Resources

Elaine Hemingway discusses the need for community nurses to work from a transcultural nursing perspective when caring for travellers or nomadic groups.

Topics:  Tradition

Janet MacGregor & Dee Hellings discuss the interface between community paediatric nursing & health visiting from an educational perspective.

Diane Gilmour gives an overview of the principles of aseptic technique.

Alison Briant describes the role of community nurses in raising awareness of breast awareness guidelines.

Topics:  Guidelines

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.