Although community nurses often work in isolation, it’s good know someone at a national level has got your back. Jason Beckford-Ball went to meet Viv Bennett and asked her about her vision for public health nursing in England.
Olivia Byrne & Marcella Kelly discuss a study which explored older Irish peoples’ experience of living with a chronic venous leg ulcer in the community.
Olivia Byrne, MSc, BNS (HONS), RGN, RM, RPHN, RNP is a Public Health Nurse, Health Service Executive West, Galway, Ireland
Marcella Kelly MSc, BSc (HONS), RGN, RM, HV, RPHN is a Public Health Nurse Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway
Article accepted for publication: July 2010
Marcella Kelly discusses a phenomenological study which looks at the experience of being an Irish preceptor public health nurse.
Marcella Kelly RGN, RM, RPHN, RNT, BSc, MSc is a Lecturer and Programme Director PG Dip in Nursing (Public Health Nursing).
Article accepted for publication: March 2011
