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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.