Community nurses often work in isolation and are not always able to attend best practice updates in venous leg ulcer treatment. As a result, they do not always possess the up-to-date knowledge and skills to manage these patients. This project reached out to local ways of delivering compression therapy; in this case an adjustable Velcro compression device, juxtacures (juxtacures®; medi UK). The juxtacures range is designed to be simple to apply with a built-in pressure system that allows the nurse to accurately monitor the level of compression being applied to the limb. This ensures a therapeutic level of compression is maintained. The authors felt and skill level in compression bandaging. The aims of the project were to reduce the amount and duration of community nursing visits to patients with venous leg ulcers while ensuring that safe, visits to patients with lower limb problems, with some patients successfully discharged to self-manage their lower limbs.
In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your practice.
Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at the wealth of information provided about dementia and asks the question...
Working in a large organisation like the NHS means that patients’ voices can be forgotten. JCN speaks to Anu Singh of NHS England about how to keep the lines of communication open...
The quality of nutrition provision in nursing homes can often seem like an afterthought. Natalie Welsh, a nutrition specialist nurse at Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, explains how we can improve...
The referendum to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union is being held on Thursday 23 June, 2016 and we all have a vote. But what does this mean for the NHS and, most importantly, what effect will this have on nurses and the current recruitment crisis?
At the Cavell Nurses’ Trust, we believe you are all heroes. The care, compassion and courage shown by nurses in the UK every day is staggering and very humbling to those of us not involved directly in nursing.
In the UK there are currently tens of thousands of blind and visionimpaired ex-servicemen and women battling sight loss without the specialist support available to them from charities like Blind Veterans UK.
Here at The Brain Tumour Charity, we have two main goals: to double brain tumour survival and halve the harm caused by the disease. These goals are urgently needed and yet, for those living with a brain tumour, they must seem a distant dream.
One of the commonest autoimmune conditions, coeliac disease is an immune-mediated condition that is triggered by the ingestion of gluten in those who have a genetic susceptibility and can result in intestinal inflammation and irritation. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. Coeliac disease has a prevalence in England of 1%, with a diagnosed prevalence of 0.24% (West et al, 2014). It is estimated that 75% of coeliac disease is undiagnosed and the condition is often misdiagnosed by healthcare professionals, with one in four people with coeliac disease having previously been treated for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) (Card et al, 2013).
