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Volunteering for service: the role of emergency nurses

05 July 2011

Emergency Nurse

Feature

The Order of Malta Volunteers is a Roman Catholic charity best known for organising pilgrimages to Lourdes for disabled people. This article offers a personal...

Importance of good teamwork in urgent care services

05 November 2014

Emergency Nurse

Art & Science

High quality, safe care for patients depends on effective teamwork, and where multi-professional teams work together there is higher patient satisfaction, increased...

A team approach in the care of patients with oesophageal cancers

01 October 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

This article describes how an oncology nurse specialist (ONS) post was created to work with patients suffering from oesophageal cancer across three hospital sites....

A team approach to palliative chemotherapy

01 March 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

Small cell lung cancer accounts for 20 per cent of the primitive lung carcinomas. The prognosis is unfavourable, since two thirds of patients present with extensive...

Developments in education

01 May 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

This article describes the setting up and running of an education programme which provides short courses for registered staff and healthcare support workers in an...

Peripherally inserted central catheters: a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach

01 July 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

Collaborative working between multidisciplinary members of the healthcare team can provide a framework in which health professionals can continually assess, measure...

Working with anxiety in cancer: psycho-oncological care

01 February 2003

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

The Cancer Plan has highlighted the importance of psychological support in cancer care and the importance of integrative psychological support services. (DoH 2000)....

Promoting access to services: the development of a new screening tool

01 July 2006

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The term ‘learning disability’ is a social construct whose defining characteristics change in response to political and social influences. Service provision has also...

Mental healthcare services for close supervision centre prisoners

01 November 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

Close supervision centres (CSCs) contain some of the most difficult-to-manage male prisoners in England and Wales. They form a last resort in the management of...

Non-medical prescribing in community mental health settings

01 December 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

Supplementary prescribing forms the first phase of the implementation of non-medical prescribing in Cornwall Partnership Trust. It was decided to conduct a study to...