a model was developed to provide an innovative approach in working together as a “virtual placement” which meets the above requirements but also affords a wealth of additional opportunities to build that early partnership with the workforce of the future and afford them early exposure to critical learning.
Following on from the publication of Safe and Effective Staffing: the Real Picture in May 2017, the RCN launched a survey of nursing and midwifery staff in the UK. The survey asked people about their last shift or day worked in health or social care. Over 30,000 responses were received in just two weeks, providing insight into staff experiences and staffing levels across the UK.
Employers often tell us that the different routes into nursing can be confusing. It can be difficult to weigh up the different options and to map out a clear pathway for registered nurses. We have therefore created a new resource to help employers think through the different routes. This resource has been tested with employers to ensure it is as helpful as possible.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.