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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD

@frazerunderwood.bsky.social
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#NursingActivist | Associate Clinical Professor and Consultant Nurse in Older People’s Healthcare at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | Co-Director of the South West Clinical School in Cornwall with the University of Plymouth | #GrowingClinicalAcademics

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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Presenting more synergy - @lisaburrowsphd.bsky.social illustrating the similarities between NIHR Senior Research Leaders with roles are primarily focus in research delivery and in clinical academic workforce development = the same! #BreakingDownTheSilos
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Synergy between the objectives of the @swclinicalschools.bsky.social and those of the NIHR Senior Research Leader role presented by @lisaburrowsphd.bsky.social at the South West Clinical School event today
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Great to hear @tantamkate.bsky.social present - and motivate - the conference room in the @swclinicalschools.bsky.social event today in Plymouth
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Dr Sharon Huish’s reflections on the benifits research brings to the clinical academic in practice at today’s @swclinicalschools.bsky.social annual conference
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Great to be #OutAndAbout today in stormy Plymouth at the @swclinicalschools.bsky.social 10th Annual Conference - WOW where have those ten-years gone!
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Vicki Goodwin MBE @vickigphysio.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Have a look at our blog on research inclusion and community rehabilitation @gerisoc.bsky.social @thecsp.bsky.social 👇
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Congratulations to Dr Abi Hall - @gerisoc.bsky.social 2024 Rising Star Award winner #BGSconf
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Congratulations to Dr Peter Hanlon - @gerisoc.bsky.social 2024 Rising Star Award winner #BGSconf
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Ready for the start of three exciting days at the #BGSconf in Belfast
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
‘…By considering both functional mobility capacity and actual mobility performance, we can better understand and address the unique ways in which mobility impacts fall risk.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Falls in Hospitals: Challenging Traditional Risk Assessments With New Insights Into Patient Mobility
Aims and Objectives To explore the association between different aspects of patient functional mobility, specifically, mobility capability (i.e., what the patients could do) versus mobility performa...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“To enhance patient-centred care, consider working with tangible goals on a whiteboard in the patient's room” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Participatory Action Research to Enhance Patient‐Centred Goal Setting in Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Nursing Team's Quest
Aim The aim of this study was to provide insights into how, through exploring goal-setting interventions, a nursing team in geriatric rehabilitation might refine their patient-centred strategies. ...
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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
An @nihr.bsky.social webinar on hospital at home coming up. @ukhahsoc.bsky.social gmg-lgcgroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Hospital at home and virtual wards: What works?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
An ageing population, with increasing numbers of people living with frailty, is placing growing demands on hospital services. But 1 in 5 hospital admissions could be avoided. Shifting care away from ...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“Given the lack of clarity in the published literature, it is tempting to ask whether hospital-acquired deconditioning is a useful descriptor that serves a worthwhile function. If it had utility, would it not be better defined by now?” bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
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Towards a common definition of hospital-acquired deconditioning in adults: a scoping review
Background Hospital-acquired deconditioning is a term used in clinical practice, describing a loss of physical and/or cognitive function associated with hospitalisation. Previous reviews have addresse...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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What Do Nurses Think of Their Role in the Hospital's Restorative Care and Rehabilitation Services for Older Patients?: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Aims To examine rehabilitation nurses' perspectives on their roles in caring for older patients in hospitals, emphasising how they fulfil these roles and their significance in geriatric rehabilitati...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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Capacity and Capability for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Principal Investigator Roles in Healthcare Research: A National Survey
Aims To understand the current capacity and capability for nursing, midwifery and allied health professional (NMAHP) principal investigator roles in England. Design Quantitative online survey. M...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Perceptions of Frail Older Adults on Contributing Factors Causing the Onset of Crises Leading to Hospital Admissions: A Qualitative Study
Aim To explore frail older people's perceptions of factors contributing to a health crisis, describe similarities and depict these in a chronological, aggregated patient journey map. Design An exp...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Inpatients' experiences of falls: A qualitative meta‐synthesis
Objectives Identify and synthesize published qualitative research reporting inpatient experiences of a fall to determine novel insights and understandings of this longstanding complex problem. Res...
