Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Clinical
<p>The UKCC Code of Professional Conduct (1992)requires that nurses ‘act always in a manner to promote and safeguard the interests and well-being ofpatients and clients’.
<p>Pain is one of the most feared consequences ofcancer.
<p>The communication of ideas is fundamental to the development of all professions.
<p>Until 1994, the intensive care unit (ICU) at Hull Royal Infirmary offered no facility for bereaved family and friends to seek information and comfort following the deat
<p>Although lack of documentation means that few departments are able to quantify their telephone workload, it is thought that in A&E departments, approximately 3
<p>Massage has been considered therapeutic for many thousands of years - indeed, there is evidence of the therapeutic use of massage in China more than 5,000 years ago.
<p>This research uses an immediate response questionnaire (IRQ) to measure the general diversional effectiveness of six new recreational and diversional groups in a 38-bed
<p>Following the NHS reforms, the RCN Gynaecology Nursing Forum expressed concern about changes in the provision of NHS gynaecology services, their impact on the delivery
<p>This article reports on a pilot study to evaluate the benefits of providing a telephone follow-up service for patients over 75 years discharged directly from A&
<p>The incidence of homosexuality in women has been reported to be from 2 to 12 per cent of the female population (Hall 1978, Olesker and Walsh 1984, Robertson 1992).
<p>As more and more material becomes available on the Web, many nurses and others are understandably confused by the variety of sites, their quality, and how they can eval
<p>This article presents the findings of a local initiative to develop practice standards for patient handling in a specialist orthopaedic hospital.
<p>When patients are told they have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) their first reaction is usually one of confusion followed by alarm when they have consulted a textbook.
<p>This article reports on a study exploring the process of implementing nationally developed standards for the nutritional care of older adults. In particular, the study focused on issues which enabled or hindered the effective implementation of the standards.
<p>Lupus has been known as a disease for over 2,000 years. Hippocrates first described lupus lesions and the name lupus’, Latin for wolf, was used to describe the appearance of red ulcers on the face.</p>
<p>Nurses have a professional responsibility under the UKCC Code of Professional Conduct (UKCC 1992), to offer patients the highest possible standard of care, care that is not compromised by infection.</p>
<p>This is the second part of a study, carried out over four years, which examined what happens in nursing practice in relation to assessing the clinical competence of nursing students during their Common Foundation Programme (CFP).
