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Joanna Lavery

Senior Lecturer, Adult Nursing, Programme Lead, Specialist Community Practitioner, District Nursing, LJMU

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Self-management of long-term conditions: a district nursing perspective of patient engagement

According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a long-term condition is one that lasts for over one year and significantly impacts a person's life (NICE, 2016a). Long-term...

Self-neglect as a significant public health issue: exploring the responsibility of the SPCDN

There is limited data regarding the prevalence of self-neglect within the UK, coupled with multiple ambiguous definitions of the term (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2020)....

The specialist community practitioner district nurse's role in optimising COPD

COPD is determined as a health care priority and the SCPDN is well-placed to contribute to the diagnosis, management and optimisation of the disease. Globally, COPD is a leading cause of...

Pre-registration nursing students' perceptions of a district nursing career: a qualitative descriptive study

The objectives of the study were to understand the perceived challenges and barriers that pre-registration BSc (Hons) nursing students faced to moving into a career in district nursing. The research...

Navigating cultural competence in district nursing

The UK is evolving in its cultural diversity, and although the terms ‘culture’ and ‘religion’ are closely linked, what they stand for individually, differs. Culture is the body of knowledge in...

Evaluating the use of reflective cafés in Specialist Community Practitioner and Specialist Community Public Health Nurse programmes

Strategies, such as reflective practice and compassionate leadership, are of great importance to positively change behaviour and are regarded as social, moral and economic priorities (Bailey, 2021)....

First year pre-registration nursing student perceptions of community nursing roles: a thematic analysis

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), in its standards for the pre-registration nursing, identified that it is essential to equip student nurses with the skills required to work across both...

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