NURS11148 Health & Human Behaviour – Blackboard content
Week 1
Resources on the importance of teamwork.
Journal articles
Clark M, Nguyen H, Bray C & Levine R 2008, 'Team-based learning in an undergraduate nursing course', Journal of Nursing Education, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 111-117, (online CINAHL with Full Text).
Feingold C, Cobb M, Hernandez Givens R, Arnold J, Joslin S & Keller J. 2008, 'Student perceptions of team learning in nursing education', Journal of Nursing Education, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 214-222, (online CINAHL with Full Text).
Northway T & Mawdsley C 2008, 'The Canadian ICU collaborative: working together to improve patient outcomes as an interprofessional team', Dynamics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 30-31, (online CINAHL with Full Text).
Phillips J, Davidson P, Jackson D & Kristjanson L 2008, 'Multi-faceted palliative care intervention: aged care nurses' and care assistants' perceptions and experiences', Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 216-227, (online Wiley InterScience).
Rossen E, Bartlett R & Herrick C 2008, 'Interdisciplinary collaboration: the need to revisit', Issues in Mental Health Nursing, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 387-396, (online Informaworld).
Books available through CQUniversity Library.
Hay, I 2006,Making the grade : a guide to successful communication and study. 3rd ed. South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press.
Call Number: 378.170281 14/2006
Contents: Starting out: university study and you. Settling down: studying alone. Teaming up: working in groups. Finding out: becoming well informed. Writing up: essay-writing. Arguing through: preparing and presenting written argument. Stating facts: writing research reports and laboratory reports. Making sense: writing annotated bibliographies, summaries and reviews. Writing well: language and sentence structure. Dotting 'i's: using punctuation correctly. Owning up: acknowledging sources. Speaking out: public speaking. Showing off: communicating with figures and tables. Finding ground: making maps. Pasting up: preparing posters. Facing up: coping with exams.
Summary: Making the Grade is a comprehensive reference for university students and staff on all aspects of higher education study and communication. It offers advice on completing university assignments and assessment tasks in a way that will help students 'make the grade'. Covering all aspects of university learning in the order in which students are likely to encounter them, the book begins by dealing with listening skills and effective time management, and concludes with advice on submitting answers during an electronic exam sitting. In between, it investigates and explains all formats in which lecturers usually ask students to convey their ideas, including essays, reports, annotated bibliographies, reviews, oral presentations, posters, figures and tables. It also offers assistance on teamwork, revision, referencing and more.
Diem, E 2005,Community health nursing projects : making a difference Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Call Number: 610.7343 61
Contents: Pt. 1. Framing small scale community health nursing projects -- 1. Community health nursing : using projects as an entry point to practice / E. Diem -- 2. Team building / E. Diem -- Pt. 2. The development of projects -- 3. Starting well : beginning a small scale project / A. Moyer -- 4. Collaborative assessment / E. Diem -- 5. Determining action statements from collaborative assessment / E. Diem -- 6. Planning the collaborative action and evaluation / E. Diem -- 7. Taking collaborative action / E. Diem -- 8. Ending well / E. Diem -- Pt. 3. Collaborative assessment and action : across settings, populations, and issues -- 9. Family home visiting projects / E. Diem -- 10. Community capacity building / E. Diem -- 11. Building coalitions / A. Moyer -- 12. Population health and policy change : managing multiple projects / A. Moyer -- 13. Community health programs and evaluation / A. Moyer -- 14. Using the community health nursing process in practice / E. Diem. App. A. Consultative presentations -- App. B. Clear communication -- App. C. Forms for community and teamwork -- App. D. Canadian community health nursing standards of practice.
Summary: "This new text provides the reliable step-by-step direction, detailed parameters, multidisciplinary perspectives, and invaluable insight that will ensure optimum results. From building a great team and strong coalitions ... to planning and taking collaborative action ... to managing multiple projects for population health and policy change - you'll learn how to start and end the project well ... and everything in between!"--BOOK JACKET.
