Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>The study described here explored the concept of the named nurse from the perspective of the trained nurse working on the wards, by means of a questionnaire.</p><
<p>Acute admissions of older people from residential and nursing homes are often seen as inappropiate by both residential and hospital nursing staff.
Eight years on from the introduction of annual health checks for older people in primary care, the authors describe how this initiati
This article explores the role of research and audit in the pursuit of effective health services, the differences between the audit a
The nurse-patient relationship can be seen as central to any form of nursing care.
<p>OLDER PEOPLE have frequently received care thatneither meets their individual needs nor reflectstheir choices (McCormack and Ford 1999).
The health care needs of a child are very different to those of an adult but when it comes to paediatric care in the accident and eme
In this article, the author examines how advances in day case surgery have changed ophthalmic surgical units and the need for patient
<p> THIS PILOT study was conducted to address the shortage of research into complementary therapies and does so by showing the differing impacts of aromatherapy, reflexolo
Up to 40,000 young people in the UK may be caring for a sick or elderly relative but they may not be getting the support they deserve
Nursing has no common language to describe precisely what nurses do, for what sort of problems or patient conditions, and with what r
<p>THE REMIT of the NRIS is to provide a focus for both research and development (R&D) into direct patient care by all direct care staff and in all healthcare sett
Von Willebrand disorder (VWD) is a disorder of blood coagulation. It has similarities with haemophilia but with some important differences which are described in this article. Ideally, treatment should be in specialist centres.
Nurses are uniquely placed to provide effective health education with the aim of promoting attitude and behavioural change.
<p>Therapeutic touch (TT) has only fairly recently been introduced into Britain by Jean Sayre-Adams, who trained with Dr Dolores Krieger, the American nurse who devised this technique.
The incorporation of information management and technology into healthcare environments has long been advocated, but resistance from clinicians and perceived financial constraints have laboured its successful implementation in many trusts.
The fundamental role of nurse specialists is to improve and maintain the quality of patient care across the organisation. Heather Newton looks at the specialist nursing role in the light of the clinical governance arrangements.
