Forum focus - Taking part counts.
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INCREASED PARTICIPATION of members is vital to the success of the Royal College of Nursing, which is why congress is such a pivotal event in the organisation's calendar. Two major changes at this month's congress aim to highlight the importance of member participation: the annual general meeting will be held and the forum steering committee elections launched.
PMID: 24874623 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nursing Older People)
Source: Nursing Older People - May 1, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Edwards S Tags: Nurs Older People Source Type: research
Emphasis on the problems of ageing detracts from the joy.
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LAST YEAR saw the care of older people dominate political discussion. From publication of the inquiry report into the Stafford Hospital scandal in February to the G8 dementia summit in December, the challenge of caring for older patients has hardly been out of the news. But the Royal College of Nursing's new professional lead for the care of older people, Dawne Garrett (pictured), does not want to talk about any of that.
PMID: 24787931 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Nursing Older People)
Source: Nursing Older People - April 30, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Triggle N Tags: Nurs Older People Source Type: research
Promoting health: making every contact count.
This article describes a new training programme devised and run by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to assist staff to make every patient contact count. The aim of the training programme is to help nurses become more effective when offering opportunistic health promotion advice as part of their routine work, and avoid generating resistance to change.
PMID: 24641058 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nursing Standard)
Source: Nursing Standard - March 19, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Percival J Tags: Nurs Stand Source Type: research
An insight into nursing today.
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Every year Nurse Researcher supports the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual International Nursing Research Conference, which is being held in Glasgow this April ( www.rcn.org.uk/research2014 ).
PMID: 24673345 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Nurse Researcher)
Source: Nurse Researcher - March 1, 2014 Category: Nursing Tags: Nurse Res Source Type: research
Evaluation of leadership practices: how to develop a vision
Leadership competencies and more specifically a strategic vision are essential to managing increasingly complex healthcare organisations and change. However, Switzerland, like many other countries, has identified a lack of leadership skills among nurse leaders. Therefore the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) Clinical Leadership Programme has been adapted, implemented and evaluated in the Swiss nursing context. The aim of this qualitative study was to evaluate the Leadership Programme’s support for vision development. In-depth interviews with six nurse leaders, who were purposefully selected according to the quan...
Source: Journal of Research in Nursing - February 25, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Martin, J. S., McCormack, B., Fitzsimons, D., Spirig, R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Quality of Life and Care in the Nursing Home
A central component of the international nursing home development agenda is to deliver compassionate care that is evidence informed and directed at optimizing the resident's quality of life (QoL) including end of life experiences. Few would challenge this focus on positive resident centered outcomes, and it is easy to proceed without probing deeper into the complexity of what this really means conceptually, philosophically, and practically. The latest Royal College of Nursing [United Kingdom (UK)] survey, completed in 2012, explored the quality of nursing home care within England and identified 10 persistent challenges to ...
Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Debbie Tolson, Belinda Dewar, Graham A. Jackson Tags: Editorials Source Type: research
The qualitative findings from an online survey investigating nurses' perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care
ConclusionGenerally, nurses had a broad, inclusive understanding of spirituality considering this to be ‘universal’. There was some uncertainty and fear surrounding the boundaries between personal belief and professional practice. Respondents advocated formal integration of spirituality within programmes of nurse education.
Relevance to clinical nursingThe concept of spirituality and the provision of spiritual care are now recognised as fundamental aspects of the nurse's role. There is a need for greater clarity between personal and professional boundaries to enable nurses to feel more confident and competent in delive...
Source: Journal of Clinical Nursing - October 14, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Wilfred McSherry, Steve Jamieson Tags: Spiritual and emotional support Source Type: research
The RCN just doesn't get it.
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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN, 2013) has published its response to the Francis Inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The RCN discuss their responses to most of the 290 recommendations made in The Francis Report.
PMID: 24037390 [PubMed - in process] (Source: British Journal of Nursing)
Source: British Journal of Nursing - September 12, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Peate I Tags: Br J Nurs Source Type: research
Exciting times ahead for EBN
It's an exciting time here at EBN. For the second year we are sponsoring the Marjorie Simpson Award at the Royal College of Nursing's International Nursing Research Society Conference. Marjorie Simpson (1924–1992) was one of the founder members of the research discussion group for nurses in the UK that eventually became the Royal College of Nursing's Research Advisory Group. Marjorie endeavoured to foster research-mindedness among nurses and it is a fitting tribute to her commitment to research within nursing that this award for new researchers is named in her honour. Continuing Marjorie's desire to ensure nursing ca...
Source: Evidence-Based Nursing - March 8, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Twycross, A. Tags: Pain (neurology) Editorials Source Type: research
The Willis Commission on nurse education: explicit content.
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A UK-wide commission chaired by Lord Willis of Knaresborough with a panel of seven independent commissioners, consisting of service-user representatives, nurse educationists, managers and practitioners has reported on its findings (Royal College of Nursing (RCN), 2012a).
PMID: 23299213 [PubMed - in process] (Source: British Journal of Nursing)
Source: British Journal of Nursing - January 9, 2013 Category: Nursing Authors: Peate I Tags: Br J Nurs Source Type: research
Emerging nursing roles for late effects care for children and young adults with cancer
Conclusion: Our work has identified existing and ideal roles for nurses providing late effects services. This information has provided the foundation for the development of a nurse competence framework which has been ratified by the Royal College of Nursing, UK. (Source: European Journal of Oncology Nursing)
Source: European Journal of Oncology Nursing - September 3, 2012 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Clare Warnock, Janice Siddall, Jenny Freeman, Diana Greenfield Source Type: research
