To explore how adult, child, mental health nursing and midwifery students describe their ‘values journey’ after completing their second year following exposure to the clinical practice environment. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
To explore the literature regarding how nursing narratives have been used to enhance reflective practice.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To identify the prevalence of work‐related musculoskeletal disorders, levels of chronic occupational fatigue and how they vary with individual and work organization factors.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To explore the direct and indirect effect of the personality meta‐traits ‘Stability’ and ‘Plasticity’ on moral reasoning among nurse practitioners and physician assistants.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Our guide to nursing associates, a new regulated role which bridges the gap between health and care assistants and registered nurses is now live.
With the first cohort of qualified nursing associates set to join the registered workforce, our interactive guide for employers has been produced to provide advice and support for those exploring the potential of this new role within their organisations.
To examine public health nurses’ education, training and professional support needs in perinatal mental health.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Quarterly and annual datasets and commentary for local authority health visits to pregnant women, children and their families during pregnancy and early childhood.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (SHFT) Health Visiting Service has launched ChatHealth 0-5, a text messaging service to support parents, carers and families of under 5’s in Hampshire. The aim is to improve access to health information and support for families caring for babies and young children.
Policies are needed for cultivating a compassionate care culture and for fostering students’ compassion, but no guidelines exist for nursing institutions. Targeting the affective learning domain, facilitating reflection and integrating compassionate care indicators in clinical learning experiences can be useful. Therefore, nursing institutions can use these findings to integrate and measure compassionate care in clinical and educational curricula to foster students’ compassion.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
To examine the effectiveness of a scheduled 30‐minute nap and its interaction with individual factors on sleepiness and cognition during an 8‐hour night shift.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
To estimate the prevalence and co‐occurrence of health‐related behaviours among nurses in Scotland relative to other healthcare workers and those in non‐healthcare occupations.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
We'd like to hear your suggestions for new book alert topics. Simply reply to this email with 'Book Alert Topic' and your suggestions. You can also view and sign-up to our current new book alerts here: http://library.sssft.nhs.uk/librarykeepuptodate
The RCN is campaigning for nurse staffing for safe and effective care to be enshrined in law across all four countries of the UK.
Following a successful campaign which began in 2006, safe staffing legislation covering NHS adult acute settings in Wales was introduced in 2016.
The RCN is continuing to campaign to ensure this delivers improvements for nursing teams and their patients and for the law to be extended to other areas of nursing.
A unique team which is starting to transform care for elderly people in Shropshire stars in a new national video by NHS England which will be showcased across the country.
The frailty intervention team, known as FIT, was originally started as an idea by Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), who buy local health services, and SaTH, to help local elderly people avoid being admitted onto a hospital ward where they risk lengthier stays and recovery periods.
To identify diabetes specific patient safety domains that need to be addressed to improve home care of older people; to assess research from primary studies to review evidence on patient safety in home care services for older people with diabetes.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
When the Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust recognised a gap in its nursing workforce, it set about finding a solution by upskilling its workforce. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To identify, appraise and describe the characteristics and measurement properties of instruments assessing nurses’ attitudes towards the importance of involving families in their clinical practice. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Health Education England (HEE) has launched a new campaign to bring more nurses back into the NHS Workforce.
Targeted at nurses considering a return to practice, the 'We are Returning Nurses' campaign follows on from the We are the NHS recruitment drive. It seeks to remind nurses why they fell in love with their profession and support them on their journey back to the NHS with financial help, information on where to find courses, and tips on applications and interviews.
Supportive observations is the practice of closely monitoring patients who are acutely unwell in order to keep them safe.
There are no formal guidelines for nursing staff on what to observe during observations.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Aims
to develop a theory describing the processes and actions involved with school nurse case management for school‐aged children with chronic conditions in the K12 system.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
The RCN has responded to the Government’s updated strategy on reducing childhood obesity, calling for ministers to increase the number of school nurses and health visitors.
This article explores the concept of resilience and suggests ways in which resilience can be developed by individuals and in collaboration with others, resulting in resilient healthcare teams and organisations capable of supporting individuals effectively. It aims to assist healthcare professionals to develop their resilience, while also improving their understanding of the complex factors that can affect their coping capacity, as well as how community influences the resilience of everyone. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
In this article the author updates district nurses on the amendments to police powers under the Mental Health Act 1983 introduced by the Policing and Crime Act 2017, part 4 chapter 4 designed to better manage those people experiencing a mental health crisis.
