Research

Nurses should not be left to do dull, repetitive jobs which junior doctors want to avoid, unions warned last week, as a new report backed the use of nurses as surgeon's assistants.

Assistants' Manners and Nurses' Fees

A course for health care assistants (HCAs) caring for older people is proving so successful that five students are going on to train as nurses.

The palliative care needs of people with learning disabilities are not always recognised, resulting in many having no choice about their death, a conference has heard.

This paper reports on a nurse consultant's experiences of using Discovery Interview technique with older patients and their relatives about their urgent care experiences.

This article describes the role of the research nurse in palliative care clinical trials. The need for these trials has been well documented, and there is a requirement to produce evidence that interventions employed in everyday practice actually work. This paper describes the explicit components an …

Emergency nurses remain divided over proposals to develop US-style physician assistants in UK A&E settings.

I must congratulate Greenwich District Hospital on running their theatres without Operating Department Assistants (Nursing Standard week ending October 31), lam sure the two ODAs who did not have their names printed had no reason to feel personally insulted. As I read the article, it was attacking t …

Nurses could play a pivotal role in reducing 'invasive and potentially harmful' treatments experienced by older people during their last weeks of life, a leading cancer nurse has said.

What was the nature of the CPD activity, practice-related feedback and/or event and/or experience in your practice? I read the article because it was relevant to my practice as a nurse on a surgical unit, where many of the patients are older people. I wanted to improve my understanding of what an in …

This is a timely book covering conditions other than cancer. intended for hospital nurses to enhance previous training and/ or experience, it does this through facts, questions, case studies and clinical alerts. it contains a useful list of acronyms, references and web links as well as a full-text p …

This article aims to contribute to comparative welfare state research by analysing the everyday work life of long-term care facility workers in Canada and Sweden. The study's empirical base was a survey of fixed and open-ended questions; this article presents results from a subset of respondents (Ca …

In line with current policies and service developments related to palliative care, more people are dying at home. This situation has provoked discussions about the importance of non-medical issues related to death. The process of dying is often long, with many phases, and the social aspect is a majo …

Correction to: Loft et al., Call for human contact and support: an interview study exploring patients' experiences with inpatient stroke rehabilitation and their perception of nurses' and nurse assistants' roles and functions

The films are a very useful addition to the social work toolbox. Guidelines for their use in practice will be presented.

The role of design and materials in the enactment and experience of healthcare has gained increasing attention across the fields of evidence-based design, architecture, anthropology, sociology and cultural geography. Evidence-based design, specifically, seeks to understand the ways in which the buil …

Healthcare authorities have emphasised the need to develop palliative care for everybody suffering from life-threatening diseases, including people suffering from medical organ failure. In 2011, the Danish Health Authority requested that all medical associations developed guidelines for palliative c …

: This presentation is based on our reflections as two designers entering palliative care, one working with supportive environments for death and dying and one working with issues related to health-promoting palliative care. Death, dying and mourning are important universal conditions that raise exi …

PURPOSE: The prime purpose of the study was to investigate whether focus groups were a practical way of seeking the views of dying people and whether the information collected added to that collected by more established methods. DESIGN: A sample frame of Macmillan nurse patients was collated from wh …

Clarity with the concept of self-management support and palliative nursing could enable nurses to provide more patient and family centred care to people facing life threatening illnesses.

Little has been said about the disruptive impact that the inability to eat and to participate in mealtimes has for patients with a life-threatening illness and their families. The aim of the current study is to overcome this gap and shed light on how food and eating practices are experienced by fami …

Nurses' actions seem to be related to who initiated the episode and if the episodes are categorized as 'non-infection', 'possible infection' or 'infection'. Actions could be 'observation', 'screenings', 'engaged in waiting', 'follow-ups', 'nurse-prescribed actions', 'diagnosing', 'contacting the phy …

This paper claims that palliative care (PC) is a suitable approach for offering comprehensive support to patients with life-threatening illness and unavoidable asthenia, to enhance their quality of life in aging and chronic illness. There are however some conceptual barriers to accessing that care o …

The findings suggest that from the experts' point of view (1) palliative care should focus on the needs of older people particularly in view of the demographic changes; (2) more attention should be paid to rehabilitative measures in palliative care; (3) rivalries among different stakeholders regardi …

This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between palliative care and healthy aging using a narrative case study from Thailand. The Thai context is used to clarify two concepts: healthy aging and good death. This case study describes a Thai female older adult's …

A study/lecture tour of India was undertaken by the authors during October and November 1995. The purpose of the visit was to provide a programme of education in palliative care and to gain a deeper understanding of the care of dying people in India. Seven centres were visited and the distance cover …

Culture might offer significant insights into the circumstances under which mistreatment occurs. Our aim with this study was to understand and explore institutional mistreatment from a care culture perspective. We used a case study with a triangulating methodology. It involved 12 individual intervie …

The relatives had a significant need to talk about their experiences together within the family and together with the nurses. Nurses have an especially important task in supporting relatives having a family member living in a nursing home.

This study focused on families with dependent children who participated in the Family Talk Intervention (FTI) and lost a parent during the intervention or directly thereafter. The aim was to explore how they perceived information and communication about the imminent death during the illness trajecto …

The content validity of the proposed conceptual model is supported by the consistent presence of the three domains in published definitions. This conceptual model bridges philosophical definitions and clinician behavior and has potential to inform broad implementation of a palliative approach, at bo …