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Good practice guideline: Promoting Early Identification of Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapies Side Effects: – Two Approaches.

11 November 2016

Cancer Nursing Practice

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This guidance has been produced by the National Chemotherapy Board in response to concerns that patients often delay reporting serious Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy...

‘My challenge is for chemotherapy nurses to take a step back and rethink their role’

11 November 2016

Cancer Nursing Practice

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I represent UKONS on the National Chemotherapy Board, which has a remit to provide guidance, oversight and support for the continued development of high-quality,...

VOX pop purchasing

01 October 1994

Nursing Management

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The idea of choices in health care continues to be debated in this country. At the East Sussex Health Authority we conducted a market research exercise which...

Geared to success

12 December 1987

Nursing Standard

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Genie Krakowska's job title is not one to fire the imagination. But as Southern Derbyshire's Equipment/ Supplies Liaison Nurse she insists that her post is a very...

Lessons from King's Cross

12 December 1987

Nursing Standard

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University College Hospital was to have held a mock disaster alert the week after the King's Cross fire tested their major accident procedure for real. The system...

Training the body

05 December 1987

Nursing Standard

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Christine Norton is very sympathetic to the continence problems of older people - the people we always pigeon-hole in our minds with incontinence.

A worthy cause

05 December 1987

Nursing Standard

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Staff appraisals can be a nightmare. In theory, the appraisal interview should be a golden opportunity for nursing staff to discuss their performance at work in an...

Choosing the best equipment

05 December 1987

Nursing Standard

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As the frontline professionals most likely to initiate resuscitation procedures in every patient area, clinical nurses are invariably in the best position to advise...

Endometriosis

12 December 1987

Nursing Standard

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Endometriosis occurs, probably, in one or two per cent of the general female population - and about 20 per cent of infertile women.

Come to grief

12 December 1987

Nursing Standard

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This year has seen a series of terrible major disasters with people dying in appalling circumstances. In the aftermath of the tragedies, support groups have been set...