Patricia McDermott explores the health care professionals role in promoting conservative rehabilitative treatment strategies that may be effective in the treatment of genuine stress urinary incontinence
Patricia McDermott is a Clinical Nurse Specialist Continence/Urology Community Services Department Castel Hospital La Neuve Rue Castel, Guernsey
Article accepted for publication: February 2010
Mark Gagan is a Senior Lecturer, Bournemouth University School of Health and Social Care.
Dr Omorogieva Ojo discusses the findings of a small study which evaluated the effectiveness of a home enteral nutrition nursing team
Dr. Omorogieva Ojo PhD, RPHNutr. is Acting Service Lead, Home Enteral Nutrition Team, Lewisham Primary Care Trust
Article accepted for publication: January 2010
Acknowledgements: I wish to acknowledge the support provided by Vikki-Rose Brown in developing the nutrition nursing review criteria.
Edwin Tapiwa Chamanga discusses the use of the Waterlow assessment tool in wound management
Edwin Tapiwa Chamanga RGN, BSc (Hons), (BSc Hons) Specialist Community Practice (District Nursing), currently reading for an MSc Skin integrity skills and treatments is a Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, City and Hackney Primary Care Trust, London
Article accepted for publication: September 2009
Acknowledgement: The author would like to acknowledge the contribution of Mr. Prince Sunkwa-Mills, a student in MSc Health Informatics, who assisted in some of the research for this article.
In their second article Kim Young & Linda Duggan examine the identification of ‘red flags’ when undertaking a history& address ‘safety-netting’
Kim Young MSc, PGCE, RN, NT, Dip HE Nursing 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 & Prescribing.
Both authors are employed at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth.
Article accepted for publication: March 2010
Morag McKenzie discusses the use of compression therapy for a variety of leg ulcers
Morag McKenzie RGN, BSc Community Health Nursing, PG Dip Wound Healing & Tissue Repair is a District Nurse, Ormiston, Lothian Health Board, Scotland,
Article accepted for publication: December 2009