Hampson, GD2002Practice nurse handbook.4th ed. Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Science.
Call Number: 610.73 90/2002
Contents: 1. Teamwork in General Practice -- 2. General Practice Nursing -- 3. Practice Organisation -- 4. Management of the Nurses' Rooms -- 5. Nursing Treatments and Procedures -- 6. Diagnostic and Screening Tests -- 7. Emergency Situations -- 8. Common Medical Conditions -- 9. Health Promotion -- 10. Child Health, Childhood and Adult Immunisation -- 11. Travel Health -- 12. Sexual Health -- 13. Women's Health -- 14. Men's Health -- 15. Mental Health -- 16. Supporting Patients with Chronic Diseases.
Summary: This handbook is a guide to all aspects of clinical practice, health promotion and practice management for nurses in general practice. The book includes chapters on common medical conditions, screening tests, sexual health, travel health, immunisations and emergency situations.
Planning for the semester
It is advisable to create a plan for your assessment tasks for the entire semester. This will allow you to determine the required time to complete your tasks without too much stress.
Working back from the assessment due date is a useful way of establishing how much time you have to complete the assessment. Always remember that finding relevant information takes time (even experts need time to locate and evaluate information).
Week 2
Preparing the background for your case study.
There are a number of areas to be covered in your case study. As the weeks progress I will provide you with some tips and hints on how to locate relevant information to support your learning.
What does Part 1 really cover?
Part 1 is designed to introduces us to the basic concepts of health and illness perceptions and consolidates our understanding through their application to the case study client.
In week 1 different models of illness were presented. There are a number of resources that will help you to gain a better understanding of these models.
What do I need to know? / Where do I find this information? / How do I find it?Differences between biopsychosocial and medical models of illness / text book / Use the book index to locate the relevant pages
other books / Search the library catalogue for books written on the models
Journal articles can provide information on the discussion amongst practitioners on the value of each model and also how the models can be applied in specific cases. / Search CINAHL, SocIndex (on EbscoHost) or PsycInfo (on CSA) for relevant journal articles
Some relevant results of a search in CINAHL (an online demostration of how to search is available under Resources) using a CINAHL Heading search on Models, Theoretical (exploded to include narrower subject headings) combined using AND with a keyword search on biopsychosocial include:
Reneman MF, Poels BJJ, Geertzen JHB & Dijkstra PU 2006, 'Back pain and backpacks in children: biomedical or biopsychosocial model?', Disability & Rehabilitation, vol 28, no. 20, pp. 1293-1297, (online CINAHL with Full Text).
Alonso, Y 2004, 'The biopsychosocial model in medical research: the evolution of the health concept over the last two decades' Patient Education and Counseling, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 239-44.
Suls, J 2004, 'Evolution of the biopsychosocial model: prospects and challenges for health psychology', Health Psychology, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 119-25.
After reading these articles it became apparent that there was an article seminal to this topic.
Engel, G 1977, 'The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine', Science, vol. 196, pp. 129-36. (available from the Rockhampton library - you can request a copy on document delivery from the Request a Photocopy form web page - http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au/cgi-bin/forms/extpcopy.cgi)
Week 3
Understanding reactions to chronic conditions
There are a number of resources available on how patients respond to chronic conditions.
Often the best method of locating information is to search on the condition itself.
An example search for journal articles on the general topic within CINAHL with Full Text is provided below.
MW "Chronic Disease" and MW "psychosocial factors" and (coping OR understanding)
Note: MW = words within subject headings
Useful databases to search include:
1. CINAHL with Full Text
2. PsycINFO
3. ProQuest
Week 4
Health behaviours and how to change health behaviours
There are a number of resources that will help you to gain a better understanding of health behaviours and behavioural change.
What do I need to know? / Where do I find this information? / How do I find it?Understand various health behaviours and recognise those that improve health.
