Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>An assessment tool was developed to measure patient dependency and staff skill mix in a child psychiatry inpatient unit.
<p>Nurses are increasingly incorporating into their skills areas of care traditionally undertaken by medical colleagues.
<p>This article reports the findings of a comparative descriptive study of Project 2000 student nurses and student nurses following the apprenticeship model of training (c
<p>Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common cause of severe disability in young adults in the UK.
<p>Continuing Education articles are run in conjunction with the Royal College of Nursing Institute to help you earn Continuing Education Points (CEPs).
<p>Student attrition (dropping out) wastes time and resources which schools of nursing can ill afford.
<p>This article presents the findings from the evaluation of nurse prescribing, undertaken in eight demonstration sites since October 1994.
<p>When discussing the potential future use of the NHSNet for educational purposes, the answers seem to vary with who you talk to, and there are certainly conflicting answ
<p>This article describes a small-scale qualitative study of health visitors’ experiences of skill mix.
<p>This article explores the bedtime rituals espoused by a sample of elderly residents in a nursing home and the extent to which care assistants meet individual needs.
<p>The internet is a giant computer network linking computers all over the world, for an introduction with a health perspective see McKenzie (1996) or Anthony (1996a).
<p>This survey compares the use of computer networks in NHS trusts and academic departments. The two types of organisation have different needs and patterns of use.
<p>This article describes a recent evaluation of the work of nurse practitioners across a range of A&E departments and minor treatment centres in west London. Questionnaires, face-to-face interviews and focus groups were used to collect the data.
<p>In many cases, postnatal depression is not identified or treated early enough, often as a result of poor co-ordination between the health professionals involved.
<p>In this article the social and psychological aspects of rumours are considered. The authors place rumours in a wider social context using definitions of different types of rumour before focusing on the nature of rumours in the healthcare environment.
<p>It is dangerous to predict the future but I feel safe in stating that the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) will become vital tools in developing innovative nursing and midwifery practice through research.
<p>This article describes a survey which established a link between qualified nursing staff’s attitudes towards Project 2000 (P2000) courses and the nature of their knowledge base of the local course.
<p>This study investigated whether relevant parameters of wound assessment are documented more frequently if a wound assessment chart is used. Wound assessment documents from three clinical areas were analysed. Content analysis was carried out on all of the wound assessment documents.
