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Travel risk assessment and risk management
Tailored advice given during travel health consultations can help people to make informed choices about risk-management strategies.
Using an adapted model of care to manage change
Care homes should move towards a remedial approach of caring for residents. This article supports managers in embedding organisational change
'There is no need for a warning label when it comes to education'
I faced a moral dilemma this week.
'Health promotion is swimming against a tide of greasy kebabs'
There are – and I consider myself an expert in this area – many different ways of not knowing things.
Nutrition screening in patients with COPD
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are at increased risk of malnutrition. Nurses should ensure they screen patients and offer advice or referral
Is culture-specific care effective in improving diabetes management in the South Asian population?
Each week we pick out a practice article and pose some topics for you to debate and pose your own questions on. What do you think?
"Teaching injection technique will improve quality of life"
Helping to develop educational tools for health professionals will support people with diabetes to manage their injectable therapies in the best way
Injection technique in insulin therapy
Insulin is the main injectable therapy used by people with diabetes, but often they do not receive adequate education on injection technique
South Asian cultural concepts in diabetes
South Asian people are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Nurses need to understand cultural issues to provide individually tailored care
Osteoarthritis 3: impact on patients
This final article in a three-part series on osteoarthritis discusses its effects
What dilemmas do nurses face caring for patients who use cannabis for therapeutic purposes?
Each week we pick out a practice article and pose some topics for you to debate and pose your own questions on. What do you think?
Would decriminalising drugs improve care?
Substance misusers often experience stigma. Would changing the laws on illegal drugs change nurses’ attitudes and result in the delivery of effective care?
How can education be used to increase sexual health screening?
Each week we pick out a practice article and pose some topics for you to debate and pose your own questions on. What do you think?
Osteoarthritis 2: pain management and treatment strategies
This second article in a three-part series on osteoarthritis discusses pharmacological and non-pharmacological management. The third part will be published online
How do you start discussions about weight loss with patients who are overweight?
Each week we pick out a practice article and pose some topics for you to debate and pose your own questions on. What do you think?
Therapeutic use of cannabis
Nurses caring for patients with life-limiting or terminal illnesses who use illegal cannabis face a number of legal and professional dilemmas
"Clinicians must not bottle out of advising on formula feeds"
There is a need to look at how information on formula feeds can be made available to health professionals
Education to increase sexual health screening
A sexual health outreach team found that combining educational sessions with testing increased uptake of screening among young people
Helping survivors to adjust after cancer
As the number of people living with or beyond cancer is growing, nurses have a crucial role in helping them adjust to their new lives after their treatment
Self-management of obesity
Obesity is a complex condition and nurses in the community must use various strategies to help patients achieve sustained weight loss
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Managing obesity in primary care
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How can perinatal support help to protect maternal mental health?
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Dietary treatment for familial hypercholesterolaemia
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Perinatal support to protect maternal mental health
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Educating patients to prevent diabetic foot ulceration
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Where does mental health nursing fit in primary care?
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Improving training in motivational interviewing
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Continence advice association announce conference dates
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'I went to user forums and talked to ex-users, who thought it was a wonderful idea'
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Obesity in children is a ticking time bomb
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Pelvic floor health: information for teenagers
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Kebab consumption can be cut with compliments
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New post for top lung nurse
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Staff flu vaccine views criticised
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'Alcohol misuse is the most daunting of public health challenges'
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Government sets out plans for funding public health
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College urges pregnant women not to shun flu vaccination
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Flu outbreak 'no worse than usual'
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Swine flu kills 14 people
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Northern women 'lack vitamin D'
