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Nurses can work MAGIC for myeloma

01 December 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

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Are you a cancer nurse specialist working with myeloma patients in the UK? If so, I and other myeloma nurse specialists would like to hear from you, because now we...

Connecting with the grass roots of care and caring

01 December 2007

Nursing Older People

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I have just had the privilege of attending the RCN’s Nursing Older People Conference in Cardiff entitled, ‘Respecting the difference: dilemmas in dignity and...

Breaking the bread

01 December 2007

Nursing Older People

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Twelve months ago, writing in this column about Age Concern England’s damning report of older people’s experiences of going hungry in hospital (ACE 2006), I...

Human rights in action

01 July 2007

Nursing Older People

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It would be easy to consider discussion of human rights to be the exclusive domain of lawyers. Such a view might arise from the increasing frequency with which the...

The national dementia strategy: nurses need to lead change

01 February 2009

Nursing Older People

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It is estimated that 570,000 people have dementia in the UK. That means every nurse working in adult nursing will have cared for patients with dementia at some...

Measuring dignity: ask an older person

01 February 2009

Nursing Older People

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Dignity is fundamental and, as has been argued in these pages on many occasions over the past few years, is about the daily practice that each of us engages in, as...

Passionate about dementia care training

01 February 2009

Nursing Older People

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The National Dementia Strategy is good news for people with dementia, their carers and professionals. It is encouraging to see this illness given the high priority...

Recipe for change?

01 March 2007

Nursing Older People

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The new report A Recipe for Care – Not a Single Ingredient from Ian Philp, national director for older people (DH 2007) picks up on the themes outlined in last...

Death by corporate negligence

01 May 2008

Nursing Older People

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A new law came into effect on April 6. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 arises out of years of parliamentary debate, and a series of high...

Nutrition is vital to the process of recovery and wellbeing

01 May 2008

Nursing Older People

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Last month’s release of data from the largest nutrition screening survey ever undertaken in the UK makes uneasy reading. More than a third (35 per cent) of patients...