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Overseas recruitment

01 October 2001

Nursing Older People

Opinion

Recruiting nurses from overseas can be a solution for the acute staffing shortages experienced by nursing homes. But before accepting nursing home contracts, it is...

Intermediate Care – What Do We Know About Older People’s Experiences?

01 February 2004

Nursing Older People

Book Review

Rather than exploring older people’s experiences in any breadth or depth, this book highlights the lack of existing research into their experiences of intermediate...

Forums at congress

01 June 2002

Nursing Older People

RCN news: policy and practice groups

As always, the ‘older people’ forums were prominent at RCN Congress, trying to ensure that issues affecting older people were kept in the spotlight. Contributions...

Talking About Aphasia

01 February 2008

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book was published ten years ago and is based on an aphasia and disability project that ran from 1994-1996. And I must say upfront that while the effects of...

Perspectives on death and dying

01 July 2010

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This easy-To-read, well-referenced book is targeted at health and social care professionals, particularly those undertaking study in palliative and end of life care....

Providing good care at night for older people

01 April 2011

Nursing Older People

Book Review

THIS IS an excellent care home practice guide. The authors assert that most research and information about care homes focuses on service given in the daytime and...

Infection control improvements

01 November 2009

Nursing Older People

Letter

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has identified a serious lack of communication between hospitals and care homes on patient infections (CQC 2009). Problems relating...

Rehabilitation in nursing homes

01 June 2001

Nursing Older People

CPD

Rehabilitation is a key concept in the government’s plans to modernise the NHS. Its aim is to restore a person’s autonomy, although there are sometimes barriers to...

Innovative practices should march on

23 June 2004

Nursing Standard

Letter

As a consultant nurse for older people I found the report on innovative practice at Addenbrookes and Reading (news June 9) heartening, and it will give others ideas...

Pressure sore prevention in nursing homes

19 July 2000

Nursing Standard

CPD

Staff working in nursing homes are caring for increasingly dependent residents, who are consequently at great risk of developing pressure sores. Mary Clay offers a...

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