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Breaking news
Video: Should nursing be an all graduate profession?
Nursing Times caught up with nurses at the 2009 Nursing Times Awards to ask what they thought of plans to make nursing an all-graduate profession.
Nursing Times Awards 2009 - video highlights
All the highlights from the 2009 Nursing Times Awards
Swine flu deaths up while new cases fall
The number of swine flu deaths has risen to 142 in England, 21 in Wales, 38 in Scotland and 13 in Northern Ireland, bringing the UK total to 214.
NHS staff urged to apologise for mistakes
The National Patient Safety Agency, responsible for monitoring errors across the country, believes an apology could cut the number of complaints and legal actions against NHS trusts, and has urged staff to be more open and honest about their errors.
RCN welcomes free personal care plans
The RCN has welcomed the Government’s proposal to give free personal care to those in the greatest need but has said the plans are ‘just one piece of the jigsaw’.
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Swine flu vaccination programme extended to under-fives
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Video: Ann Keen and Karen Jennings on making nursing an all-graduate profession
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Urinary incontinence reduces quality of life in children with CKD
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Research highlights lack of dignity during toileting
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NPC publishes new resource for nurse prescribers
PATIENT SAFETY
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Nursing blogs
Productive Ward: An international affair
Not content with tranforming care through the Productive Ward programme in her own hospital, Suzanne Turner hosted a group of Belgian delegates hoping to export the winning formula
Do you do enough to ensure dignified care for the dying?
Sheila Payne encourages nurses to take an active role in improving end of life care
Practice questions
If a wound is infected with anaerobic bacteria, are there specific dressings that should not be used?
Nursing practice often involves undertaking procedures about which there is debate or uncertainty. In Practice Question we ask experts to determine how nurses should approach these situations
Case studies
How taking on a mothering role can lead to less effective care and advocacy for patients
The treatment of a patient and attitudes towards him raised questions about the nursing role, and gender and age differences between nurses and patients
Guided learning
Adult obesity 2: treatment and management options for weight loss and maintenance
Nurses need to know about the main management options for treating this increasingly common condition, and how best to help patients maintain weight loss
Adult obesity 1: tackling the causes of the obesity epidemic and assessing patients
Obesity is growing in prevalence and nurses need to understand its causes, consequences and co-morbidities, and how to discuss it with patients
Innovations
How using a patient journey approach helps to educate nurses about patient safety
A children’s hospital redesigned its clinical update sessions, using a patient journey approach to improve staff perceptions of the importance of safety
Share nursing ideas
Care of deteriorating patients
Salford Royal Foundation Trust signed up to Patient Safety First in 2008 and is one of the trusts to implement the reducing harm from deterioration intervention.
Joint working with the parent of a child with Down's Syndrome and learning disabilities
Genuine joint working between a community nurse, clinical psychologist and the parent of a child with Down’s Syndrome and learning disabilities enabled progress far beyond the boundaries of traditional working partnerships
Nursing practice, clinical research
Understanding the role of genetics and genomics in health 2: implications for practice
With major advances in genetics and genomics, nurses need to develop their knowledge and understanding of the topic and know how to integrate this into practice
Following the patient journey to improve medicines management and reduce errors
Examining one patient’s journey in hospital highlights where medicines management could be improved to ensure patient safety
Exploring the factors contributing to drug errors and how to improve knowledge
IIt is important to identify the factors that increase the potential for medicine administration errors and address how best to overcome these
Analysis
Doctors v nurses: Blurring the boundaries
With a government review, increased autonomy, advanced roles and working time laws contributing to nurses taking on junior doctors’ tasks, Clare Lomas looks at how the boundaries between the professions have become blurred.
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Swine flu
Breaking news and background info on the swine flu outbreak.
Resources
Online masterclass: Planning for winter influenza - assessing the potential impact on HCAIs
Have you planned for early discharge during the winter influenza season? Does your winter preparedness plan include provision for MRSA patients?
Beyond the Bedpan
Nurses need degrees, like a hole in the head
Do you need to go to university before you become a nurse? Beyond the Bedpan tries desperately to sit on the fence, but readers’ minds appear to be made up
Events and conferences
Nursing Times Conferences tackle the critical issues in nursing today. They deliver insight, practical guidance and an independent voice. Our events are essential learning and skills development opportunities for all nurses. Click here to go to events and conferences.
Practice comment
Metrics enable the profession to take control of nursing quality
As the media spotlight focuses on quality of care, nurses need to use metrics to take control of the nursing quality agenda, says Mandie Sunderland
Join the debate
Evidence-based practice
Phenomenology in nursing research: methodology, interviewing and transcribing
An outline of how to carry out phenomenological research, with advice for novice nurse researchers on how to use this approach
Prime Minister's Commission
Breaking news, background info, opinion and analysis on the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing And Midwifery - the most radical and far-reaching review of nursing care in nearly 40 years
Behind the headlines
Immune systems and ageing
“Elderly people succumb to viruses ‘because their immune systems work too hard’,” The Daily Telegraph has reported. The newspaper says that new research into the immune system could also affect the way flu vaccination is planned.
Free stuff for nurses
Free cinema tickets to see Harry Brown
Registered users can get free cinema tickets to see the new film Harry Brown. Sign in now to claim your free tickets. Hurry, tickets are limited.
Win a copy of 'Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children'
Registered users can win one of five copies of new children’s book Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children
Poll
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