'Lansley must listen to nurses on the front line' Nursing Older People
News, practice and discussion forums for older people's nurses
Practice
Preventing falls in patients
A high number of patients were admitted to a ward with mobility problems owing to a history of alcohol misuse. A sister led a project to reduce the incidence of falls.
Medication errors in patients with dysphagia
A study examined whether medication errors were more common in acute hospital patients with dysphagia than those without, and the type and cause of such errors.
Drug administration guides in dysphagia
People with dysphagia suffer more drug administration errors than the general population. Individualised guides were developed to boost nurses’ confidence and improve safety.
Diagnosing and managing epilepsy
NICE has updated its guideline on epilepsy, mainly because new drugs have been licensed to prevent variations in care.
Exploring the benefits of anal irrigation
Bowel dysfunction can have detrimental effects on psychological, physical and social functioning. Two case studies show the impact of an anal irrigation system.
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How to care for people with Parkinson’s disease
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Using a big conversation to improve care quality
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Using an adapted model of care to manage change
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MetaHabilitation: how to survive life after trauma
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Creating a culture to deliver compassionate care
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Multidimensional leg ulcer assessment
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Implementing a care model for the older person
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Preventing, assessing and managing skin tears
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A new model of care for the older person
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Creating a protocol to reduce inpatient falls
News
Calcium supplements may 'increase heart attack risk'
Calcium supplements, taken by millions of elderly people and post-menopausal women to prevent bone thinning, may double the risk of having a heart attack, a study has found.
Pearson: Poor care 'can't be dismissed as one-off events'
Examples of poor nursing care are happening too often, Sir Keith Pearson told the Royal College of Nursing Congress yesterday.
RCN outlines staffing needed for 'safe' care of older people
The Royal College of Nursing has specified precise recommendations around staffing numbers and skill mix for wards caring for older people.
Healthcare staff 'fail to support dying patients'
Some 59% of Britons fear that dying people are not treated with enough dignity and respect by health and care professionals, with many worried that medical staff are failing to meet the last wishes of their patients.
Nursing Times Learning unit explores falls prevention
Nursing Times Learning has launched a new online Falls Prevention and Management unit to support nurses in reducing patients’ risk of falling.
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Nurses should be recruited on 'caring' values
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Community nursing 'overburdened', warns RCN
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Nearly three quarters people with osteoarthritis in constant pain
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Project to tailor dementia care launched in Sussex
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Scent sprays to trigger appetite in people with dementia
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Older people's nursing 'not widely perceived as a specialism'
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Information 'key' to older people managing fall risk
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Practitioners urged to hold events for Falls Awareness Week
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Malnutrition 'affects wide range of patients'
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Dementia cases to double to 65.7m by 2030
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Nursing Times works with the Social Care Institute for Excellence to provide nurses with resources on caring for older people
Resources from SCIE
Dignity in care
Research indicates that there are eight main factors that promote dignity in care. Each of these contributes to a person’s sense of self respect, and they should all be present in care.
practice blog
'Hiving off important responsibilities devalues nurses' skills'
News that a West Midlands trust is to extend a scheme whereby unemployed people deliver patient care makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Online CPD
Nursingtimes.net Archive
Thousands of articles to help you keep your nursing practice up to date
Opinion
'Age should not be a barrier to high-quality continence care'
Despite working in continence care for more than 10 years, I still get a huge kick out of the thanks I receive from patients when I help them resolve bladder problems.
Favourites from the archive
A guide to assessing bladder function and urinary incontinence in older people
Older people require assessment of bowel and bladder function problems
Behind the Headlines
Statins 'may help even healthy over-50s'
Everyone over the age of 50 should be given statins because the “cholesterol-busting” drugs reduce the risk of a heart attack even in healthy people, according to the Daily Telegraph and many other newspapers.
