Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
The award of a Florence Nightingale Scholarship enabled research which looked at the role and development of nurse practitioners to be undertaken in three A
Expanded roles for nurses have developed in the UK over the past 25 years and are now commonplace in most clinical settings.
Hearing impairment can hinder nurses’ and carers’ ability to provide high quality care.
Many patients spend their day, not in bed, but in a chair, yet little attention is paid to finding the right seating.
Gillian Arblaster discusses the process undertaken by the Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust to evaluate dynamic pressure-relieving/reduci
Tissue viability nurses often encounter dermatological conditions but they are not always easy to diagnose and treat
<p>It's almost 14 years since Baroness Cumberlege, in her review of community nursing services, first described the difficulties faced by community nurses caring for
<p>For most of us the telephone is an integral part of our lives that we will use for a variety of reasons and in many different situations.
The process by which clinical areas were prioritised for the formulation of national clinical guidelines, using a model devised by th
A discussion of nurses’ involvement in the prevention and detection of oral cancer.
<p>Nurse-led medical day case units are an innovative way of reducing the pressure on staff and beds during winter months.
Two sleep clinics run by health visitors were set up in Dundee to provide a brief, time-limited programme of advice and treatment for
This article describes a new model which aims to ensure that older people who are discharged from hospital are sufficiently confident, independent and self-caring.
The decision whether or not to attempt resuscitation of certain patients can be difficult and complex.
<p>INFANTS, CHILDREN and adolescents experience pain, and often describe procedures they undergo as the most distressing aspect of disease or hospitalisation. Pain that is not recognised can become established, severe and difficult to control (McQuay 1989).
The Northampton Community Healthcare NHS Trust is not unique in facing a challenging agenda of organisational development. Naturally, this is dominated by appropriate staff development and accurate workforce planning.
Human resource theory suggests the importance of education in economic development in a global economy.
<p>IN 1998 THE RCN launched its Research and Development (R&D) Co-ordinating Centre, the main focus of which was a website that allows nurses to access extensive R&D-related information on a range of topics (O Carroll and McMahon 1998).
