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Understanding the standard of care required by nurses

23 March 2020

Nursing Standard

professional values

It is an established principle that nurses owe their patients a duty of care, which incorporates a legal, an ethical and a professional duty. However, they must also...

The Telford model: inspiring new leaders in learning disability nursing

12 September 2019

Learning Disability Practice

Students

Supporting and mentoring learning disability nursing students can be rewarding for all parties, but the challenge is to ensure that the process is robust and...

Establishing an advanced care academy and its role in advanced practitioner development

28 August 2019

Nursing Management

Workforce

Advanced clinical practice (ACP) roles evolved to fill gaps in healthcare provision and improve consistency in standards of care. Historically, variance in service...

‘Other-unproven’: US research and its implications for complementary therapies in the UK

04 July 2019

Cancer Nursing Practice

non-conventional therapies

An American study has concluded that people with cancer who receive complementary medicine (CM) have a twofold greater risk of death compared with patients who had...

Audit of advanced nurse practitioner-led care of the person prescribed oral anticancer medicines

12 January 2023

Cancer Nursing Practice

Cancer treatments

Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland experienced a shift in the delivery of services during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In the authors’...

Developing evidence-based standards for the administration of oral anticancer medicines

24 November 2022

Cancer Nursing Practice

Cancer treatments

Cancer treatments have undergone a paradigm shift with the development and rapid growth of the use of oral anticancer treatment, particularly within the past ten...

Assessing the effect of physical activity and exercise on nurses’ well-being

26 March 2020

Nursing Standard

health promotion

It is generally accepted that physical activity has many health benefits, such as improved cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness and bone health. Despite this,...

Mental health nurse education: a contemporary view in the debate between generic and specialist approaches

04 July 2023

Mental Health Practice

Nurse education

Many mental health nurses and academics believe that the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s standards of proficiency for registered nurses, published in 2018, have...

Ethical decision-making: exploring the four main principles in nursing

22 July 2024

Nursing Standard

Professionalism

Nurses are regularly confronted with moral questions and ethical dilemmas in their practice, for example where a patient’s decisions about their treatment conflict...