize... - A cross-cultural tool to identify continuing education needsD Hennessy
School of Continuing Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
Int Nurs Rev 45:109-14. 1998..To plan such educational programmes, a training needs analysis instrument was developed in the UK and used to compare the training needs of nurses in Australia, the USA and the UK. Below, the findings of this survey... - Effect of oral tumour size on quality of life judgements by health care professionals working with head and neck cancer patients: a pilot studyK Reid
Head and Neck Unit, University Hospital Birmingham National Health Service Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
J Laryngol Otol 123:1352-7. 2009..To investigate whether information about the size of an oral tumour influences the multi-disciplinary team's judgement about the quality of life of head and neck cancer patients... - Reluctant empiricists: community mental health nurses and the art of evidence-based praxisPaul Crawford
School of Nursing, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Health Soc Care Community 10:287-98. 2002..This may involve changing organizational cultures and work roles and even encouraging activism on the part of the practitioners so as to enable them to learn from each other and educate and change their work environments... - A Q methodology study of women's experience of enduring postnatal perineal and pelvic floor morbiditySandy Herron-Marx
School of Health Sciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Midwifery 23:322-34. 2007..to explore women's experiences of enduring postnatal perineal and pelvic floor morbidity... - Perceptions of the learning environment in higher specialist training of doctors: implications for recruitment and retentionVinette Cross
School of Health, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
Med Educ 40:121-8. 2006.... - Measuring nursing workload in intensive care: an observational study using closed circuit video camerasRenee Adomat
School of Health Sciences Nursing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
J Adv Nurs 42:402-12. 2003..However, many mechanically ventilated critically ill patients (allocated a high category of care) may need less nursing care than patients who are self-ventilating and allocated a lower level of dependence... - Using cost-effectiveness analysis to compare Hospital at Home and in-patient interventions. Part 1Rebecca Jester
School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
J Clin Nurs 12:13-9. 2003..In addition informal carers reported 107 positive comments compared with 36 negative comments related to HaH care and all except one of the 21 carers would choose HaH again in preference to in-patient care... - The new GMS contract: impact and implications for managing the changesPeter Spurgeon
University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2RT, UK
Health Serv Manage Res 18:75-85. 2005.... - Using cost-effectiveness analysis to compare Hospital at Home and in-patient interventions. Part 2Rebecca Jester
The School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
J Clin Nurs 12:20-7. 2003..9 days per patient and a significant reduction in cost per treatment day because of removal of hospital overhead costs and reduced special duty payments even when offset against additional transport, community and outpatient costs... - The tendering process: flaws and allPeter Spurgeon
Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK
Health Serv Manage Res 16:188-93. 2003..An alternative preferred provider relationship-based allocative process is advocated as an improvement to the current established tendering procedure... - An exploratory study in the UK of the effectiveness of three different pain management regimens for post-caesarean section womenPamela Snell
Birmingham Women's Hospital, Metchley Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Midwifery 22:249-61. 2006....