What the SPQDN taught me

The Sheffield Caseload Classification Tool: testing its inter-rater reliability

The purpose of the present study was to test the inter-rater reliability of the SCCT to ensure that the tool was robust..

Giving clinicians and patients the remote control

Fundamentally, the single biggest priority in the NHS is patient safety. Six years ago, in the wake of the Francis Report (Francis, 2013) and the Berwick Review (Berwick, 2013), a range of policies...

Enacting evidence-based practice: pathways for community nurses

This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews (n=9) and focus groups (n=2), involving 17 community nurses. The indicative topic guide was piloted and developed from feedback gathered using...

Employers' duty of care to district nursing team members: health and safety concerns with lone domiciliary visits

‘A huge number of staff are working in, frankly, unacceptable and unsafe conditions. I believe that must impact particularly on nurses, because of their role in the front line, being professionally...

Medication-related pruritis in older adults with long-term conditions

Certain medication for long-term conditions causes this distressing side effect, for example, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers taken for hypertension, angiotensin-II receptor antagonists, and...

Recognition and assessment of dementia in primary care

Dementia is an umbrella term that is used to describe a group of symptoms that are characterised by behavioural changes and loss of cognitive and social functioning. It is caused by progressive...

Housebound patients with diabetes needing support with insulin—a project to improve service standards

Julia, aged 58 years, has had type 2 diabetes for 5 years. When reviewed as part of the project, she was prescribed metformin, gliclazide and long-acting insulin once daily. Julia is housebound due to...

Constipation in community-dwelling adults with intellectual disability

Constipation is a more common clinical symptom among people with intellectual disabilities compared to other cohorts of the population (Hardy et al, 2013). Research studies have identified that...

Home versus in-patient treatment for deep vein thrombosis

The main objective of this updated Cochrane systematic review (Othieno et al, 2018) was to compare the incidence and complications of VTE in patients treated at home versus those treated with standard...

Supporting the bereaved in palliative care

Providing support for the bereaved can include some of the following:.

Nurses' duty of confidentiality towards patients

‘He who hath a secret to keep, must keep it a secret that he hath a secret to keep’. .