In the first of two articles Peter Pettit & Sandy Tinson look at dealing with complaints from service users and the implications for community nurses.
Vivien Ogden describes the need for collaboration between community nurses, doctors and chiropodists in order to offer optimum foot care to elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.
Sue Thomas and Dr Doug MacMahon discuss the skills needed by nurses to enable them to identify and address the needs of patients with Parkinson's disease.
In their second article Peter Pettit and Sandy Tinson look at dealing with complaints from service users and the implications for community nurse educators.
Jan Hammett gives a descriptive account about how a series of ten palliative care workshops highlighted the need for more accessible education in the field of palliative care.
Vicky Wilson describes a qualitative research study designed to measure if district nurses are meeting the needs of families caring for terminally ill cancer patients at home.
