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The collapse of caring

01 October 1992

Elderly Care

Nursing in Europe

Zlenice, Czechoslovakia, May 1992. Imagine a room full of nurses from a score of nations - most of them the ‘restructuring’ countries of Eastern Europe. Without the...

Eastern promise

01 September 1993

Elderly Care

Nursing in europe

Last July I had the privilege of participating in a nursing leadership seminar in Warsaw. Organised by the RCN, and with the support of the European Healthcare...

The coming of Euronurse

01 May 1992

Elderly Care

Nursing in europe

In this year when the barriers of the countries of Europe continue to fall, it seems timely to look at a European perspective on nursing. This column will be...

Precious resources

01 November 1992

Elderly Care

Nursing in europe

My tour of the hospital left me cold. Cold on the outside because the heating system had failed and was under repair. Cold on the inside because I was overwhelmed by...

A Nursing Development Unit

01 June 1987

Elderly Care

Nursing development

We are all in the business of change. Alvin Toffler: Future Shock The opening of a new department of medicine for the elderly at Tameside General Hospital in April...

Ten years at Tameside

01 December 1991

Elderly Care

Nursing development Units

November of this year marked the tenth anniversary of Tameside’s Nursing Development Unit. From the changes begun in one dingy and institutionalised ward for older...

Primary nursing and the older patient

01 March 1990

Elderly Care

Insight

Nursing tends to have its fashionable themes from time to time. A scan through the nursing literature of recent years might suggest that primary nursing has become...

Growing horns together

01 November 1993

Elderly Care

Nursing in europe

Anyone following reports in the British media during the middle of October could have teen forgiven for thinking that the UK had found the cause of all society’s...

Y viva el lunchtime

01 May 1993

Elderly Care

Royal college of nursing

It was lunchtime. And a Spanish lunchis a long lunch. This is not snack territory. 'this Ls a place where good food and wine are treasured, where taking time is...

Collaborative nursing

01 March 1994

Elderly Care

Nursing in europe

As Yugoslavia collapsed, its most northerly state, Slovenia, bid for independence. A short war ensued with the federal army, but the soldiers decided they did not...