Legal aspects of COVID-19 pandemic management for community nurses

In some respects they do, but in most respects they do not..

Social prescribing: combating loneliness is everyone's business

Compression therapy for treating post-thrombotic syndrome

The objectives of Azirar et al's (2019) review were to assess the effectiveness of treatments for PTS, including elastic compression stockings and mechanical compression devices, compared with no...

Managing heart failure

‘It is estimated that there are about 920 000 people living with heart failure in the UK, which exceeds the number with the four most common cancers combined and imposes a significant healthcare...

DNACPR: don't leave it until too late to talk

Recruiting older people from the Pakistani community in Community Ageing Research 75+

The Community Ageing Research 75+ Study (CARE75+) (Heaven et al, 2019) is a national, longitudinal cohort study, collecting health and social data, with a focus on frailty, independence and quality of...

Infection prevention and control challenges in Flemish homecare nursing: a pilot study

Some 711 patients were included by about 200 nurses during the data collection period. Most (82%) of the patients were recruited by homecare nurses working at a home healthcare agency, and only some...

Tavistock Neighbourhood Nursing Network: collaboration across settings

The purpose of the Tavistock NNN is to increase the voice of the nurses in the PCN, to enable them to articulate their value and, in doing so, to deliver the aims and objectives of the NHS Long Term...

Call handlers for community nursing referrals: importance of collaborative working

The first step in quality improvement work is to establish a team that shares a common vision for improvement and to define the roles of those within the improvement team (Swanson and Pearlman, 2017)....

Palliative care for chronic respiratory disease: integrated care in outpatient settings

Patients diagnosed with pulmonary-related cancers enter well-established care pathways (Lung Clinical Expert Group, 2017) to receive MDT support. Ultimately, and from clinical experience, as the...

Life is for living: the contribution of the arts and gardens

Fancourt and Finn (2019) conducted a scoping review for the WHO of the global evidence of the effects of the arts on health and wellbeing. Their definition of the arts included performing arts such...

Support for unpaid carers: the working carers’ passport

Many NHS staff, including nursing colleagues, are caring for friends or family outside of work, balancing the pressures of caring as well as working..