Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The transition from student to newly graduated nurse (NGN) can be a period filled with significant stress and uncertainty as NGNs are required to develop and refine practical skills, learn to work with interdisciplinary team members, and adjust to their new professional identity. Clinical externships provide students an opportunity to work alongside nurses as unregulated healthcare… more Full Text: USING INTERPRETIVE DESCRIPTION TO EXPLORE HOW PARTICIPATION IN A CLINICAL EXTERNSHIP INFLUENCES THE TRANSITION TO PRACTICE OF NEWLY GRADUATE NURSES A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the …
Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Poulin, Laura Iona Leone, Thesis advisor (ths): Skinner, Mark W, Degree committee member (dgc): Fox, Mary, Degree committee member (dgc): Patrick, Donna, Degree committee member (dgc): Woodend, Kirsten, Degree committee member (dgc): Brassolotto, Julia, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Aligning health services with aging populations is the fundamental issue of modern Canadian health policy, yet rural older populations still experience compromised patient safety and poor-quality care as they transfer between care settings. As such, contemporary scholars acknowledge that more contextually sensitive studies are needed to better understand the unique health and care… more Full Text: RURAL OLDER ADULT TRANSITIONS IN CARE A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, Ontario, …
Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>A consistent provincial approach to capacity planning for rehabilitative care had been </p><p>identified as a critical gap in the field of health care in Ontario (Rehabilitative Care </p><p>Alliance, 2015a). In response, the rehabilitative care alliance (RCA) developed a needs</p><p>based hip fracture capacity planning canvas together with persons and… more