Apply the principles of learning and memory to explain the development of health behaviours / text book / Use the book index to locate the relevant pages
other books / Search the library catalogue for books written on health behaviours. Performing a keyword search in the Library catalogue will provide relevant results. A suggested search strategy is a subject heading search on "health attitudes".
Journal articles can provide information on the discussion amongst practitioners on the value of each model and also how the models can be applied in specific cases. / Search CINAHL, SocIndex (on EbscoHost) or PsycInfo (on CSA) for relevant journal articles
Human behaviour is an area of research in psychology. The library has a number of psychology resources including PsycINFO, PsycBOOKS.
What do I need to know? / Where do I find this information? / How do I find it?The underlying factors associated with behavioural change / text book / Use the book index to locate the relevant pages
other books / Search the library catalogue or PsycBOOKS background information on behavioural change
Journal articles can provide information on the discussion amongst practitioners models of behavioural change and how they can be applied in specific cases. / Search CINAHL, SocIndex (on EbscoHost) or PsycInfo (on CSA) for relevant journal articles
4. For general or background information it is best to use PsycBOOKS (on CSA) on the broad topic, in this case a search on "health behavior" (Note: I am using the American spelling as the database I am searching is American) and "changing" provided relevant results.
Week 5
Internet resources
Up to this point I have not mentioned the Internet as an information source. I am aware that many students use Google or other search engines to locate information for their assignments.
I would like to add a word of warning. Not all Internet sites are valid for use in university assignments. I recommend the Internet Detective an online tutorial which explains how to search the Internet for valid, reliable information. The section What's the Story details the level of Internet use expected of university students.
Finding information is only part of the information seeking process. You need to evaluate what you have found. There are a number of questions you should ask about a resource before including it in your assignment. These questions should be applied to all resources you find.
Week 6
Evaluating information
Sources of information include books, journals, magazines, newspapers, conference reports, music scores and a variety of other items. Before using any source of information in your assignment (even those accessed through online databases) ask the following questions. Lecturers like to see academic research used in your assignments.
Currency
When was the information written or made available?
Check the copyright or publication date. Some subjects require the most recent information available; other subjects may be covered adequately in earlier published materials.
Reliability
What are the credentials of the author? Is the author widely published on this subject? How has the author made conclusions using personal opinion, interviews, research, experience? How valid are the conclusions reached? Who published or funded the information/writing? Has the information been reviewed/edited? Is there the possibility of any bias in the writing?
Coverage
Is there sufficient depth to the information presented? Has the information been abridged (shortened)? Does the information support other sources or update information already found? Is the reference list/bibliography appropriate?
Accuracy
Is the information verifiable by research, statistics or studies? Are there any obvious errors in the presentation/content? Is the information referenced? Is a reference list/bibliography included?
Author credentials
Who is the author? What are the author's credentials on this subject? Is the author qualified to write on this subject?
Week 7
Referencing
Why manage your reference list?
In the process of researching & writing your assignment it's very easy to forget to note a source or where a quote came from – a simple system helps you keep all the information you need.
Suggestions for keeping that information
Create a Word document for your assignment & give it a name that's easy to recognise.
eg. RefNURS10087A1 - Ref = References, Course number=NURS10087 & Assignment Number 1.
You could use a system like this for all your assignments & you'll easily identify which file you need.
Always keep a backup of any computer file, either in print or on the student drive. You never know when it will be needed.
Gathering the bibliographic information
Start by being really clear about what information you need to reference correctly – perhaps write an example of each source (eg journal article, book, website). You'll find the correct style for the School on the CQU Referencing Website .
Enter references in the same order as the reference list requires – you'll be building your reference list as you go.
If you photocopy or print out an article or book chapter, make sure that all the bibliographic (referencing) information is recorded – you may have to write some details on for yourself – especially if you have photocopied pages from a book.
In-text referencing for quotes & paraphrasing
When taking down a quote, write down your thoughts about it too – sometimes (no matter how good it is) you forget why you wanted to use it.
Every time you include some in-text referencing in your assignment notes, put the relevant source information into the reference list – then you won't have to chase up any sources.