Health clinics for children in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale helped to reduce the number of visits to A&E, urgent care and GP practices during the busy winter period.
Paediatric Nurse Practitioner Clinics (PNPC), run by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, ran from 31 October 2015 to 31 March 2016. During the period, nurse practitioners from the Rochdale borough Children’s Community Nursing Team saw 1,666 young people; providing assessment, treatment, advice and medication.
A new texting service to enhance the way young people can access health advice has been launched by Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s School Nursing Service.
Young people talking with a school nurse about new texting service With more and more children and young people using hand held mobile devices in their daily lives, the ChatHealth text service is an easy way for young people to confidentially ask for help about a range of issues, or make an appointment with a school nurse. They can also find out how to access other local services including emotional support or sexual health services. In pilot areas in the country such as Leicestershire already using ChatHealth, pupils have said they like using the messaging service because it is less embarrassing, quick and easy, anonymous and non-judgemental.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) are busy preparing for their busiest period in September, when a significant amount of nurses and midwives are due to revalidate.
51,000 nurses and midwives are due to gather their portfolio evidence and receive their confirmations.
Tens of thousands of nurses and midwives have successfully revalidated with the NMC since its launch on 1 April 2016, with 14,362 having gone through the process in April alone.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversational style. It has been shown to be effective, in addressing health behaviors such as diet, exercise, weight loss and chronic disease management. In Sweden, it is one of the approaches to disease prevention conversations with patients recommended in the National Guidelines for Disease Prevention. Research on the mechanisms underlying motivational interviewing is growing, but research on motivational interviewing and disease prevention has also been called for. 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 identify factors associated with longitudinal changes in health-related quality of life in community-dwelling individuals with venous or mixed-venous leg ulcers. 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.
Transformational leadership had no direct relationship to intent to stay and job satisfaction and had a small direct positive effect on organizational commitment. Transformational leadership has potential to slow attrition and retain nurses by creating a positive work environment that supports nurses. Any improvement in job satisfaction and organizational commitment would positively increase the change in probability for intent to stay. 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 study aimed to investigate the levels of abusive supervision, self-efficacy and work engagement and to explore the relationship between these three variables among Chinese clinical registered 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.
Under the previous system, applicants had to achieve the IELTS Academic Test Level 7 in reading, writing, speaking and listening in a single sitting. A Level 7 in all areas will still be required, but this can now be achieved over two sittings of the tests. Both tests must be within six months of each other and no single score must be below 6.5 in any of the areas across both tests.
With around 1% of the population being treated for epilepsy it is important for general practice nurses to know enough about the condition and the medications used to be able to support patients, as well as how to respond in an emergency. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
(1) To understand the implicit and explicit perceptions of accountability from the perspective of bedside nurses and their managers. (2) To identify the factors that facilitate accountability behaviors. 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 analyze the concept of transformational leadership in the nursing context. 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.
News article: The continuing lack of school nurses will deepen the existing crisis in child mental health. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
In the UK and many other Western jurisdictions, it is now mandatory for health professionals to report any finding of female genital mutilation (FGM) in girls under 18 to the authorities. This is considered by some to be too indiscriminate, and potentially provocative to some immigrant communities. A discussion in the Journal of Medical Ethics takes this a stage further (Arora K, Jacobs A. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2014-102375). The American authors suggest that differing degrees of … To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is preparing for its busiest period of the year, as 51,000 nurses and midwives get ready to revalidate in September. Read on to find out what you can do to help your staff plan ahead.
The aim of this study was to explore treatment and healthcare experiences of people living with ileostomies, so nurses can build on best practice while caring for these patients. 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.
In February 2015 I put forward a proposal to introduce a monthly review of all residents in care homes that receive residential funding (nursing funding entitles a resident to nursing care provided by the care home) residentially funded residents have access to the community nursing intervention team in the same way that an individual in their own home would have. However it is this population group who have historically received poor input from the health care framework that should support it.
A new role that will sit alongside existing nursing care support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care moved a step closer today as Health Education England (HEE) published the response to its recent consultation on the Nursing Associate role.
The consultation proved popular, attracting over 1,000 responses from individuals including patients, members of the public and a wide range of organisations including professional bodies, trade unions, health care and social care providers and commissioners of healthcare. The role will be given the title ‘Nursing Associate’
Having the right number of appropriately skilled staff is a huge organisational challenge and a critical determinant of the quality and efficiency of health care.
There is a growing gap between patient needs and the skills and knowledge of the workforce that cares for them, especially regarding the non medical workforce. The Nuffield Trust report, Reshaping the workforce to deliver the care patients need, commissioned by NHS Employers, gives guidance for reshaping workforce; identifies key enablers and obstacles to change; and provides recommendations for national and local bodies about key actions to support change.