01 Jun 2007
Lack of specialist training and of support in practice are two of the factors hindering supplementary nurse prescribing for skin conditions. Questionnaires were completed by 580 qualified supplementary nurse prescribers who prescribed for skin conditions, 90 per cent of whom worked in primary care ...
01 Nov 2010
| by Joanne Townsend
The specialist nurse can have a key role in treating women with urinary incontinence....of professional practice 5 is that nurses' traditional roles can be extended to provide more specialist interventions, including services normally provided by doctors. Evidence shows that nurses can be as effective ...
of pelvic floor muscle contraction before PFME is commenced.
An increasing number of nurses are being ...
01 Oct 2005
Compression therapy is important in the treatment and management of leg ulcers. By specialist nurse...ulcers requires expertise and knowledge. 2 District nurses undertake most of the responsibility for the treatment and management of leg ulcers, with some practice nurses and nursing staff implementing care ...
improves healing rates, reduces pain and enhances quality of life, in addition to reducing nursing time ...
01 Oct 2005
nurse Karina Jackson...input and this is helped if a nurse education clinic is accessible. What to do when treatments ...
. Nurse-led eczema education clinics are an excellent forum for supporting patients in learning about eczema management. - Karina Jackson is a clinical nurse specialist at St John s Institute ...
01 Jun 2008
| by Dr Elizabeth Ogden and Gill Godsell
A GP and a nurse specialist assess current prevention measures. By Dr Elizabeth Ogden and Gill...separating histogenetic types. J Natl Cancer Inst 1984 73(1): 75-82. A NURSE'S VIEW By Gill Godsell ...
and mortality. - Gill Godsell is skin care nurse specialist at the dermatology department, Nottingham ...
23 Dec 2010
special interest in dermatology, whether GPs with a special interest, GPs, nurses or consultant
01 Sep 2009
| by Dr Mark Taubert
, Swansea, South Wales. The team consists of seven specialist palliative care nurses, one specialist ...
such as pain and symptom control are managed in conjunction with district nurses and GPs. Regular ...
district nurse's number would also be considered correct, because this service points patients in the right ...
01 May 2009
| by Dawn Chapman and Joanna Rowley
'. Developments in nursing roles could help to solve some of the immediate problems facing breast cancer services ...
that nurse practitioners can become highly competent in breast and axillary node examination following ...
CARE OPTIONS These may initially be managed by nurse practitioner or GP Young patients ...
01 Aug 2006
, clinical assistant, or specialist nurse. In every general practice setting, doctors and nurses ...
recently launched a new publication for nurse prescribers. Last year, we launched MIMS Dermatology, a ...
01 Oct 2005
nurse. In every general practice setting, doctors and nurses are considering how best to organise ...
newspaper GP for more than 40 years, and we recently launched a new weekly publication for nurse ...