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Shaping care with patients and carers: user satisfaction tools

01 May 1998

Nurse Researcher

Healthcare assessment tools

Successive government policy directives have endorsed the involvement of users in determining and shaping care. In keeping with this commitment the current White...

A practical handbook for community health nurses working with children and their parents

16 February 2000

Nursing Standard

Book Review

This text covers the wholespectrum of childcare policy andpractice. While focusing onpromotion of health and positiveparenting, there are excellentchapters on...

Lynda Smith, Valerie Coleman and Maureen Bradshaw Palgrave

09 April 2002

Nursing Standard

Book review

This is a refreshing and informative text exploring the multifaceted area of family-centred care in the context of children’s nursing.

Evaluating health visiting practice

10 October 1990

Nursing Standard

Clinical standards

The setting of standards allows health visitors the opportunity to make explicit their goals, practices and desired outcomes. Brenda Poulton describes how she and...

Adapting to the 1990s

07 February 1990

Nursing Standard

Supplement health visiting

There has been much debate about the future of community nurses in the light of recent Government reports (1, 2), Project 2000, demographic changes and the rise of...

Homelessness: a high priority

01 March 1991

Primary Health Care

Editorial

Media pictures of homeless people forced to sleep rough during the spell of severely cold weather have made their plight apparent.

Health for all children

01 May 1992

Primary Health Care

Child health

The second edition of “Health for All Children” (1) was launched at the end of January. The first edition published in 1989 generated much debate on the role and...

Extending nursing practice

01 December 1992

Primary Health Care

Nurse prescribing

The Royal College of Nursing has long advocated that, in order to deliver care effectively in the community, nurses should have limited prescribing rights. The...

No homes, ill health?

01 March 1991

Primary Health Care

Nurse prescribing

The legislation to allow nurses to prescribe has again been delayed. Health Minister Virginia Bottomley, while supporting the principle of nurse prescribing,...