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An introductory guide to community care

01 June 2002

Nursing Older People

Book Review

A well-written publication providing a simple explanation to the very complex subject of community care. It demystifies the jargon used by professionals in the field...

Is there a role for nurses in rehabilitation?

01 November 2008

Nursing Older People

Ask the experts

Firstly, what is rehabilitation? Is it fundamental to every nurse’s practice or is it some specialist skill which is practised in settings defined as providing...

Factors Affecting Demand for Primary Health Care Services by Residents in Nursing Homes and Residential Care Homes

01 September 2001

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book contains valuable information about the use of primary care services by nursing and residential home residents. It covers an area which, as yet, has...

Neglect is not a cut and dried issue

01 September 2008

Nursing Older People

Features

There are obviously situations where the development of a pressure injury is caused by neglect and/or poor practice; however, with the increasing number of...

Dignified care

01 April 2010

Nursing Older People

Opinion

Do not forget the person: this is the central message of a new dignity campaign by the British Geriatrics Society (BGS), aimed at reminding all those working with...

Practice question

01 November 2010

Nursing Older People

Resources

As a nurse practitioner for older people I spent many years responding to requests for home visits to nursing and residential home residents. Now I respond to...

Practice question

01 July 2010

Nursing Older People

Resource

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) have been part of the legal framework for the care of people lacking capacity since 2009. Yet there remains a great deal...

Practice question

01 September 2012

Nursing Older People

Resources

Market forces

01 November 2009

Nursing Older People

Letter

It is no doubt time for the debate on how social care will be provided and financed in the future and the government’s green paper Shaping the Future of Care...

Stop wasting time and energy

11 June 1997

Nursing Standard

Regulars

Time and again we hear debate about health care assistants joining the Royal College of Nursing. It doesn’t matter what level they reach, they remain assistants...