Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
<p>COLLABORATION WITHIN and between disciplines has long been linked with quality and clinically effective health services.
<p>Changing attitudes to healthcare provision look set to prompt a move away from treating patients in large general hospitals.
Background This article review Os the available literature to find a definition of the primary function of the mental health nurse.
<p>THE TREATY for Europe (popularly known as the Amsterdam Treaty) was signed in Amsterdam in 1997 and ratified by the UK in 1999.
Aim This study set out to explore nurses’ current contribution to medication education and the clinical contextual factors that influence curre
This article describes a joint initiative between health professionals and men who had had testicular cancer to set up a self-help g
<p>THE LAUNCH of Full Stop, the latest antiphysical abuse campaign by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), aimed at recognising and redu
Aim To determine the amount of information patients received on post-operative nausea and vomiting and whether this could be improved.
Despite many improvements in practice, pressure ulcers continue to be a source of concern to nurses and distress to patients.
The reality of wound management in clinical practice leaves a lot to be desired in relation to dressing selection and use.
The correct dressing selection is of vital importance in producing as rapid a healing response as possible.
<p>THE ONGOING campaign to recruit nurses, midwives and health visitors whose registration has lapsed and to increase the numbers of those entering practice to counteract
Aim This study aims to answer the question: what are the opinions of nurse prescribing students about infrastructures required to support nurse prescribing?
Background This article looks at different models of integrated nursing and more traditional models of community nursing in primary care, as well as examining models of change for implementing integrated nursing.
<p>IN FEBRUARY 1999, secretary of state for Wales Alan Michael announced that NHS Direct, a confidential, nurse-led service providing 24-hour health information and advice would become available to the people of Wales.
Background Shirley Learthart examines the potential adverse effects to health of working on rotating shifts.
Implementing changes In a hospital setting requires a structured approach to change management. This article describes the process of a project undertaken to improve record keeping in a children’s hospital.
The Department of Health, England, issued new guidance on continence services earlier this year. Sue Thomas examines the guidelines with a view to the future of continence care.
