Linda Sweet
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Preparing medical students as agentic learners through enhancing student engagement in clinical education.
(New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education, 2013)Preparing medical students to be agentic learners is held to be increasingly important. This is because beyond sequencing, enhancing and varying of experiences across university and health care settings, medical students ... -
A survey of child care centers about breastfeeding support in Adelaide, South Australia.
(SAGE Publications, 2013-05)Background: Australia has high rates of breastfeeding initiation, with a consistent decline over the first year. Furthermore, there is a growing trend of maternal employment and rising numbers of children enrolled in ... -
Barriers and enablers to good communication and information-sharing practices in care planning for chronic condition management
(CSIRO Publishing, 2013-11-01)Our aim was to document current communication and information-sharing practices and to identify the barriers and enablers to good practices within the context of care planning for chronic condition management. Further aims ... -
The midwifery miniCEX--a valuable clinical assessment tool for midwifery education
(Elsevier, 2013-03)Background Midwifery students, clinicians and educators in Australia identified the need for improved feedback for midwifery students whilst they are on clinical placement; in particular formative assessment. The miniCEX ... -
Control in chronic condition self-care management: how it occurs in the health worker–client relationship and implications for client empowerment
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014-02)Aim. To examine health worker–client interactions during care planning to understand processes that foster client empowerment and disempowerment. Background. It is unclear how health worker–client exchanges and information ... -
The Curriculum and Pedagogic Properties of Practice-based Experiences: The Case of Midwifery Students
(Springer Verlag, 2014-07-01)This paper outlines curriculum considerations for the ordering, enactment and experiencing of practice-based experiences (e.g. practicums) in tertiary education programs developing occupational specific capacities. ... -
Work-integrated learning (WIL) supervisors and non-supervisors of allied health professional students.
(James Cook University, 2013-03)Introduction: This study sought to characterise the allied health professional (AHP) workforce of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, in order to understand the influence of student supervision on workload, job ... -
Learning styles in vertically integrated teaching.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013-10)Background: With vertical integration, registrars and medical students attend the same educational workshops. It is not known whether these learners have similar or different learning styles related to their level of ... -
An exploration of the midwifery continuity of care program at one Australian University as a symbiotic clinical education model.
(Elsevier, 2013-03)Objective This discussion paper analyses a midwifery Continuity of Care program at an Australian University with the symbiotic clinical education model, to identify strengths and weakness, and identify ways in which this ... -
Breastfeeding a preterm infant and the objectification of breastmilk
(Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA), 2006)This paper presents the theme of objectification of breastmilk, which results from long-term breast expression by parents of hospitalised very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm infants. An interpretive phenomenological study, ... -
Birth of a very low birth weight preterm infant and the intention to breastfeed 'naturally'.
(Elsevier, 2008-03)Summary An interpretive phenomenological study involving 17 Australian parents was under- taken to explore parents’ experiences of breastfeeding very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm infants from birth to 12 months of age. ... -
Family Law as a determinant of child health and welfare: Shared parenting, breastfeeding and the best interests of the child
(e-Content Management, 2009)In July 2006 the Australian Government introduced the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 (Cth) (the Shared Parental Responsibility Act 2006) which puts in place a legal presumption of shared ... -
Fathers and breast feeding very-low-birthweight preterm babies
(Elsevier, 2009)Objective: to explore fathers’ experiences of the breast feeding of their very-low-birthweight preterm babies from birth to 12 months of age. Design: a qualitative study using interpretive phenomenology. Data ... -
Breastfeeding throughout legal separation: women's experiences of the Australian Family Law system
(SAGE Publications, 2010)In 2006, the Australian Government introduced the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 (Cth), which put in place a legal presumption of shared parental responsibility for children after separation ... -
Identification of parental stressors in an Australian neonatal intensive care unit
(Cambridge Publishing, 2012)Aims: This study explored the types and levels of stress in parents with infants in a South Australian NICU, and identifies the psychometric properties of the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS:NICU) ... -
Are medical students influenced by preceptors in making career choices, and if so how? A systematic review
(James Cook University, 2012)Introduction: Increasingly medical students undertake clinical training in distributed learning environments. The driving factor for this is predominantly to address medical workforce shortages. In these environments ... -
Developing an interprofessional capability framework for teaching healthcare students in a primary healthcare setting
(Informa Healthcare, 2013-11-30)This article is based on a partnership between a primary health service and a university whose shared goal was to prepare students and graduates for interprofessional practice (IPP). This collaborative process led to the ... -
From the nurses' station to the health team hub: How can design promote interprofessional collaboration?
(Informa Healthcare, 2012-01)Interprofessional practice implies that health professionals are able to contribute patient care in a collaborative environment. In this paper, it is argued that in a hospital the nurses’ station is a form of symbolic ... -
Expressed breast milk as 'connection' and its influence on the construction of 'motherhood' for mothers of preterm infants: a qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background Breast milk is considered the optimal nutrition for all newborn infants. While there is high initiation of lactation among mothers of preterm infants in Australia, there is a rapid decline of continued lactation. ... -
Integration of primary health services: being put together does not mean they will work together
(BioMed Central, 2014-01)Background This paper reports on an Australian experience of co-locating a range of different primary health services into one building, with the aim of providing integrated services. It discusses some of the early ...
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