Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
As care moves away from hospital settings, continual re-evaluation of community nursing and health care is essential for the wellbein
<p>IN 1998, the ENB commissioned a documentary analysis and literature review of critical care nurse education (Scholes et al 1999).</p>
Supervision in nursing is still in its early stages.
<p>THE GOVERNMENT'S education and training directives have highlighted the need for more shared learning between the health and social.
<p> THE RECENTLY formed Erectile Dysfunction Nurses Association (EDNA) encourages aware- I ness and debate about erectile dysfunction. Its aims are to:</p>
Psychiatric nurses are not as stressed in their work as most research seems to indicate.
Communication is a key skill of modern nursing practice, yet often it is an area in which nurses fail.
Depletion of the ozone layer is a factor in global climate change.
Nurses are keenly aware of the need for patients to be adequately hydrated.
The pain of migraine is notoriously difficult to manage.
<p>IN JANUARY 1998 the RCN launched its Research and Development (R&D) Co-ordinating Centre in Wales.
<p>In these times of information explosion, high technology, and health care reform, all health professions are challenged to re-examine their practice environments, revis
<p>Collaboration between a health trust and an education authority is helping children with asthma to lead full and active lives at school.
THE OBJECTIVES of the survey were to establish prevalence rates, collect data on the process of preventing and managing pressure sores, and to look at differences between nursing and residential homes in terms of care policy and practice.
<p>QUALITY HEALTH CARE is the key objective of the health service in Scotland, but how is this to be achieved? One way is to ensure that start nave good advice and that they work to guidelines which have evidence-based recommendations.</p>
The author determined, by means of a small questionnaire survey carried out at a district general hospital, what understanding nurses have of post-registration education and practice (PREP) and whether they were prepared to meet the requirements set out
<p>This article describes what happened in one region of England where 59 nurses who had put themselves forward were short-listed for appointment to 12 primary care groups.
<p>Nurses have a valuable role to play in screening for dementia and depression in older people but they must be confident, adequately trained and supported.
