Treatment options in alopecia
22 May 2009
Specialist nurse Jenny Bostock looks at the management of this psychologically distressing disorder....is the key to living with this condition. Jenny Bostock is a nurse practitioner in Canterbury, Kent ...
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Viewpoint: Nurse involvement in CPR decisions
14 Dec 2007
New guidelines on involving nurses' views in decisions over who should receive CPR will benefit...New CPR guidelines issued by the BMA, the Royal College of Nursing and the Resuscitation Council state that experienced nurses should be allowed to make decisions regarding the resuscitation of a ... Some anti-choice organisations may see the resolution to allow nurses to make this decision ...
Clinical Review: Crohn's disease
28 Apr 2011 | by Dr Guy Chung-Faye, Jaroslava Tumova
Contributed by Dr Guy Chung-Faye, consultant gastroenterologist, and Jaroslava Tumova, IBD nurse
Practice Dilemma - Privacy at a nursing home
09 May 2012
The Dilemma : You regularly attend a nursing home. The patients are well looked after ... and dignity. There may be problems within the nursing home causing stress and affecting professionalism ... they did not wish the patients to be examined. Though most nursing homes are exemplary, there have been ...
Clinical Review: Huntington's disease
15 Sep 2011 | by Rachel Taylor and Professor Sarah Tabrizi
Contributed by Rachel Taylor, nurse consultant, The National Hospital for Neurology...help with packages of care, respite for carers and nursing home placements. Psychiatric ... nursing care. Where possible, the patients' preferences regarding place of care and place of death ... was well known to the multidisciplinary clinic, contacted the team via the nurse-led telephone clinic ...
Letters, calls and emails: Nurses cannot know how quality money is spent
25 Jan 2008
I do not see how nurses, without access to practice accounts and minutes of partnership meetings, can authoritatively state that quality profits have not been reinvested in the practice (GP, 14 December 2007). Dr Jonathan Holbrook, Epsom, Surrey. ...
Practice dilemma - A colleague's refusal to treat
22 Oct 2009
The Dilemma - A 40-year-old woman complains after seeing your practice nurse. She has attended your...to quit smoking and take appropriate steps in discussion with her. I would discuss with the nurse ... . I would emphasise to the nurse that her attitude amounts to being professionally negligent ... to be treated for her condition. As her relationship with the practice nurse appears to have broken down ...
Providing travel services
22 Aug 2008
Dr Michael Ingram reviews a new competency framework for nurses working in travel health....If there is one area of clinical practice that is almost entirely delegated to practice nurses ... or interest in the field, there is little doubt that patients are better served by a nurse-led travel health ... . If GPs are leaving the provision of travel health to practice nurses, this begs a number of questions ...
Child health
23 Dec 2005
A child's toilet problems may be very distressing, but nurses can offer help, says Heather Welford....guilty. School nurses may be the first healthcare professional to share a parent s concerns about ... ), and keeping up motivation when things do not change straight away, mean that nurses may see a family for many ... , a school nurse in Nottinghamshire, is part of a team offering continence services to school age ...
Practice dilemma - Patient refuses a chaperone
09 Sep 2010 | by Dr Barney Tinsley, Dr Sonya McCullough and Antony Chuter
concerned. You offer a nurse chaperone, which she declines stating that you are a doctor and she...a chaperone present for your own protection and for her reassurance. You offer a nurse chaperone ...
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