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What value registered nurses?

01 June 2000

Elderly Care

General

From 1993-1998 I was the manager of a ward catering for older women who had rehabilitation and respite needs at St Margaret’s hospital in Swindon. In 1997 it was...

Involving older people

01 December 2001

Nursing Older People

RCN news

The RCN Gerontological Nursing Programme (GNP) is involved in a wide range of practice development projects within the independent sector and the NHS. These focus on...

The NHS Plan – funding nursing care

01 April 2001

Nursing Older People

Rcn news

The NHS Plan (DoH 2000), published last year, emphasises improved care for older people. Key within it is the proposal that older people in all settings will receive...

Work-based learning expert gerontological practice

01 June 2002

Nursing Older People

Gerontological nursing programme

Education, training and life-long-learning have been identified by recent policy reports as being crucial to the development of effective gerontological practice...

Single assessment

01 September 2002

Nursing Older People

RCN news

The single assessment process has been advocated as a cure-all for some of the duplication and inconsistency of approach to assessment experienced by many older...

Older people’s specialist

01 November 2001

Nursing Older People

RCN news

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and British Geriatrics Society (BGS) recently released a joint statement in support of the development of a new nursing role – the...

Practice development: individualised care

23 May 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes the development of a person-centred approach to working with older people. The main focus is on developing the ward leader as a key...

Critical companionship part 2: using the framework

19 November 2003

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Part 1 presented the critical companionship framework for facilitating experiential learning, with exemplars of expertise. The development and testing of the...

Developing a tool to assess person-centred continence care

01 July 2006

Nursing Older People

Gerontological care and practice

This article presents an overview of the first phase of a study to determine the contextual indicators that enable or hinder evidence-based continence care and...