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..

Donepezil for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

The objectives of Birks and Harvey's updated Cochrane systematic review were to determine the clinical efficacy and safety of donepezil in people with mild, moderate or severe dementia due to...

The profile of place of death

Shifting pain management in the community

Current thinking, developed over many years of turning routinely to pharmacological measures, presumes that pain should never be experienced in the modern world, and that there is a pill that can...

Hand and other hygiene practices

‘Role modelling good hygiene practices to students and others should be part of professional practice.’.

Experimenting with gene silencing in cardiovascular medicine

The gene-silencing research outlined in this article is just some of the innovative work taking place in cardiovascular medicine. Next month's column will discuss tissue engineering and regeneration,...

District nursing today

‘The lack of consistency regarding remuneration, clinical band, prescribing, role and job title undermines the public's understanding of the title ‘district nurse’.’ .