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Hospital discharge: integrating health and social care

01 August 2003

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book provides a clear and concise guide that aims to examine the reasons for difficulties in hospital discharge and suggest possible solutions. Policy...

Chronic disease nursing: a rheumatology example

01 November 2004

Nursing Older People

Book Review

Clinically focused, this book provides a resource for the development of a chronic disease nursing service. It provides an overview of chronic disease and of nursing...

Using reflective writing to gain insight into practice with older people

01 December 2002

Nursing Older People

Nursing practices

Much has been written about reflection and its potential to develop not only practitioners but an understanding of nursing practice and therapeutic working through...

Technical seduction

01 September 2006

Nursing Older People

Ask the experts

Nursing has come a long way since the first recorded actions of ‘nurses’ providing care. We have faced challenges as a profession working with older people in a...

Leg ulcers, a problem-based learning approach

01 March 2007

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book explores the field of leg ulcer management. The authors suggest that although there has been a burgeoning of knowledge in this field in the past 20 years,...

Writing skills in practice

01 April 2003

Nursing Older People

Book Review

Writing Skills in Practice presents a comprehensive overview of the development of writing skills for both practitioners and students working in health and social...

Developing a unified patient record – a practical guide

01 December 2003

Nursing Older People

Book Review

Developing a Unified Patient Record provides a practical guide for professionals working within healthcare to change the way in which information about patients is...

Practice Development in Nursing

01 April 2005

Nursing Older People

Book Review

At the core of practice development needs to be a systematic and ongoing approach to the development of therapeutic working that aims to improve the person’s...

The Long History of Old Age

01 January 2006

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book provides an absorbing overview of ‘old age’, charting the history of ageing within society. It aims to right the misconceptions of ageing throughout...

A right to good care

01 March 2010

Nursing Older People

Book Review

‘Quality of life is a right not a privilege.’ This statement had much resonance in the two-part documentary Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes?, which was...