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The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the district nurse in palliative care provision, with a particular focus on observational exploration of their role and practice in providing...
This programme comprises 30 minutes of leg muscle strengthening and balance retraining exercises that progress in difficulty and are performed at home at least three times per week, together with...
Since its inception, holistic social prescribing has influenced a paradigm shift from a pathogenic, medical model, towards a salutogenic model that embraces what makes people healthy rather than...
The community nursing service at the authors' trust had already been providing IV antibiotic therapy within the community, although this had been restricted to provision within patients' own homes....
The objectives of Jagannath et al's (2018) updated Cochrane systematic review was to evaluate the benefit and safety of vitamin D supplementation for reducing disease activity in people with MS.
Cardiomyopathy or cardiac damage resulting from chemotherapy, radiation and anti-cancer signalling inhibitors is a major consideration (Myatt, 2015). Increases in life expectancy following anti-cancer...
‘… many despair of the media's negativity, which has left the general population concerned and anxious about every aspect of their lives.’ .
Since the Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978, there has been a paradigm shift in thinking about health (World Health Organization (WHO), 2008). This has been evident in integrating health and social care...
Generally, the most common symptom of dermatitis, dermatologically speaking is itching, which might appear with or without lesions of the skin. Therefore, to evaluate pruritus, a thorough history and...
Importantly, it should be noted that nurse-led verification of expected death is not intended to replace GP verification, but enables nurses to extend the care of those patients who are on the...
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