February 2011

Irish staff nurses perceptions of clinical incident reporting

  Clinical incident reporting identifies actual and potential risks to patient safety and then eliminates those risks through a system of procedural changes, policy enactment or changes in staff education. This constitutes the first study to explore perceptions of registered nursing staff towards efficacy of clinical incident reporting in Ireland since the launch of the national “STARSweb”...

Author(s): Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Desmond Cawley and Neil J. Rowan

February 2011

First time stroke survivors' perceptions of their health status and their goals for recovery

  Stroke is an intensely individual, complex and life changing experience. Stroke recovery has many dimensions, and perceptions of health status are thought to affect recovery. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe patients' perceptions of their health status and their goals for recovery from early post stroke. Following ethical approval, semi structured interviews were conducted with...

Author(s):   Irene Hartigan, Elizabeth O’Connell Geraldine McCarthy and Denis O&#;Mahony