Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland
Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland

Author: Yvonne O'Shea

Publisher: Orpen Press

Published: 2008-10-27

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1909518042

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Over the past ten years, nursing and midwifery in Ireland have experienced a considerable number of changes, driven principally by the Report of the Commission on Nursing, published in 1998, and the health service reform programme, announced in 2003. In the same period, Irish society has become wealthier and more culturally diverse, creating new challenges for nursing and midwifery. In Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland, Yvonne O'Shea sets out to identify the role for nursing and midwifery in the health services of the future in Ireland and to formulate a strategy for the professional development required for the professions. The book has three parts. Part 1 sets out to establish the context within which the professions of nursing and midwifery operate in Ireland by examining the implications of recent key policy developments and the roles played by the Report of the Commission on Nursing and the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery. Part 2 forms the core of the book and is based on seventy-seven interviews with senior figures in the health services, including policymakers, service managers, medical consultants, educators and leaders of nursing and midwifery. Part 3 goes on to outline a strategy for the professional development of nursing and midwifery, including key steps necessary to reach objectives and to realise the strategy's long-term vision. Published at a time of significant change within the health services in Ireland, the book is intended as a contribution to ensuring that nursing and midwifery take their place at the heart of health service transformation. It will be of great value to all role players in the Irish health service.

Care to Remember
Care to Remember

Author: Gerard M. Fealy

Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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The story of nursing and midwifery in Ireland has remained hidden in the pages of medical and social history. This book tells that story.

Nursing Ethics
Nursing Ethics

Author: Dolores Dooley

Publisher: Gill Education

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780717149865

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A new edition of this popular textbook, which presents a unique and interactive approach to nursing ethics using cases, discussion questions and summaries to foster the development of a wide range of ethical skills and intelligences. New to this edition Themes of 'communication as an ethical value' and 'moral distress and moral space and ethical environment' are integrated as concepts and realities that impact on institutional structures and represent personal challenges for staff and hospital structures. Includes a new chapter on moral disagreement and a more interactive chapter on the ethics of nursing research. Provides more focus on themes and includes a suggested professional responsibilities section at the end of most chapters. Considers ethical cases and concerns of nurses working in an Irish context, relating them to Irish Law and the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses and Midwives. Ethical theories are addressed throughout the text and presented in a coherent and accessible manner. New terms are defined, ethical and legal principles are explained, familiar notions are probed and arguments are evaluated. A glossary of terms to define concepts is provide in each chapter. Summaries are provided at the end of each section and chapter. WRITTEN FOR - Undergraduate and postgraduate student nurses - Staff nurses undertaking post-registration programmes A new layout and approach delivers all the essential information at a reduced price

Irish Insanity
Irish Insanity

Author: Damien Brennan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1136237070

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The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and provided a convenient form of institutional intervention to manage a host of social problems. Irish Insanity identifies the long-term trends in institutional residency through the development of a detailed empirical data set, based on an analysis of original copies of the reports of Inspector of Asylums/Mental Hospitals in Ireland. Damien Brennan explores core social and historical features linked to this data including: the political context governance and social policy the relationship between church and state changing economic structures and social deprivation professionalization legislation and systems of admission and discharge categorisation and diagnostic criteria international developments family dynamics This book demonstrates that the actual rate of asylum utilisation in Ireland was the highest by international standards, but challenges the idea that an "epidemic of Irish insanity" actually existed. Offering a historical and sociological insight into an institutional legacy that is unusual within the international context, this book will be of particular relevance and interest to scholars within the fields of sociology, criminology, law, history, Irish studies, social policy, anthropology, nursing and medicine.

The Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland
The Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland

Author: Yvonne O’Shea

Publisher: Orpen Press

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1909518026

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The Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland: Key Challenges for the Twenty-First Century provides a unique overview of the many changes that are taking place in the Irish health services, and details how they will continue to affect the professions of nursing and midwifery. It explores how nurses and midwives interact with others in the health services and how nursing and midwifery are a rich resource in the delivery of an efficient and effective healthcare service. This book is a comprehensive guide to what it means to be a nurse or midwife in today’s Irish health services. It is essential reading for all those involved in nursing and midwifery education (both students and educators), and is a reference book for clinical practitioners, employers and all those involved in the formulation of policies for the health services and the regulation of the professions.

Midwifery, Freedom to Practise?
Midwifery, Freedom to Practise?

Author: Lindsay Reid

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0443103127

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This book deals with the central theme of freedom to practise midwifery in selected countries of the world. Each chapter has a separate author who has specific knowledge of the country for that chapter either as a citizen or researcher. The underpinning theme of this book is the philosophy of best midwifery practice - particularly that which is evidence-based. To clarify the meaning of the term, the book includes an initial chapter that discusses the aims and realities of achieving 'best practice' - wherever in the world a midwife may be and under whatever circumstances she may be working.

Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nursing Research
Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nursing Research

Author: Cheryl Tatano Beck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 1136703330

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Qualitative research, once on the fringes, now plays a central part in advancing nursing and midwifery knowledge, contributing to the development of the evidence base for healthcare practice. Divided into four parts, this authoritative handbook contains over forty chapters on the state of the art and science of qualitative research in nursing. The first part begins by addressing the significance of qualitative inquiry to the development of nursing knowledge, and then goes on to explore in depth programs of qualitative nursing research. The second section focuses on a wide range of core qualitative methods, from descriptive phenomenology, through to formal grounded theory and to ethnography, and narrative research. The third section highlights key issues and controversies in contemporary qualitative nursing research, including discussion of ethical and political issues, evidence-based practice and Internet research. The final section takes a unique look at qualitative nursing research as it is practiced throughout the world with chapters on countries and regions from the UK and Europe, North America, Australasia, Latin America, to Japan, China, and Korea. With an international selection of established scholars contributing, this is an essential overview and will help to propel qualitative research in nursing well into the twenty-first century. It is an invaluable reference for all nursing researchers.