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Summary This article shows the results of an assessment of an innovative approach to training practice nurses in Tower Hamlets, East London. It explains why the programme, called Open Doors, [...]

Many patients remain at high risk for diabetes complications because of poor glycemic control. (1-4) Case management, defined as 'the assignment of authority to a professional (the case manager) who [...]

Summary Best practice benchmarking is recognised as a valuable tool in the development of practice, leading to high-quality care. However, the implementation of such initiatives is hot always straightforward. Often [...]

Summary Emergency pre-hospital treatment of haemorrhage includes immediate fluid replacement therapy to restore circulating blood volume, reverse hypotension to perfuse vital organs and reduce the risk of death (National Institute [...]

Summary Enabling triage nurses to request X-rays has a number of benefits for patients and staff. This article describes the development of a protocol and in-house training programme that allows [...]

As more nurses become qualified in specialist areas, demand is growing for expert nurses to give evidence in clinical negligence and injury cases. Solicitors who would once have only used [...]

MUCH HAS been done over the past decade to try to improve access to good end of life care for older people. National strategies have sought to place a stronger [...]

Experienced nurses often act as harm absorbers, preventing patient safety incidents through a combination of expertise, experience and training. They need foresight or mental preparedness to identify, respond to and [...]

Mandatory training needs to be carried out in work time, according to nurses voting at RCN congress. Ninety eight per cent voted in support of a resolution put forward by [...]

Financial difficulties are cutting deep in NHS theatres and threatening patient safety, nurses have warned. NHS funding was a key theme for the hundreds of members of the Association for [...]

TRAINING IN end of life care should be compulsory for all health and social care staff--before and after qualifying--a partnership of influential palliative care campaigners has said. The National Council [...]

It would seem that healthcare assistants (HCAs) are the backbone of the NHS. I recently sat in a hospital day ward for ten hours waiting for a knee arthroscopy. No [...]

At NHS City and Hackney community health services, nurses are using newly acquired teamwork skills to set up patient support groups, adopt consultative approaches to change and work more effectively [...]

SUMMARY The Gretta Foundation is determined to help increase the global 'nurseforce' by supporting aspiring nurses with scholarships. Keywords Gretta Foundation * Gretta Styles * Nursing scholarships * Uganda * [...]

The overhaul of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's pre-registration nursing education standards has finally been unveiled. Although its impact will not be felt until after the new standards come into [...]

An NHS acute trust hopes to reduce hospital admissions among palliative care patients with Parkinson's disease by training hospice nurses about the condition. Parkinson's disease nurse specialist Lynnette Bayes has [...]

A training programme for practice nurses to help patients with type 2 diabetes initiate insulin therapy has produced positive outcomes. Nurses from 55 practices in the UK received training on [...]

Nurses have called for mandatory training on how to prevent venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) after research found they are the cause of death for more than 1,000 people aged under 40 [...]

Ah NHS trust is to review the training needs of its 5,000 nurses following concerns about medication errors and the standard of basic care. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust [...]

The Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery should consider whether nurses' shifts are too long and damage their health and wellbeing, it has been told. The [...]

Mental health services must increase the frequency of one-to-one sessions between nurses and newly admitted patients, says an NHS watchdog. The Healthcare Commission has made personalised care one of four [...]

A tong-awaited shake-up of nursing careers is expected to be announced by England's chief nursing officer Dame Chris Beasley this week. The Department of Health has proposed an overhaul of [...]

Services provision is patchy, as a recent NHS survey of primary care trusts has shown. Spending per head of population on hospice and specialist palliative care services can vary between [...]

If you believe that undergoing surgery involves a long day out of one's life, you would be wrong. For at the Princess Grace Hospital in central London a new suite [...]

A guide has been launched to help nurses use their skills to work with humanitarian organisations overseas. Published jointly by the RCN, the Royal College of Midwives, Medecins Sans Frontieres [...]

Are current theme of this column is the importance of joint, or at least closer working between health and social care. So the recent publication of guidance for the support [...]

The three-day NHS advanced communication training programme can significantly improve the performance of cancer nurses, according to a study of 172 nurses. Researchers at the Royal Free Hospital, London, received [...]

A HEADACHE nurse specialist is being trained in a bid to reduce the workload of overstretched neurologists. She will diagnose the cause of headaches as part of her role, which [...]