Leading care for older carers
Recognising the challengers carers face.
27 Oct 2016
Emma Vincent
Managing common infections: guidance for primary care
New Public Health England guidelines address the worrying rise in drug-resistant bacteria
18 Jul 2016
Respiratory champion
The Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists supports staff in a variety of ways to improve the care they provide.
28 Apr 2016
Dreams at the Threshold
The author has clearly been deeply inspired by working with patients facing a life-threatening illness. Her experience working in hospitals, clinics, and a hospice for more than 20 years has given her unique insight into dreams at the end of life.
13 Apr 2016
Learning outcomes from an end of life care training programme
The Quality End of Life Care for All (QELCA©) programme was designed by St Christopher’s Hospice to enable and empower teams of health and social care practitioners from acute, community or care home settings to lead delivery of high quality care to patients and families at the end of life (EOL). This paper shares some of the collective views from a recent programme held at the LOROS Hospice in Leicester. Our nursing backgrounds were a combination of palliative care, long-term conditions, intensive care, surgery and community respiratory care. As a group we found the QELCA course invaluable on many levels. We recognised the new-found confidence we had to take the initiative to ensure more sensitive and appropriate EOL care in our care settings. The course gave holistic insight into death and the needs of our patients and ourselves. The learning ties in well with the focus on reflection required as part of revalidation.
30 Mar 2016
ERS | Monograph – Controversies in COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common diseases in the world and it is projected to be the third leading cause of death by 2020. It is a challenging disease to manage for patients and clinicians.
30 Mar 2016
Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life
When Jackie Buxton was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in 2013, she decided to blog about her experience of living with cancer and nine months of treatment.
16 Mar 2016
Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life
When the author of this lovely book was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer at the age of 45 she decided to write a blog about her experience of living with the disease and its nine months of treatments. The readers of her blog motivated her to write this book.
10 Mar 2016
Nursing through Shot & Shell: A Great War Nurse’s Story
This well-researched book is based upon the memoir of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Force Nursing Service (TFNS) sister. It is a vivid and brave account of what it was like to be a member of the TFNS in the first world war.
02 Mar 2016
Nursing Research Using Historical Methods: Qualitative Designs and Methods in Nursing
This concise guide sets out to improve nurses’ confidence and ability to conduct nursing research using historical analysis. As a nursing professor with expertise in teaching at all levels of qualitative research, Mary de Chesnay is well placed to write about this topic.
17 Feb 2016
The Nurse’s War
In 1941, nurse Daisy Driscoll witnesses the trauma of the second world war on the rubble-strewn streets of London’s east end.
15 Jul 2015
Sixty Years a Nurse
When 18-year-old Mary Hazard started her nurse training in post-war Putney in south London,...
08 Jul 2015
Breathing Out
English showbusiness writer Karen Hockney was living the jet-set life in the south of France...
03 Jun 2015
Carers’ experience of looking after a person with chronic obstructive respiratory...
Government policy recognises the need to support caregivers in the community to ease the...
25 Jun 2014