The recent UK Government paper ‘Five year forward view’ describes the need to move much patient management from secondary to primary care, and this will require a significant increase in the numbers of General Practice Nurses (GPNs). Until recently, there has been no clear recruitment strategy to address this. There have however been a number of proposed solutions to address the impending GPN recruitment crisis and to increase the numbers of new GPNs in post. General Practitioners (GPs) working in the Advanced Training Practice Scheme (ATPS) have been commissioned by Health Education England to provide placements for student nurses. This paper reports upon the findings of a study evaluating the South Yorkshire ATPS network in relation to nursing students’ perceptions of general practice as a placement and a potential career option post-graduation.
Transforming Care is making mixed progress in supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and complex needs, move to more appropriate specialist accommodations closer to home. Community support staff often spend greatest amounts of time with service‐users, yet are some of the least heard voices about why placements succeed and fail to varying extents.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The government’s response to ‘The nursing workforce’ report sets out how the government is working with its arm’s length bodies to make sure the NHS continues to have the nursing workforce it needs, for patient and public benefit.
Open access. While there is strong evidence that fall prevention interventions can prevent falls in people aged 65 and over, translating evidence into routine practice is challenging. Research regarding how allied health professionals (AHPs) respond to this challenge is limited. As part of the Integrated Solutions for Sustainable Fall Prevention (iSOLVE) project, this study aimed to explore how AHPs were making fall prevention practice routine in primary care and the factors that influenced their fall prevention practice.
Open access. The aim of the study was to explore the thematic content of older persons’ expressed worries in home care visits, and how nursing staff respond to different thematic contents.
Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Vol. 38, Iss. 6, (2017): 423-432.
Background: The suicide rate in older people is high. Gatekeeper training is recommended for at-risk populations in the detection and management of suicidal residents in nursing homes. Aims: This study focuses on how caregivers in nursing homes consider suicide in older people from a social perspective, and to what extent these social representations are an obstacle to the prevention of suicide. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
To provide a synthesis of the evidence of health-promoting leadership related to nursing by exploring definitions, core attributes and critical conditions.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
NHS Employers has developed a briefing for NHS HR professionals outlining the progress that has been made to address the ten key issues impacting the supply of nurses to the health service.
Macmillan Cancer Support’s census shows:
The number of new cases per specialist cancer nurse is dramatically different across the country;
A greater proportion of specialist cancer nurses being paid in lower pay bands than in 2014;
Higher vacancy rates in specialist cancer nurse and cancer support worker roles than the UK average for health and social work
The proportion of specialist cancer nurses aged over 50 has increased;
Although optimal clinical supervision has long been thought to include a supportive, pastoral or restorative element (Kadushin, 1992), it has tended to be marginalised by the more business‐like components of ‘normative’ and especially ‘formative’ supervision (the managerial and development elements).. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Health care staff involved in adult safeguarding will have three years to meet new professional standards as outlined in Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff.
This week we’ve begun introducing a new approach to resolving complaints about nurses and midwives.
Under the new arrangements, where nurses and midwives can show that, despite something going wrong, they have learnt from what happened and are safe to continue working, we may not seek to restrict their practice. To develop a culture of openness and honesty we will provide tailored advice and support to employers, nurses and midwives to enable professionals to learn from their mistakes.
Psychological first aid (PFA) is an intervention strategy to support people in severe distress following crisis events. These traumatic events might include natural disasters, accidents, violent crimes or trauma experienced in nursing work, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Nurse managers should consider how floating shifts are administered so that nurses feel supported when working on a different ward or unit. Nurse managers can greatly influence nurses’ ability to manage floating shifts. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Findings Several barriers and facilitators to the use of digital technology were identified, including around infrastructure, time, skills, training, support, leadership, familiarity and confidence. The use of digital technology may enhance care consistency and increase patient autonomy, but it may also erode nurse-patient relationships.
Conclusion Digital technology can enhance patient care but organisational barriers, notably in relation to digital literacy training, need to be addressed for nurses to fully adopt it.
To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
To understand how small group teaching sessions can assist participants to learn new knowledge and skills
To learn how to plan a small group teaching session by setting aims and learning outcomes
To appreciate the importance of assessing participants’ learning and addressing gaps in their understanding throughout the delivery of small group teaching sessions
To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has introduced an all-encompassing specialist practice qualification (SPQ) aimed at nurses working in any setting in the community, with the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) planning to build on this by producing a set of standards for nine different fields. Here is what is happening and what it means for nurses, employers and universities. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.