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Nurse activity to prevent and support patients with a parastomal hernia
(2015-12-17)A parastomal hernia is a common complication among stoma patients (ostomates), and represents a considerable challenge in terms of management. This paper reviewed research findings to establish how nurses can help to prevent ... -
Nurse case management and general practice : implications for GP consortia
(2011-10)Reducing hospital admission rates by nurse-led case management (community matrons) is attractive in theory but in practice is challenging for a range of reasons that need to be understood in commissioning similar services ... -
‘Nurse entrepreneurs’ a case of government rhetoric?
(2008)Introduction: Nursing has come to play a prominent role in government health policy since 1997. Extending the scope of nursing practice into activities previously carried out by doctors can assist a managerialist and ... -
Nurse Managers, Agency Nurses and Control
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)The focus of this paper is on the low trust employment relations that apparently were manifest between frontline nurse managers and their superiors in one National Health Service (NHS) Trust. These were uncovered during ... -
Nurse practitioners in primary care
(2000)Recent policy emphasizing the role of primary care has increased the workload of general practitioners (GPs) while simultaneously placing nurse practitioners (NPs) as key providers in the delivery of health care. There is ... -
Nurse referrals of children to social services
(2001)This literature review examines current referral systems and processes used by community nurses when making referrals of children in need and children in need of protection to social services departments. The problems ... -
Nurse-led case management for community dwelling older people : An explorative study of models and costs
(2013-01)Aim To compare community matrons with other nurses carrying out case management for impact on service use and costs. Background In England, nurses working in general practice, as district nurses and disease-specific nurses, ... -
Nurse-led case management in the National Health Service : bridging clinical and social worlds
(2012)To understand the effects of Nurse Case Managers (NCMs) working in primary care in the English National Health Service (NHS) from multiple perspectives and how this new role impacts on social workers, this paper reports ... -
Nurse: patient ratios influence the achievement of oxygen saturation targets in premature Infants
(2011-11-22)Addressing optimum saturation limits is essential to limit the incidence of morbidity related to oxygen damage namely retinopathy of prematurity and chronic lung disease. ■ Nurses caring for premature neonates should be ... -
Nurses and paramedics in partnership : an evaluation
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Nurses need more training to ensure effective compression therapy for venous leg ulcers
(2009)Effective compression therapy is key to healing venous leg ulcers. However, practitioners must be properly trained and assessed as competent in applying compression bandages to ensure the treatment is effective and safe. -
Nurses' confidence and pharmacological knoweldge : a study
(2002-06)The introduction of nurse prescribing will assist the government to deliver its agenda of providing patients with faster access to advice and health services. This study evaluated the knowledge base, self-rated knowledge ... -
Nurses' responses to expert patients: The rhetoric and reality of self-management in long-term conditions: A grounded theory study
(2006)Background: Against the backdrop in the western world of increasing prevalence of chronic disease, active and informed patients and a policy emphasis on self-management, this English study explored health professionals’ ... -
Nurses’ experiences of learning to care in practice environments: A qualitative study
(2019-07-01)Introduction: Recent attention has been drawn to the absence of caring behaviours in health services globally, termed a “crisis of care” and policies are developing to address this shortfall. To obtain accounts of caring ... -
A nursing assessment tool for adults with fecal incontinence
(2000)Fecal incontinence affects slightly more than 1% of community-dwelling adults. This article describes an assessment format, with a research basis when available, that has been developed in a specialist nursing clinic in ... -
The nursing contribution to chronic disease management: a case of public expectation? : Qualitative findings from a multiple case study design in England and Wales.
(2012-01)The global response to the rise in prevalence of chronic disease is a focus on the way services are managed and delivered, in which nurses are seen as central in shaping patient experience. However, there is relatively ...