Quarterly and annual datasets and commentary for local authority health visits to pregnant women, children and their families during pregnancy and early childhood.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust’s (SHFT) Health Visiting Service has launched ChatHealth 0-5, a text messaging service to support parents, carers and families of under 5’s in Hampshire. The aim is to improve access to health information and support for families caring for babies and young children.
To estimate the prevalence and co‐occurrence of health‐related behaviours among nurses in Scotland relative to other healthcare workers and those in non‐healthcare occupations.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
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To explore how adult, child, mental health nursing and midwifery students describe their ‘values journey’ after completing their second year following exposure to the clinical practice environment. . To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Policies are needed for cultivating a compassionate care culture and for fostering students’ compassion, but no guidelines exist for nursing institutions. Targeting the affective learning domain, facilitating reflection and integrating compassionate care indicators in clinical learning experiences can be useful. Therefore, nursing institutions can use these findings to integrate and measure compassionate care in clinical and educational curricula to foster students’ compassion.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
To explore the literature regarding how nursing narratives have been used to enhance reflective practice.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To identify the prevalence of work‐related musculoskeletal disorders, levels of chronic occupational fatigue and how they vary with individual and work organization factors.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
To explore the direct and indirect effect of the personality meta‐traits ‘Stability’ and ‘Plasticity’ on moral reasoning among nurse practitioners and physician assistants.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Our guide to nursing associates, a new regulated role which bridges the gap between health and care assistants and registered nurses is now live.
With the first cohort of qualified nursing associates set to join the registered workforce, our interactive guide for employers has been produced to provide advice and support for those exploring the potential of this new role within their organisations.
When the Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust recognised a gap in its nursing workforce, it set about finding a solution by upskilling its workforce. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
The RCN is campaigning for nurse staffing for safe and effective care to be enshrined in law across all four countries of the UK.
Following a successful campaign which began in 2006, safe staffing legislation covering NHS adult acute settings in Wales was introduced in 2016.
The RCN is continuing to campaign to ensure this delivers improvements for nursing teams and their patients and for the law to be extended to other areas of nursing.
A unique team which is starting to transform care for elderly people in Shropshire stars in a new national video by NHS England which will be showcased across the country.
The frailty intervention team, known as FIT, was originally started as an idea by Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), who buy local health services, and SaTH, to help local elderly people avoid being admitted onto a hospital ward where they risk lengthier stays and recovery periods.
To identify diabetes specific patient safety domains that need to be addressed to improve home care of older people; to assess research from primary studies to review evidence on patient safety in home care services for older people with diabetes.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Macmillan Cancer Support’s census shows:
The number of new cases per specialist cancer nurse is dramatically different across the country;
A greater proportion of specialist cancer nurses being paid in lower pay bands than in 2014;
Higher vacancy rates in specialist cancer nurse and cancer support worker roles than the UK average for health and social work
The proportion of specialist cancer nurses aged over 50 has increased;
NHS Employers has developed a briefing for NHS HR professionals outlining the progress that has been made to address the ten key issues impacting the supply of nurses to the health service.
Although optimal clinical supervision has long been thought to include a supportive, pastoral or restorative element (Kadushin, 1992), it has tended to be marginalised by the more business‐like components of ‘normative’ and especially ‘formative’ supervision (the managerial and development elements).. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
This article explores the concept of resilience and suggests ways in which resilience can be developed by individuals and in collaboration with others, resulting in resilient healthcare teams and organisations capable of supporting individuals effectively. It aims to assist healthcare professionals to develop their resilience, while also improving their understanding of the complex factors that can affect their coping capacity, as well as how community influences the resilience of everyone. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.