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
Maureen Benbow discusses the use of emollients for dry ageing skin
Maureen Benbow MSc BA RGN HERC is a Senior Lecturer, University of Chester
Article accepted for publication: December 2009
Debbie Davies discusses nurse prescribing and the need for continuing professional education from a Welsh perspective
Debbie Davies MSc, RGN, BSc (Hons) Nursing, PGdip DN, PGCE, is Primary Care Quality Nurse Coordinator-Primary Care Quality Information Service-National Public Health Service Wales (NPHS)
Article accepted for publication: October 2009
