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Beyond profession: nursing leadership in contemporary healthcareRoslyn Sorensen
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Nurs Manag 16:535-44. 2008..To examine nursing leadership in contemporary health care and its potential contribution to health service organization and management...
Disclosing clinical adverse events to patients: can practice inform policy?Ros Sorensen
Faculty Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Broadway, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Health Expect 13:148-59. 2010..To understand patients' and health professionals' experience of Open Disclosure and how practice can inform policy...
Managing quality in cancer services: why improvement isn't easyRoslyn Sorensen
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, PO Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW
Aust Health Rev 29:406-15. 2005..We conclude that service quality needs to be repositioned as an organisational goal, and implemented via a structured process that addresses organisational and social factors, as well as technical factors...
Advocacy at end-of-life research design: an ethnographic study of an ICURoslyn Sorensen
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, 11A The Terraces, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Int J Nurs Stud 44:1343-53. 2007..As concern grows about the cost effectiveness of treatment at end-of-life, nursing expertise and advocacy become significant factors in decision making...
Integrating patients' nonmedical status in end-of-life decision making: structuring communication through 'conferencing'Roslyn Sorensen
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Commun Med 3:185-96. 2006..By integrating both medical and nonmedical factors, conferencing becomes the means of enacting and embedding a multidisciplinary, multidimensional approach to end-of-life care...
Emotional labour: clinicians' attitudes to death and dyingRoslyn Sorensen
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
J Health Organ Manag 23:5-22. 2009..This paper aims to understand the impact of emotional labour in specific health care settings and its potential effect on patient care...
Health care professionals' views of implementing a policy of open disclosure of errorsRos Sorensen
Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
J Health Serv Res Policy 13:227-32. 2008..To understand the views of doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and health managers of open disclosure of medical errors...
The teleo-affective limits of end-of-life care in the intensive care unitRick Iedema
Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Soc Sci Med 60:845-57. 2005....
Redefining accountability in health care: managing the plurality of medical interestsRoslyn Sorensen
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Health (London) 12:87-106. 2008..We conclude that restructuring communication and decision-making processes is imperative to achieve clinical accountability in the workplace and systems accountability in the organization...
Patients' and family members' experiences of open disclosure following adverse eventsRick Iedema
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Int J Qual Health Care 20:421-32. 2008..To explore patients' and family members' perceptions of Open Disclosure of adverse events that occurred during their health care...
Accounting for health-care outcomes: implications for intensive care unit practice and performanceRoslyn Sorensen
Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Health Serv Manage Res 23:97-102. 2010..Organically developing regimens of care within and across specialist clinical units, such as in ICUs, directly impact upon health service performance and accountability...
Management of delirium: a clinical governance approachMary Ann Kulh
Department of Geriatric Medicine, The Canberra Hospital and ANU Medical School, PO Box 11, Woden, ACT 2606
Aust Health Rev 29:246-52. 2005..Although there is a clinical governance strategy in place at the policy level, this has not always filtered through to the level of clinical work...
