Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Central venous catheters (CVCs) often become occluded.
Hypodermoclysis (subcutaneous fluid administration) is a valuable means of replacing fluids and maintaining hydration for older people and palliative care p
<p>A year of relentless lobbying by the RCN Continence Care Forum, supported by RCN Forum for Nurses Working with Older People, led to an announcement from Paul Boateng (t
<p>Information systems are a powerful ‘engine’ of change.
<p>Nurses are increasingly being asked to extend or expand their traditional roles, often for reasons other than their own professional development.
<p>Nurses are increasingly being asked to extend or expand their traditional roles, often for reasons other than their own professional development.
The authors review the management of paediatric patients in diabetic ketoacidosis.
<p>The subject of seclusion will always generate professional, legal and moral debate.
<p>Marie Cerinus uses a study into the value of clinical supervision to illustrate some of the resource issues involved in the conduct of action research.
The concepts of power and representation hold a particular significance for the nursing profession.
Throughout the UK, increasing responsibility is being placed on clinical nurses to play a leadership role within healthcare settings.
<p>THE AIM of this week's report is to provide an overview of the dissemination process.
<p>ONE OF the criticisms that has been consistently levelled against the policies initiated by this government is that they are simply repackaged versions of strategies developed previously by the Conservatives.
Sexual problems are more likely to originate from psychological or relationship difficulties rather than ‘mechanical failure’. Here Peter Gregory reveals the often closed world of psychosexual therapy.
The identification of problems and how they are dealt with is affected by the individual perspectives of all parties involved.
<p> THIS IS a national project, commissioned by the NHS Executive, to determine what data should be recorded to support the planning and delivery of health and social care within maternity and childairth, for both mothers and infants, across health and social care organisations.
<p>The creation and evaluation of a new role for an advanced nurse practitioner in cardiovascular medicine is being evaluated in a prospective randomised controlled trial – the study of nursing intervention in practice (SNIP).</p>
This literature review demonstrates that hospitalised patients may not be receiving adequate pain relief due to health professionals’ belief that optimum doses of analgesia may affect patients’ respiratory capability.
