Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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Training in neglect prevention for healthcare professionals should incorporate understanding of who is at risk, what represents neglect, how signs might be
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Audit is a crucial component of improvements to the quality of patient care.
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NURSES HAVE long been the ‘invisible’ leaders in the health service; in the public mind, they provide care while other people lead an
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IF THE healthcare service is to remain fit for purpose and the government’s skills agenda is to be addressed, the healthcare workforc
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ANY ACCOUNT of the decision making process is incomplete unless it examines how people’s decisions are affected by their perceptions of risk.
IT IS inevitable that managers in the health and social care sectors have to make decisions; doing so is, after all, part of their jobs.
Leaders cannot lead without power (Bennis and Nanus 1985).
THE ASSUMPTION that leaders should be ‘superheroes’ was debunked several years ago in a survey on leadership qualities by Alimo-Metca
LEADERSHIP SKILLS have long been identified as key to the delivery of good health care.
TEAMS HAVE to develop over time, and simply using the term to describe groups of people does not make them teams.
THINK ABOUT a time when you volunteered, or nearly volunteered, to take the lead as part of a team initiative.
LEADERSHIP USED to be most often associated with solitary heroic figures, usually men, who were considered to be the inspirations beh
WE CAN CONCEPTUALISE the process of leadership as a cycle of stages: developing initial awareness of problems or opportunities, developing a vision for improvement through planning, taking action, and reviewing the results.
PUBLIC VALUE has been defined as ‘what the public values – what they are willing to make sacrifices of money and freedom to achieve’ (
PRACTITIONERS, PARTICULARLY nurses, face difficult encounters every day. Almost all encounters are ‘difficult’ in some way, and they can be challenging at both a personal and professional level.
GOOD MENTORS know when and how to use their own experience and skills to support the staff they are mentoring.
In the early 1980s, a study by Cameron and Parkes (1983) showed that more bereaved people often took solace from the quality of care received by their loved ones who had died in palliative care settings than did tho
People can play multiple roles in their lives that both relate to other people and imply certain things about what they do.
