Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>This article describes some of the barriers to professional development and discusses how research and development (R&D) officers can overcome these and support
<p>Student nurses on a pre-registration diploma Project 2000 course were poorly motivated, skipped lecturers and presented substandard work.
<p>This article challenges the common practice of boosting the syringe driver as a means of controlling breakthrough pain.
<p>In the context of the National Primary Care Facilitation Programme, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has reviewed the membership of the Mental Health in Primary C
<p>This research study illustrates nurses’ concern about spiritual care and the author demonstrates why this issue needs to be researched more fully to prepare nurses to f
<p>This study of staff in an NHS trust tests two established models of occupational stress.
Nursing Standards recent Focus on Nutrition campaign raised some uncomfortable issues about nurses’ knowledge of wou
The prevention of pressure sores by frequent repositioning of patients is a widely accepted practice.
Unlike organ donation, which enjoys a worthy public profile, tissue transplantation remains relatively unheard of.
<p>In last week’s Nursing Standard (Callaghan 1998) we reported the findings of a study into the effectiveness of plastic aprons in preventing contamination of nurses’ uni
<p>This article is based on work into the sexual health needs of people with learning disabilities, carried out by a working group of the RCN Family Planning Forum.
<p>This study examined the hypothesis that the wearing of plastic aprons during direct patient contact would reduce significantly the number of bacteria carried on nurses’
<p>The author was appointed to create a ‘pre-admission clerking system’ in an orthopaedic department. The management objective was to reduce the numbers of patients whose surgery was cancelled.
<p>The grounded theory approach to research appears to be well suited to providing nurses with understanding of social behaviours so that they can enhance patient care.
<p>Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common lethal genetic disorder affecting Caucasian populations, particularly those of northern European origin. It is a hereditary disease affecting cells of the exocrine glands.
<p>The true nature of psychiatric nursing and what it ought to be is hotly debated. To date, there have been conflicting ideas about what nurses actually do and what they ought to do.
<p>In January 1998 a circular (1) was sent to chief executives of NHS trusts and health authorities, setting out plans for a national email system within the NHS to “ensure that all Executive Directors of NHS organisations (and their IT Directors) are in a position to send and receive elect
<p>On January 1 1997, 178 nurses at the Centre for the Health of Older People in Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, agreed on a New Year’s resolution with a difference.
