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Emerging values in health care

01 October 2010

Emergency Nurse

Book Review

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS and their values have changed a great deal over the past 40 years as, for example, professional boundaries have been altered and the role of...

Betraying the NHS: Health abandoned

01 February 2007

Nursing Management

Book Review

THIS BOOK records what has been happening to the NHS during 2005/06 by focusing on events in the West Suffolk area, where closure of local rehabilitation services...

Communication for Nurses: Talking with Patients

01 February 2011

Nursing Management

Book Review

COMMUNICATION SKILLS are at the heart of nursing and a core topic in nurse education, and this second edition of a successful American text provides clear, practical...

Emerging Values in Health Care

01 September 2010

Nursing Management

Book Review

The HEALTHCARE professions and their values have changed a great deal over the past 40 years as, for example, professional boundaries have been altered and the role...

Improving workplace learning

01 September 2007

Nursing Management

Opinion

the workplace has long been regarded as a site of learning. In the UK, as elsewhere, high wage costs must be justified by the high skills and qualifications of the...

Infection Control: A psychosocial approach to changing practice

01 June 2009

Nursing Management

Book Review

INFECTION CONTROL is essential for patient safety yet healthcare workers often fail to take standard precautions in their daily work. In editing this book, Elliott...

Emotional labour in health care: The unmanaged heart of nursing

01 December 2008

Nursing Management

Book Review

‘EMOTIONAL LABOUR’ is a phrase borrowed from Arlie Hochschild’s analysis of emotion management in the airline industry and was applied to the nursing profession by...

Patterns of health and illness firmly rooted in reality

08 March 2000

Nursing Standard

Book Review

This is a comprehensive, up-to-date collection of 31 well-researched chapters exploring the social realities of health and illness. International specialists...

Do they mean us?

09 January 1996

Nursing Standard

Feature education

Throughout Britain, nurse teachers and higher education staff are learning more about each other as the incorporation of colleges of nursing and midwifery (and...

Understanding benign breast disorders and disease

29 August 2001

Nursing Standard

CPD

Benign breast disorders can cause a lot of anxiety because of fears of cancer. The author gives an overview of different types of benign breast disorders and...