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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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Spotlight on rural nurses: implications for a new nursing discipline in jordan
TL;DR: The findings indicate that educational preparation, skill-mix, access to professional development, the lack of collegiate support, nursing practice standards, ineffective management, poor distribution of health resources and geographic isolation are important factors impacting on the CPHCC nurses’ practice.
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Case Study of Program Management in Canada
Liza Heslop,Karen Francis +1 more
TL;DR: The ways in which seven Canadian healthcare officials in two organizations negotiated, interpreted and implemented recent changes to their system of care delivery in the late 1990s are explored.
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Health care providers' perceptions of factors that influence the provision of acute stroke care in urban and rural settings: A qualitative study.
TL;DR: The identified factors help to characterise acute stroke care within urban and rural hospitals and will assist quality improvement efforts in Tasmania’s hospitals.
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Responding to a rural health workforce shortfall: double degree preparation of the nurse midwife
Karen Francis,Melanie Birks,Mohammad Al-Motlaq,Jenny Davis,Maureen Miles,Carolyn Maree Bailey +5 more
TL;DR: Nursing education in Australia has been provided in the tertiary sector since the mid 1980s although the complete transfer of hospital based programs was not finalised until 1993.
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Using storylines for bilingual dissemination of a grounded theory.
TL;DR: In insight into the crafting of a storyline to disseminate a grounded theory study describing how people in Indonesia with diabetes learn about their disease, the authors explain how the researchers developed the storyline.