To identify the conditions needed to implement nurse practitioners in long‐term care in Québec, Canada.. 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 whether and to what extent emotion reactions of nursing students are affected by emotional features inherent in nursing care situations, focusing on gender and aggression.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Sue West, Senior Nursing Education Adviser, talks about the new roles set out in the Standards for student supervision and assessment, and their impact in education and training
To explore compassion from the perceptions of individuals with personal experience of nursing care.. 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.
Sue West, Senior Nursing Education Adviser, talks about the respective roles of nursing associates and nurses.
It’s just over a month since we opened our register to nursing associates in England and I’m aware that there might still be some confusion about the role and how it differs to that of the registered nurse.
Councils have a major role in ensuring they get the help they need, whether it is through the services they commission or deliver. Health visitors, family nurse partnerships, early years, children’s centres, youth services and the voluntary sector all have a key role to play.
Collaboration with clinical commissioning groups to provide dedicated midwifery support and post-pregnancy contraception is also important.
The Local Government Association (LGA) and Public Health England (PHE) have developed a framework setting out how different agencies can contribute.
Recent efforts to reduce patient infection rates emphasise the importance of safety culture. However, little evidence exists linking measures of safety culture and infection rates, in part because of the difficulty of collecting both safety culture and infection data from a large number of nursing homes.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The Government must invest in the specialist nurses that help babies, children and young families or risk turning back the clock on children’s health in England, the RCN says.
This collaborative project aimed to understand and enhance the knowledge, confidence and capability of community nurses to manage frailty in a community setting. A person-centred coaching and educational programme was co-developed with community nurse participants to strengthen their leadership role in managing frailty within interprofessional teams.
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this article discusses the benefits for nurse leaders to explore a new approach known as quantum leadership. This is a relationship-focused and value-based leadership style in which leaders understand that healthcare organisations have been in a state of flux and recognise how to respond constructively to change in the future. Quantum leadership enables nurse leaders to create and maintain synergistic team working, whereby the team works together towards the common goal of delivering optimal person-centred care. The author suggests that quantum leadership is an engaging and realistic approach to adopt, with benefits of all staff delivering healthcare services and ultimately for patients. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Discusses the benefits of creating a career plan. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Advice for non-specialist nurses on adapting practice for people with a learning disability and autistic people
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Evidence-based practice is vital to nursing, and health and social care, but research suggests it is less widespread than it should be. One reason may be that front-line practitioners do not always have the support, time and knowledge to search for and review evidence.
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To examine the use of time by advanced practice nurses and time use differences according to type of healthcare organization, work experience and supervisor.. 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.
‘Who is a nurse?’ and ‘What is nursing?’ seem to be simple questions yet the answers are strangely elusive. This book explores the variations in structure and organization of the nursing workforce across the different countries of Europe. This diversity, and the reasons for it, are of more than academic interest. The work of nurses has always had a critical impact on patient outcomes. As health systems shift radically in response to rising demand, the role of nurses becomes even more important.
(1) To review the literature on the use of technology to provide emotional and social support to nurses; (2) to identify and evaluate gaps in the research; (3) to assess whether a systematic review would be valuable and (4) to make recommendations for future research.