Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
As nursing research becomes more common, so does the issue of whether or not patients should be involved and, if so, to what extent.
Growing concern at the increase in eczema sufferers, has led the National Eczema Society to collaborate with nurses and skincare spe
<p>EPILEPSY CAUSES about 1,000 deaths each year in the UK (Nash and Brown 1996) and is the commonest chronic neurological disorder.
Nursing in a poverty-stricken war zone means working with poor facilities and coping with different attitudes.
Recent developments in genetics mean that this previously specialised subject is now essential knowledge for all nurses.
<p>RECENT POLICY changes have highlighted the importance of clinical supervision (CS) for nurses.
Assessment in nurse education concentrates too much on academic abilities and fails to measure the practical nursing abilities of st
The use of databases in health care is expanding.
<p> IN HER plenary address to the RCN International Nursing Research conference in Edinburgh last year, Marla Salmon, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Un
<p>Nursing theories, while claiming to present models of holistic nursing care, do not deal adequately with human spirituality.
<p>Mental health liaison nursing teams are developing across the UK with a diverse range of roles and functions.
Ian Govier suggests that patients will benefit if nurses adopt a systematic approach to assessing spiritual needs. However, it may be necessary to evaluate personal spirituality before applying this approach.
Aim
To find out the reasons why carers might decide that they could not continue caring for a relative with dementia at home.
Method
Most nurses base their practice on evidence produced by research. This article examines alternative ways of working and demolishes commonly held nursing myths in the process.
Newly qualified nurses often think they have been thrown in at the deep end. This article examines the reasons why, and looks at how preceptorship can help
