Establishing a research nurses’ forum
RESEARCH NURSES are increasingly employed tounder take various roles in the...
16 Feb 2000
Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Attempting to set up a randomised controlled trial
Aim The aim of this article is to provide an account of an attempt to set up a randomised...
09 Feb 2000
Cancer nursing education
THIS PROJECT involved an extensive literature review (Langton et al 1999) and an...
09 Feb 2000
Bowel preparation for rectal and colonic investigation
Background Nurses need to have a clear understanding of the reasons for effective bowel...
02 Feb 2000
Research, ethics and the data protection legislation
As nursing research becomes more common, so does the issue of whether or not patients should...
02 Feb 2000
Information and support for people with eczema
Growing concern at the increase in eczema sufferers, has led the National Eczema Society to...
02 Feb 2000
Auditing deaths from epilepsy
EPILEPSY CAUSES about 1,000 deaths each year in the UK (Nash and Brown 1996) and is...
02 Feb 2000
Manchester clinical supervision scale
RECENT POLICY changes have highlighted the importance of clinical supervision (CS)...
26 Jan 2000
Communication problems of hearing-impaired patients
Aim The main objective of this national survey was to check the findings of an earlier pilot...
26 Jan 2000
Improving quality of primary health care in a Sudanese dispensary
Nursing in a poverty-stricken war zone means working with poor facilities and coping with...
26 Jan 2000
The ‘new genetics’ and nursing: what does it have to do with me?
Recent developments in genetics mean that this previously specialised subject is now...
26 Jan 2000
The policy context
IN HER plenary address to the RCN International Nursing Research conference in...
19 Jan 2000
Distance learning for post-registered nursing: the facts
Aim To explore nurses’ perceptions and evaluate the potential of distance learning as a...
19 Jan 2000
Assessment and learning in post-registration nurse education
Assessment in nurse education concentrates too much on academic abilities and fails to...
19 Jan 2000
Computerised databases in infection control
The use of databases in health care is expanding. Systems are now available specifically...
19 Jan 2000
Are nursing theories holistic?
Nursing theories, while claiming to present models of holistic nursing care, do not...
18 Jan 2000
Establishing a mental health liaison nurse service: lessons for the future
Mental health liaison nursing teams are developing across the UK with a diverse...
18 Jan 2000
Spiritual care in nursing: a systematic approach
Ian Govier suggests that patients will benefit if nurses adopt a systematic approach to...
12 Jan 2000