£3,000 scholarships on offer for nurses who care for people with dementia [0.03%]
为护理痴呆症患者的护士提供3000英镑奖学金
Nurses who care for people with dementia could be awarded scholarships up to the value of £3,000 to help improve patient care and promote their own professional development.
Compression therapy is the base for managing chronic venous ulceration and may need to be continued for life. This study used focus groups to explore the patient's experience of using compression bandaging.
Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) produces brief stroke-like symptoms due to temporary disruption of blood to the brain. It is characterised by focal symptoms, specific to one location or function, lasting less than 24 hours. TIAs are a warn...
Ruth Sander
Ruth Sander
Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders. Hips and knees are the most frequently affected sites; pain and impairment in these weight-bearing joints can seriously hinder mobility and lead to disability in older...
For the NHS and local authorities to run nursing homes makes perfect sense, says Ruth Sander, but this is not a new idea [0.03%]
伦特·桑德说，鉴于目前的状况，由国民医疗服务系统和地方行政机关经营疗养院是再明智不过了，但这并不是一个新的想法。
Ruth Sander
Ruth Sander
In the early 1980s the predecessor to the Department of Health funded the development of three NHS nursing homes and appointed a team from Newcastle University to evaluate them.
With the population ageing there is an increasing interest in how to age 'successfully' but there is no consensus about what this actually means or how it can be measured. This study compared different models of successful ageing including.
The aim of this study was to increase uderstanding of the nature of care at home for people with dementia.
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Patient-centred care is a phrase so embedded in health care that it is difficult to imagine a time when it was not a part of nursing culture. The man responsible for inventing it was interviewed recently in BMA News (Jan 6), the membership ...
Alzheimer's disease is characterised by memory disorders but this study supports the view that attention deficit is also present in the earliest stages of the disease. There are several different aspects to attention; selective attention is...
This study reports on the results of a questionnaire about the coverage of dementia in pre-registration courses for health and social care professionals. Results showed that coverage within the mental health branch of nursing is highly vari...