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Stigmatising feelings and disclosure apprehension among children with epilepsy

08 July 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

Art & Science

Despite worldwide campaigns to enhance public awareness, understanding and acceptability of epilepsy, stigmatising feelings remain among children with epilepsy and...

Service users’ disclosure practices following discharge from hospital

09 April 2014

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Using qualitative data collected from 31 participants, this article describes mental health service users’ disclosure practices following their discharge from...

Confidentiality and children with HIV

01 June 2009

Paediatric Nursing

Research

Aim This study explored how healthcare professionals ensure confidentiality for children with HIV, whether these methods comply with the Data Protection Act and the...

Confidentiality and children with HIV

01 June 2009

Paediatric Nursing

A&S Science

Aim This study explored how healthcare professionals ensure confidentiality for children with HIV, whether these methods comply with the Data Protection Act and the...

Disclosing a diagnosis of dementia: a background to the phenomenon

27 November 2013

Nursing Older People

Art & Science

The number of people with dementia who have not received a formal diagnosis is high, in the UK and also internationally. Government strategies aim to raise public...

Exchange and equality during data collection: relationships through story sharing with lesbian mothers

19 July 2012

Nurse Researcher

A&S Science

Aim To explore how reciprocity is achieved through a method of self-disclosure, namely story sharing. Background Self-disclosure through story sharing promotes...

Breaking bad news to people with learning disabilities and dementia

02 September 2015

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

People with learning disabilities are now enjoying a longer life expectancy than ever before as a result of enhanced medical and social interventions and improved...

Conducting qualitative research in the context of pre-existing peer and collegial relationships

30 May 2014

Nurse Researcher

Peers

Aim To highlight issues and challenges faced in recruitment and interviewing during a study that sought to explore the transition of nurses into academic life and...

Intimacy in nursing

06 September 2006

Nursing Standard

Clinical digest

There are many definitions of intimacy in nursing but what they all have in common is the need for communicated empathy, for nursing that is not just caring for but...

Breaking the silence

01 March 2011

Nursing Standard

General article

Identifying and supporting women injured as a result of domestic violence is the goal of a clinical nurse specialist in a north London hospital.

25 March 2019 / Vol 22 issue 2

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