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The passion of florence nightingale

01 March 2012

Nursing Management

Book Review

A HEAVILY revised new edition of Hugh Small’s 1998 book, Florence Nightingale, Avenging Angel, makes an important contribution to nursing history.

My Ward: The Story of St Thomas’, Guy’s and the Evelina Children’s Hospitals and their Ward Names

01 May 2011

Nursing Management

Book Review

This is a fascinating record of the stories behind the names of wards at three London hospitals and of the hospitals themselves. Made possible by a grant from Guy’s...

It won’t hurt a bit! nursing tales from the swinging sixties

01 September 2011

Nursing Management

Book Review

BORN IN 1944, Jane Yeadon – the daughter of a Scottish farmer – decided at school that she wanted to be a nurse. Jane was not particularly academic but she was good...

Midwifery in Scotland: A History

01 June 2013

Nursing Management

Book review

THIS IS an important work for midwifery in Scotland and for the history of the specialty in general. Nurse, midwife and author Lindsay Reid has put together a...

My husband and I

01 November 2004

Nursing Older People

Positive ageing

At Townley’s Hospital, Bolton, there is an Ernsting car park; in Faversham, a street named Lewis Close. Both commemorate wife-and-husband teams who, while bringing...

Soul music

01 October 2005

Nursing Older People

Positive ageing

‘I t’s just like being in church.’ So say those who listen to a CD of favourite hymns produced by the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling University....

Scaling the heights

01 October 2004

Nursing Older People

Positive ageing

At 81 Doreen Norton OBE, famous for the Norton scale, has now quit the nursing stage. But at the end of last year she was given an honorary fellowship of London’s...

No bars to better care

01 March 2005

Nursing Older People

Positive ageing

There are positive-ageing prisoners, as well as pensioners. And mental health services for older prisoners are being actively developed within the prison service....

Spirituality and Alzheimer’s

01 June 2005

Nursing Older People

Positive ageing

An aspect of Alzheimer’s disease which has not been looked at before, the effect of spirituality on patients and family carers, is being researched at the Memory...

A good read

01 September 2004

Nursing Older People

Positive ageing

Actively ageing magazines are a publishing hit. Magazines specifically directed at older people, such as The Oldie, Choice, Saga and Yours, have achieved success at...