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Karen Francis

Researcher at University of Tasmania

Publications -  216
Citations -  8881

Karen Francis is an academic researcher from University of Tasmania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Grounded theory. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 212 publications receiving 7482 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen Francis include University of Adelaide & Australian Catholic University.

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Treatment content in child and adolescent mental health services: development of the treatment recording sheet.

TL;DR: A clinician self-report measure developed to record the specific components of treatment used with adolescents attending a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and was helpful for recording the content of their interventions and understanding their colleagues practice.
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Registered nurses as members of interprofessional primary health care teams in remote or isolated areas of Queensland: collaboration, communication and partnerships in practice

TL;DR: Findings indicated that, in some instances, local health care teams were limited to a single nurse and Indigenous health care worker/s, while in others the teams were more diverse, and in all cases collegial support was available either locally or via telecommunication technology.
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Service to the poor: The foundations of community nursing in England, Ireland and New South Wales

TL;DR: The foundations of community nursing in England, Ireland and New South Wales are described, guided by Foucault's work on power, discourse and knowledge, and it is argued that the common discourse of poverty coupled with the influence of socially advantaged women in the nineteenth century was the impetus for the development of community Nursing.
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Peeling the onion: understanding others’ lived experience

TL;DR: It is suggested that like an onion, several layers have to be peeled away before meaning can be exposed; each cover reveals another layer beneath that is different from before and different from the next.
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The importance of language for nursing: does it convey commonality of meaning and is it important to do so.

TL;DR: Communication for the nursing profession poses a challenge as there are differing requirements for specific situations, though where commonality of language ends and an elite language begins is difficult to determine.