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) @agsjournal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Frailty integration in medical specialties: Current evidence and suggested strategies from the Clin-STAR frailty interest group. #geriatrics #medsky agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Spent the morning with #FalmouthUniversity second year sustainability product design students presenting work they started a few months ago exploring kitchen products suitable for aging society. Big thanks to #OccupationalTherapy colleagues who joined the innovation team for the session #Innovation
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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University of Plymouth Centre of Implementation Science
The University of Plymouth Centre for Innovations in Health and Social Care, a JBI Centre of Excellence. Supporting the synthesis of evidence to...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Promoting the Concept Healthy Ageing for Use in Gerontological Health and Social Care Policy and Practice
Aims The concept of healthy or successful ageing dates back to the 1960s, where its goal is more realistic in today's ageing society as a result of effective interventions to control and reduce disa...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Eating Together but Often Feeling Lonely: Residents' Mealtime Experiences in a Nursing Home
Aim To explore residents' experiences of the mealtime environment in nursing home. Design An exploratory qualitative design was employed to gain in-depth insights. Methods Twenty semi-structured...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Exploring Older People's Experiences and Factors Associated With 30‐Day Hospital Readmission: A Qualitative Study Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
Introduction Hospital readmission has a negative impact on older people and the healthcare system. Current hospital readmission research predominantly reports on clinical outcomes based on cross-sec.....
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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(Re)conceptualising Good Care in Hospital Settings From the Perspectives of Older Persons: A Concept Analysis Using Pragmatic Utility
Purpose To understand good care from the perspective of hospitalised older persons. Background Older persons are the largest group of hospital users, and numbers will increase in the next decades....
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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The Experience of Hospitalisation for People Living With Dementia: A Qualitative Exploration of How Context Shapes Experiences
Introduction Dementia has become an increasingly pressing issue in healthcare systems, and acute care settings such as hospitals have been shown to be particularly problematic for people living with...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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The Role of Nurse Implementation Scientists in Leading Health System Transformation in Atlantic Canada and Beyond: A Discussion Paper
Aim To discuss and provide examples of how nurse implementation scientists can support health system transformation. Design Discussion paper. Methods Using Prince Edward Island's health system s...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“This review examined rehabilitation nurses' experiences working with older patients in rehabilitation services. It highlighted gaps in their recognition and decision-making involvement despite being care coordinators, caregivers and advocates who were undervalued as rehabilitation team members.”
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
“… Rehabilitation nurses provided evidence-based care to older patients and encouraged them to participate in their rehabilitation goals … their contributions needed to be appreciated and valued.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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What Do Nurses Think of Their Role in the Hospital's Restorative Care and Rehabilitation Services for Older Patients?: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Aims To examine rehabilitation nurses' perspectives on their roles in caring for older patients in hospitals, emphasising how they fulfil these roles and their significance in geriatric rehabilitati...
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Privileged to co-host our fourth and final lunchtime #ClinicalSchool webinar of our autumn series focused on digital healthcare research - a collaboration between our Clinical School in Cornwall and University of Plymouth’s Centre for Health Technology
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Great webinar on some key nursing workforce research studies that need much wider dissemination and debate - thanks for posting @arcwessex.bsky.social
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Good Luck Trudi
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Ending the day online with South West Clinical School regional colleagues. We’re talking | research strategies | clinical academic career developments | digital research | future events | publication activities
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Excited to support the @nihr.bsky.social Senior Research Leader for Nurses and Midwives team with application reviewing this afternoon - good luck to all the applicants for Cohort3
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JBI @jbiebhc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🔇 We are delighted to let you know that a new chapter, ✨Search methodology for evidence syntheses✨ has been added to the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis: jbi-global-wiki.refined.site/space/MANUAL... #EvidenceSynthesis
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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD @frazerunderwood.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
The South West Clinical School model: an initiative to transform clinical academic career pathways journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #ClinicalAcademics #NMAHP #Research
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