Margaret Barnett discusses the responsibility of health care professionals to provide patients/clients with accurate, evidence based information & education to enable informed choices of treatment and care & offers some practical advice
Margaret Barnett RN, MSc, COPD Dip. is COPD Specialist Nurse, Team Leader Plymouth PCT
Article accepted for publication: December 2009
William Bryans gives health professionals an insight into how efficiency savings can be implemented.
William Bryans is the author of Managing in Health and Social Care: essential checklists for frontline staff; Resource Management in Health and Social Care; Practical Budget Management in Health and Social Care, Radcliffe Publishing
Article accepted for publication: November 2009
Excellence in Practice Awards 2009 runner up – Helen Lloyd discusses the extended role of community nurses delivering chemotherapy in the community setting
Helen Lloyd, RGN, BSc(Hons) Tissue Viabilty, is a community nurse at East Riding of Yorkshire PCT
Barbara Corney states the case for an all graduate nursing profession
Barbara Corney, MSc, PG Dip., BSc (Hons), DPSN, RGN. Case Manager, Bradford Teaching PCT.
Excellence in Practice Awards 2009 runner up – Amy Cray presents a literature review on the effectiveness of honey dressings on infected wounds.
Amy Cray RN Dip, BA (Hons) is a Staff Nurse, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.
In the first of 3 articles, Kim Young & Linda Duggan discuss how community & district nurses can develop their history taking skills when assessing patient/client needs.
Kim Young. MSc, PGCE, RN (Adult), NT, Dip HE Nursing (Adult) is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing & Health Studies
Linda Duggan. MSc, BSc (Hons), Dip HE (District Nursing), RN, DN, NT is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing and Prescribing
Both authors work at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Truro
Article accepted for publication: November 2009
