To explore community nurses’ decision-making processes around the prescribing of anticipatory medications for people who are dying. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Parents of children in need of treatment for minor illnesses can now book an appointment directly with a dedicated Paediatric Nurse Practitioner.
The role is part of Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Children’s Acute and Ongoing Needs Service (CAONS) which is provided by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. It was newly established in September 2016.
The service aims to provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and an appropriate treatment plan, and to reduce pressure on GPs, urgent care and hospital services.
The Doncaster Health Visitors Facebook page was launched nearly 2 years ago and has gone from strength to strength. Health visitors, nursery nurses and a volunteer keep the pages up-to-date with health information, local updates on groups and activities, top tips from parents and ideas for encouraging play and development.
The newly launched private messaging service is manned Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm – meaning parents can ask a question and get a response quickly and easily. Parents have said that social media is a great way for them to interact with the service and share their parenting experiences.
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Background: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming an impetus for quality health care delivery by nurses. The use of ICTs by nurses can impact their practice, modifying the ways in which they plan, provide, document, and review clinical care.
This review aims to determine the effect of adult Early Warning Systems education on nurses’ knowledge, confidence and clinical performance. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The registered nurse apprenticeship standard is now available for delivery following the approval of the End Point Assessment plan (EPA).
Setting out the common core skills and knowledge required for all nursing students, the nurse apprenticeship standard incorporates the options to study specialisms in adult nursing, children’s nursing, mental health and learning disabilities.
Whether this reported decline in uptake is real, and fewer children are being immunised or whether this is a reflection of data quality issues is unclear. Either way, it serves as a reminder that we can never take high immunisation rates for granted.
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Launched on International Nurses Day, Enabling professionalism in nursing and midwifery practice is a guide aimed at all nurses and midwives and sets out what ‘professionalism’ can look like in everyday practice.
Calling for the rest of the UK to follow the example of Wales and enshrine safe staffing in law, the RCN reports that a dangerous set of pressures is putting patient safety at risk.
To gain insight into the quantity and quality of spiritual care provided by nurses in curative cancer care, from the perspectives of both patients and nurses. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
A new guide sets out what professionalism in nursing and midwifery practice should look like and identifies key principles for employers to consider when providing supportive practice environments.
To investigate transition in newly qualified nurses through an exploration of their stressors and stress experiences during their first 12 months post-qualifying. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
To examine how the Conservation of Resources theory explains burnout in the nursing profession. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This paper offers a first-person account of experiencing stigma as a nurse with a mental illness.
This paper incorporates the existing literature to offer a broader cultural perspective on the experiences of a nurse with a mental illness. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Patient- and family-centred care improve patient satisfaction, healthcare outcomes and healthcare delivery. But how would the addition of another layer, community-centred care, affect this model?
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The article discusses the reasons why the author claims that it is important to promote intermittent self-catheterisation (ISC) as of 2017, and it mentions the history of ISC, the costs associated with intermittent catheters, and concerns about the ability of patients to manage ISC. According to the article, ISC is the process by which a patient passes a lubricated tube down his or her urethra in order to empty urine out of the bladder.
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But the study only compared two products, and also only looked at one organism, which doesn't cause infection in humans.
Examining the effectiveness of a wider range of products against other types of infectious organisms, such as viruses and fungi, as well as other strains of bacteria, would be required before we can safely say whether cold water is just as effective as hot.
This study aims to explore nurse assistants’ and registered nurses’ responses to older persons’ expressions of emotional needs during home care visits. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
To investigate the associations between the quality of the physical environment and the psychological and social well-being of older people living in residential care facilities. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This quality standard covers care for adults (aged 18 and over) who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition in hospital or in the community. It includes identifying people at risk of malnutrition and providing nutrition support, including dietary changes and artificial nutrition support given through feeding tubes (enteral nutrition) or directly into a vein (parenteral nutrition). It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
As a nurse or midwife, your first instinct is often to go to the aid of others in need. However, it is important that if you find yourself in an unclear situation you follow official government guidance.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
Following recent publicity relating to fitness to practise cases regarding resuscitation we felt it was important to clarify the current position. Clear new guidance was developed jointly in 2016 by the Resuscitation Council, BMA and RCN called ‘Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation’. The NMC is supportive of this guidance.
New figures that we’ve published today show an increase in the number of nurses and midwives leaving our register while at the same time, numbers joining have slowed down. This has resulted in an overall reduction in the numbers of nurses and midwives registered to work in the UK.
To suggest an alternative approach to improving recognition of horizontal violence using enactor types identified in a study exploring nurses’ perceptions of horizontal violence...Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
To examine the relative effects of interpersonal conflict and workload on job outcomes (turnover intentions, burnout, injuries) and examine if resilience moderates the indirect effects of conflict and workload on job outcomes via job-related negative affect. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text.
