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The use of e-learning in continuing professional development

01 February 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Research

Aim To record and evaluate the experiences of a group of learning disability nurses at an NHS trust in England who had undertaken continuing professional development...

Responses to a recurring admission alert system

08 June 2011

Emergency Nurse

Feature

This article presents and discusses a service improvement project to introduce an automated alert system that notifies a nominated healthcare worker that a cancer...

Internet skills for nurses

01 March 2001

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

As the internet becomes increasingly accessible to more people, it is important to understand its relevance to nursing. Rod Ward discusses its benefits and...

Cancer patients use of the internet

01 March 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

The internet is simply a network of computers which, when linked via telephone lines, becomes an information medium and communication device (Gomez et al 1998,...

Setting up a chemotherapy service at home

01 April 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

Over recent years it is recognised that the provision of chemotherapy administration has shifted from the inpatient setting to the outpatient setting and of latter...

Staff responses to an emergency department admission alert system

09 June 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

This article presents and discusses a service improvement project to introduce an automated alert system that notifies a nominated healthcare worker that a cancer...

Using the virtual world to change chemotherapy services

04 September 2009

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

The Chemotherapy Planning Online Resource Tool (C-PORT) supports effective capacity planning and assists with service redesign. This article examines how a large...

Psychiatric nursing and the Internet

01 March 1998

Mental Health Practice

Technology

Some people argue that there is something inhuman in the way that we increasingly communicate with each other via computers. The enhanced communication allegedly...

digital divides: the implications for social inclusion

01 July 2007

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The information technology society surrounds us whether or not we choose to, or are able to, use it. We use the internet for shopping, communicating, recreation,...

Sharpening the focus of mental health nursing: primary health care

01 April 1998

Mental Health Practice

Features

Psychiatric nursing first reached into the community over 40 years ago, when nurses began to provide support to patients in their own home, after discharge from...