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Local development

01 November 1997

Nursing Management

Nursing management

Local pay continues to receive bad press, with journals predicting the exploitation of a work force and a return to draconian terms and conditions.

Advanced nursing practice in intermediate care

11 April 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Initiatives in intermediate care are mainly nurse-led and, as nursing practice becomes more advanced, nurses need to consider the professional, ethical and legal...

Leadership: improving the quality of patient care

12 April 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The satisfaction staff achieve from their work is in part determined by the style of management they work under. This article analyses the impact of a proactive...

Nurse consultants and the care of older people: developing new roles

01 June 2003

Nursing Older People

Gerntological nurse practice

The rapidly developing roles of nurse consultants continue to challenge the essence and scope of nursing practice (DoH 2002), and national health policy has created...

Cultural sensitivity: a practical approach to improving services

02 May 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Reports commissioned by the Department of Health (Acheson 1998, Alexander 1999) have highlighted the failure of the NHS to provide culturally sensitive services for...

Community matrons: patients’ and carers’ views of a new service

30 July 2008

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article presents the results of a survey of patients’ and carers’ views about a community matron service in England. Key themes identified by patients and...

Ask the experts

01 October 2005

Nursing Older People

Gerontological care and practice

There is ‘no one size fits all’ solution to giving control to older people at the end of life. We need to move away from traditional homogenous and paternalistic...

Mental health in acute care: part two

01 November 2004

Nursing Older People

Resources

A range of strategies and service models have developed around the UK to improve the care that older people with mental health needs are offered in acute services....

Ask the experts Spirituality in care

01 February 2006

Nursing Older People

Care

Ask the Experts is a forum in which nurse consultants working with older people debate an issue in older people’s care and offer advice. This month they consider a...

Ask the experts: person-centred care

01 December 2005

Nursing Older People

Care

Ask the Experts is a forum in which nurse consultants working with older people debate an issue in older people’s care and offer advice. This month they consider a...