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Redesigning wards to support people with dementia in hospital

24 March 2012

Nursing Older People

A&S Science

The Enhancing the Healing Environment programme is a nurse-led initiative, devised by charity the King’s Fund, to encourage staff to work in partnership with...

A dementia education scheme

25 March 2010

Nursing Older People

Feature

The Cornwall dementia and communication difficulties education scheme is a simple strategy to enable provision of more effective and appropriate care to patients...

Fast-track to efficiency

25 January 2011

Nursing Standard

Feature

Changing the way nurses work in one medical assessment unit has resulted in quicker and more efficient patient care.

An overview of pharmacology and acute pain: part two

06 October 2010

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article explores the role of medicines in the management of acute pain. The main categories of analgesic drugs are outlined and the different routes of...

Perceptions of a ‘virtual’ acute admission unit

09 December 2010

Emergency Nurse

Feature

The Haaglanden Medical Centre, the Hague, Netherlands, has opened a ‘virtual’ acute admission unit (VAAU) to increase throughput of acute patients. The VAAU consists...

Personality disorder: time for a new approach?

01 July 1999

Mental Health Practice

Feature

As a coordinator of a criminal justice mental health team, I believe acute mental health services face a fundamental Issue. How do these services ensure that...

Introduction of meditation to meet service users’ spiritual needs

01 April 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes how, to help meet service users’ spiritual needs and to reduce their anxiety and distress, meditation sessions were implemented on an acute...

Open AccessOC05 – Tokenism or true partnership – parental involvement in a child’s acute pain care

09 May 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Supplement

Theme: Parenting/parenthood. Introduction: Family-centred care (FCC) is widely acknowledged as underpinning children’s nursing. Delivering FCC requires nurses to...

Open AccessPO17 – Infectional viral diseases that cause acute diarrhoea with infants and toddlers: nursing and prevention. A systematic review

09 May 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Supplement

Theme: Child protection and managing risk. Aim: The aim of the research was to describe infectional viral diseases that cause severe diarrhoea with infants and...

Creating teams for acute clinical services

10 June 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

This article discusses how a project group at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, developed four multiprofessional teams that can provide first...

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