COVID-19 and emergency planning

The outbreak of contagious disease in such a globally connected world requires governments, public health and healthcare systems to work together to facilitate surveillance, early detection, isolation...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the community

Urinary catheters used appropriately can enable people with urinary incontinence to remain dry when other methods have failed. They can enable people who are dying to remain at home. They can help...

Malnutrition in community-dwelling older people: lessons learnt using a new procedure

The results after training at T1 showed high levels of non-completion of the training and trained staff members' vulnerability to attrition. Community-based nurses felt they had some knowledge to help...

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)....