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Sandra Hirst
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Latest papers
Simulation-Based Education to Support Nurses' Critical Thinking in Delirium Recognition: A Scoping Review.
Journal of advanced nursing · 2026 · senior author
Effectiveness of a community program for older adults with type 2 diabetes and multimorbidity: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
BMC Geriatrics · 2020
Professional Socialization: A Grounded Theory of the Clinical Reasoning Processes That RNs and LPNs Use to Recognize Delirium.
Clinical nursing research · 2019
Latest funding
- $1,396,126
Resident-to-Resident Abuse in Long-Term Care: Reporting for Change
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $2,500,000
Innovative Community-Based Approaches to Promote Optimal Aging for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions and their Caregivers
CIHR · 2013 · Co-investigator
- $25,000
Defining and Measuring Elder Abuse: Domestic and International Perspectives
CIHR · 2012 · Co-investigator
6 publications.
Simulation-Based Education to Support Nurses' Critical Thinking in Delirium Recognition: A Scoping Review.
El Hussein MT, Sheehan DS, Hirst S
Effectiveness of a community program for older adults with type 2 diabetes and multimorbidity: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Miklavcic JJ, Fraser KD, Ploeg J, Markle-Reid M, Fisher K, Gafni A, Griffith LE, Hirst S, Sadowski CA, Thabane L
Professional Socialization: A Grounded Theory of the Clinical Reasoning Processes That RNs and LPNs Use to Recognize Delirium.
El Hussein M, Hirst S, Osuji J
Tracking the footsteps: a constructivist grounded theory of the clinical reasoning processes that registered nurses use to recognise delirium.
El Hussein M, Hirst S
Chasing the Mirage: a grounded theory of the clinical reasoning processes that Registered Nurses use to recognize delirium.
El Hussein M, Hirst S
Factors that contribute to underrecognition of delirium by registered nurses in acute care settings: a scoping review of the literature to explain this phenomenon.
El Hussein M, Hirst S, Salyers V
Resident-to-Resident Abuse in Long-Term Care: Reporting for Change
Principal investigators: McDonald, Lynn
Keywords: Health Services; Health Systems; Social/ Cultural/ Environmental/ Population Health
Innovative Community-Based Approaches to Promote Optimal Aging for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions and their Caregivers
Principal investigators: Ploeg, Jenny; Bournes, Debra A; Markle-Reid, Maureen Frances
Keywords: Access; Capacity Building; Client And Family Centred; Economic Evaluation; Family Caregivers; Interprofessional Team; Older Adults; Prevention & Management Of Multiple Chronic Conditions; Primary Health Care Interventions; Quality Of Life
Defining and Measuring Elder Abuse: Domestic and International Perspectives
Principal investigators: McDonald, Lynn
Keywords: Elder Abuse; Gerontology; Health; Interdisciplinary; Knowledge Mobilization; Older Adults; Policy; Practice; Safety
Improving Primary Healthcare for Frail Older Persons and their Caregivers
Principal investigators: Ploeg, Jenny; Brookman, Catherine; Markle-Reid, Maureen Frances
Keywords: Caregivers; Chronic Disease Management; Disease Prevention And Health Promotion; Frail Older Persons; Home And Community Care
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Maureen Frances Markle-Reid and Jenny Ploeg: 103 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Amiram Jacob Gafni: 94 shared papers
- Amiram Jacob Gafni and Maureen Frances Markle-Reid: 30 shared papers
- Lauren Griffith and Jenny Ploeg: 26 shared papers
- Lauren Griffith and Maureen Frances Markle-Reid: 24 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Lauren Griffith: 17 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Maureen Frances Markle-Reid: 17 shared papers
- Ross Upshur and Maureen Frances Markle-Reid: 17 shared papers
- Ross Upshur and Jenny Ploeg: 17 shared papers
- Amiram Jacob Gafni and Jenny Ploeg: 16 shared papers
- Lauren Griffith and Ross Upshur: 13 shared papers
- Lehana Thabane and Sandra Hirst: 1 shared paper
- Lauren Griffith and Sandra Hirst: 1 shared paper
- Amiram Jacob Gafni and Sandra Hirst: 1 shared paper
- Ross Upshur and Sandra Hirst: 1 shared paper
- Maureen Frances Markle-Reid and Sandra Hirst: 1 shared paper
- Jenny Ploeg and Sandra Hirst: 1 shared paper
- Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
- Nursing
- Emeriti
- Earth, Environment & Society
Co-authors at University of Calgary, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Lehana Thabane
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Lauren Griffith
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Amiram Jacob Gafni
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Ross Upshur
Earth, Environment & Society
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Maureen Frances Markle-Reid
Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Jenny Ploeg
Nursing
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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