Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
Aim To obtain consumer views about pressure sore development, particularly in A&E departments.
As part of their implementation programme of leg ulcer guidelines, the group conducted a study of the caseload and attitudes and tra
Foot care is very important if patients with diabetes are to avoid ulceration complications.
Background
The growing prevalence of advance statements represents an important shift away from paternalistic care.
<p>The study OF gender related issues, in particular masculinity in nursing, has always been limited and fragmented.
Should relatives be given the choice to witness the resuscitation of a family member?
Nurses are insistent that they have a great deal more to offer than being merely doctors handmaidens.
Bed management problems exist throughout the NHS but are not usually highlighted in mental health.
Many patients experience the discomfort of post-operative nausea and vomiting.
Nurses are well aware of the potential threat of violence from patients, but attacks by visitors are now increasingly common.
Aim
The aim of this study was to compare intravenous and epidural analgesia for patients undergoing total knee replacements. Side effects of analgesia were assessed to see whether they influenced patient satisfaction.
Method
Many people with incontinence and bladder problems have an underlying neurogenic cause, with damage to the neurological pathways which regulate the function of the bladder.
Most of us probably feel that we know enough about healthy eating and fibre in the diet; after all we have been advising people to eat more of it for years. But do we know all that we should?
<p> RESEARCH NURSES are increasingly employed tounder take various roles in the conduct of clinical trials. These nurses work in an extended and specialised role, frequently in isolation (RCN 1998). As a result, research nurses can find themselves cutoff from professional nursing agendas.
Aim
The aim of this article is to provide an account of an attempt to set up a randomised control trial (RCT) to evaluate the effects of programmes of continuing professional education on nursing practice.
Method
<p>THIS PROJECT involved an extensive literature review (Langton et al 1999) and an examination of English National Board (ENB) post-regis- ftration cancer nursing and palliative care courses.</p>
