Within the past decade in district nursing, the author has seen increasing complexity of care and workload, with associated high levels of stress and burnout. The QNI (2022) suggested this is a...
We begin with a story that will hopefully bear no relation to the professional experience of readers. A GP once told me of a call he received from a gentleman who requested a home visit ‘to have a...
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)....
The first Community Nursing Research Community of Practice for the UK was initiated as an editorial in this journal in February 2022 (Bowers and Evans, 2022). It was a nascent idea; a tentative...
‘Older people with multiple and complex health conditions, minimised and reframed their ill health with scant regard to the extent that their health problems impacted on their lives; health problems...
Pradhan et al (2022) examined whether the use of the receptor agonist glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, and sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT-2)...
First, recognise that palliative caring can be a double-edged sword, where one is:.
As we get older, we often accept that falls are unavoidable; however, this is not the case. Most people over 65 years do not fall each year. Falls are not an inevitable part of ageing; it is always...
ACDR, also known as toxidermia, are skin manifestations resulting from drug administration. ACDR are the most common adverse drug reactions reported in the literature, with the overall incidence in...
Scabies is one of the most common dermatological conditions and affects more than 200 million people at any given time. While scabies occurs worldwide, it is most common in hot, tropical countries and...
‘a chronic, progressive swelling of tissue with protein-rich fluid, which is consequential to the developmental (primary lymphoedema) or acquired (secondary lymphoedema) disruption of the lymphatic...
There is a gap in the current literature, which explores the experience of students undertaking the SPQDN. The aim of this study was to explore the feelings, thoughts, experiences and expectations of...
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