Trevor Murrells

..To develop an early career job satisfaction instrument that is valid and reliable across the four UK nursing branches...

..To develop a new, valid and reliable instrument that has been designed and evaluated to measure job satisfaction as perceived by nurses with specific aspects of contemporary nursing...

..Sustaining positive experiences, remedying sources of dissatisfaction, and supporting diplomats from all backgrounds should be central to the development of retention strategies...

..Continuing professional development is a high priority for many child health nurses at the outset of their careers. These findings provide an important benchmark for later stages of child branch nurses' careers...

..A national consultation exercise was held as part of a review of mental health nursing in England...

..However, the potential for IPE depends, to some extent, on the readiness of healthcare students to learn together...

..The present study aimed to investigate the competencies of qualifiers from three-year degree and three-year diploma courses in England at one, two and three years after qualification...

..AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. To examine the links between staff experience of work and patient experience of care in a 'Medicine for Older People' (MfOP) service in England...

..The aim of this study was to examine whether practice nurse staffing level is similarly associated with non-elective hospital admissions in three clinical areas: asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and diabetes...

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..In many UK general practices, nurses have been used to deliver results against the indicators of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), a 'pay for performance' scheme...

..New pre- and post-registration nursing competencies are being developed, yet there is much debate about how to define and assess competence. This article outlines some of the features of the current debate...

..Specific aims ascertained: regional variation in retention of locally trained nurses; associations between nurses' profile and retention in training region; and impact on each region of inter-regional movement of nurses...

..The findings are considered in the context of current debates about the future shape of nurse education in the UK...

..To estimate prevalence and severity of patients' self-perceived supportive care needs in the immediate post-treatment phase and identify predictors of unmet need...

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..The implications of the findings for child health nurses' careers are discussed and considered in relation to two key questions: should efforts be directed towards ensuring greater provision of career guidance, and if so, by whom?..

..Many widely used approaches for reliability assessment can fail to consider the agreement between measures at all and can give an entirely misleading impression of an instrument's suitability for use in research or practice...

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..Data obtained from further phases of this longitudinal study will indicate to what extent course experiences influence later career decisions...

..Currently, there is no detailed or tangible method available for comparison, which is perceived as an obstacle to EU nurse workforce mobility...