Health Education England (HEE) has now published a range of case studies on the pilot nursing associate role programme, featuring the new trainees.
There are 2,000 nurse associates currently in training at 35 pilot sites across England. The new role is intended to become part of a multi-disciplinary workforce and nurse associates will work under the direction of fully qualified, registered nurses to complement their role.
Interim guidance on pay for nurse apprentices has been issued for employers that are running courses from September 2017.
The NHS Staff Council is currently in discussions regarding what the appropriate pay rates may be for individuals undertaking a nurse apprenticeship (and other higher and degree related apprenticeships). However, these discussions are unlikely to be completed in time for the small number of nurse apprenticeship training courses running from September 2017.
Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust have created and implemented a Progression course solely for Nurses and Midwives who want to move from Band 5 – 6 and Band 6 – 7.
The course was devised and is facilitated by the Lead Nurse for Nurse and Midwife Retention and Progression, who is tasked with supporting and developing the nursing and midwifery workforce.
Since the first course in April 2016, we have had about 100 nurses and midwives successfully complete these courses.
The feedback has been incredibly positive and we have had many promotions from this cohort.
The courses are non-clinical, purely managerial and give a flavour of the next level up.
Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust have a closed Facebook group dedicated to the nursing and midwifery staff.
This was set up by the Lead Nurse for Nurse and Midwifery Retention after realising that we are all working in small pockets in the organisation and we don’t always have a platform to share ideas and support our wider team.
It has effortlessly reached over 300 members of the team by word of mouth and has had loads of engagement from all departments.
It is an incredibly positive and supportive area where all members are able to network with each other and learn about what is going on in the Trust.
Skills for Health, Health Education England and Skills for Care have announced a new Framework to support person-centred approaches for the health and social care workforce.
It is estimated that in many settings nurses provide 80 per cent of patient care and they are often the clinicians leading the way in utilising new technology, and creating innovative ways of improving care using new digital tools.
NHS Digital exists to improve health and social care in England by making better use of technology, data and information.
This article, part two, explores the wider involvement of individuals, organisations and nurse education in preventing care erosion, with a particular focus on reflection; mastery of nursing skills and care; supporting nursing values; and addressing denial and trivialisation of, and justifications for, substandard care. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Advanced Clinical Practitioners have been developed to address current and future gaps in the medical workforce. Insight into problems associated with Advanced Clinical Practitioner transition may help present and future trainees adapt to their changing and demanding health environment. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Editorial. Alongside concern about avoidable mortality, one of the key findings of the public enquiry into failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust,1 which ran Stafford Hospital in England, was the lack of compassion in care delivery. Sir Robert Francis, who led the enquiry, laid the blame for the compassion deficit at the door nursing and support staff. He recommended, among other things, that people should work as care assistants prior to nurse training and that values-based recruitment should be used to ensure that the ‘right’ people are recruited to be nurses. However, there has been little evidence to support these propositions. For example Snowden et al2 found that nursing students who had previous care jobs scored no higher for emotional intelligence than those without prior experience. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Despite concerns about the degree of compassion in contemporary healthcare, there is a dearth of evidence for health service managers about how to promote compassionate healthcare. This paper reports on the implementation of the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) intervention by four hospital ward nursing teams. CLECC is a workplace educational intervention focused on developing sustainable leadership and work-team practices designed to support team relational capacity and compassionate care delivery. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
To explicate the outcomes of home support interventions for older people with dementia and/or their carers to inform clinical practice, policy and research. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To examine the relationship between baseline emotional intelligence and prior caring experience with completion of pre-registration nurse and midwifery education. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To determine which aspects of primary nurse-patient telephone communication are viewed positively or negatively in terms of meeting the older persons’ needs. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. This study aims to capture first-hand information from nursing home staff's own understanding regarding what they think and have experienced about prevention of physical abuse of nursing home residents and what measures they consider useful to implement in their daily work.
Journal of Nursing Scholarship; Indianapolis49.5 (Sep 2017): 557-563.
The purpose of this article is to fill the need for an updated concept analysis of compassion fatigue. This review used Rodgers' Evolutionary Model to direct the analysis of 25 papers published between 2005 and 2015. This review focused strictly on healthcare providers in the formal healthcare setting. The authors provided an analysis of the evolution of compassion fatigue and identified surrogate terms, attributes and defining characteristics, and antecedents and consequences of the term, true to Rodgers' Evolutionary Model. Related terms are also discussed and a brief case model is provided. A better understanding of compassion fatigue will allow researchers and clinicians to identify its causes, prevention, and treatment. This could impact the rate at which healthcare providers leave clinical practice and their ability to compassionately engage with patients. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.