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The article reports that nurses could take a greater role in reducing clinical risk for patients by responding promptly to patient safety alerts. Researchers evaluated how the alerts were managed in NHS (National Health Service) organisations and whether they resulted in safer practice. They found that the decision about the relevance and dissemination of alerts was often taken by a single individual and that alerts disseminated on paper were frequently unread.

Employers are to be given responsibility for ensuring staff keep up professional standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the expanded title of health and social care secretary given to Department of Health secretary Jeremy Hunt in Great Britain. The extended title is said to reflect the increased focus on social care by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May. Social care pressures have contributed to the winter healthcare crisis facing the National Health Service, as of January 2018.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to a comment from the commons public accounts committee chairman Margaret Hodge regarding the consultation paper "No Voice Unheard, No Right Ignored" in the April 1, 2015 issue.

Why you should read this article: • To understand the clinical indications for colonoscopy • To refresh your knowledge of the procedure for patient consent to colonoscopy • To update your understanding of the bowel preparation required before colonoscopy Colonoscopy is an invasive, endoscopic procedure undertaken to visualise the inner lumen of the colon and is used for a variety of diagnostic purposes. The procedure is increasingly performed by nurse endoscopists. This article provides an overview of the indications and contraindications for colonoscopy and describes various elements of the procedure, including consent, sedation and bowel preparation within the context of the evidence base. The article also discusses patient care before, during and after the procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains a controversial treatment. While practices are much changed from the 1950s and 60s, when it was used without anaesthetic and often without consent, there are still those who believe it should have no role in 21st century healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the view of the Trades Union Congress in the report "Building Worker Power," published in July 2022, that the system is stacked against staff who want to campaign for fairer conditions, with employers given ample opportunities to silence workers' voices. Topics include the low record of trade union membership in the United Kingdom, comments from Royal College of Nursing (RCN) head of organising Stephanie Goodwin, and what organising can achieve.

'You must be raking it in,' a friend said the other day, giving me a knowing wink. 'Raking it in?' I shrieked. It was in the papers (well it would be, wouldn't it?) that agency nurses are earning hundreds of pounds an hour and this person had made the wrong assumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why you should read this article: • To enhance your knowledge of the regulations and policies regarding the storage, collection and delivery of blood components for transfusion • To understand the procedures for collecting and returning blood components • To recognise how to minimise the risk of adverse events, including handling and storage errors Rationale and key points: There are several steps in the transfusion process that aim to ensure the correct blood component is given to the correct patient at the correct time. Ensuring the correct blood component is collected for the correct patient is crucial to safe transfusion practice and patient safety. This article explains the blood component collection and delivery procedure in the UK and outlines the steps that are necessary to enable nurses to collect blood components safely. Nurses in other countries can access their local guidelines and protocols and review these against the guidelines outlined in this article. • All nurses involved in the collection or administration of blood components must understand safe transfusion practice and the important steps in ensuring patient safety. • Collection of blood components must only be undertaken by trained healthcare professionals who have been assessed as competent by a trained assessor. • It is important to understand the types of handling and storage errors that can occur due to human error during the blood components collection procedure. Reflective activity: How to articles can help to update your practice and ensure it remains evidence based. Apply this article to your practice. Reflect on and write a short account of: • How you think this article has increased your knowledge and understanding of the blood component collection procedure. • How you could use this resource to practice safely and inform others on the safe collection of blood components for transfusion, in conjunction with local training and competency assessments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Voting papers giving RCN members the chance to vote on the government's plans to change public sector pensions will be sent out within days. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses must have an automatic place on GP consortia boards, the RCN said last week in a briefing paper sent to MPs on the Health and Social Care Bill. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health unions have raised concerns about the future of nurse leadership in England amid plans for a radical shake-up of how the Department of Health (DH) operates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides an overview of the changes of the Trust, Assurance and Safety regulation to the health care industry and to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in Great Britain. Among the changes is the standard of proof in fitness to practice hearings, wherein it will be changed to civil reasonable doubt to the civil standard of on the balance of probabilities. Moreover, the National Health Service Appointments Commission will select the council members rather than the registrants.

The article discusses on nurse staff well-being in the United Kingdom, particularly the need for National Health Service (NHS) employers to establish period policies to help female staff in managing bleeding and pain at work. Also cited are the NHS employers with period policies like the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, and the campaigns by charity group Bloody Good Period for menstrual equity.

The article provides some tips to nurses in Great Britain on how to write an article for publication. It is important to read several journals in order to determine the one that is best suited for the article one is planning to write. The next step is to identify whether the article is academic research, a report of changing practice, or an audit of current practice. References should be used to support claims in the article.

Government claims that there is no longer a shortage of nurses in the UK were questioned at a seminar on nurse recruitment last week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A gastric tube-feeding procedure used routinely in hospitals all over the UK has been dropped after a nurse alerted safety experts to its dangers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that Unison, the country's biggest trade union, is threatening legal action against a National Health Services (NHS) foundation trust in Great Britain. Unison is questioning the delays in rolling out Agenda for Change (AfC) initiative. According to the organization, all NHS staff in England should have received their AfC salaries already.

Presents views and insights to the significance of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) council elections to RCN members in Great Britain. Significance of the duties and responsibilities of RCN members to vote wisely; Contention of the author that one vote can make a difference in the election.

Trusts rapped over 'unfair' procedures after criticism from Commons committee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the plan of pregnant British nursing student Arabella Sinclair Penwarden to take only a few weeks off her nursing diploma course when her baby arrives. Fear of losing bursary payments; Plan to continue writing her assignments.

The article focuses on Great Britain government's plan to train nurses for recognizing mental health and alcohol problems in patients at an early stage. Nurses will be expected to identify mental health problems in children and adult patients, being aware when they are particularly vulnerable. All health professionals will receive training in identifying alcohol problems early, piloting new approaches to targeted screening and brief intervention in the NHS with a particular focus on A&E settings. A campaign to encourage and support sensible drinking will also be supported by the government to tackle the problems of binge drinking.

The article focuses on Great Britain Department of Health's plan to implement £30 million fund to help nurses establish new ways of working. The National Health Service Modemisation Agency will develop a spread and adoption strategy aimed at speeding up the process of disseminating ideas.

Explores the impact of poor information technology systems on the success of the single assessment, a scheme designed to cut procedures that result in multiple care workers all asking patients the same questions in Great Britain. Incompatibility of software to the computer networks of hospitals; Nurses' use of paper copies of the assessment.

When is a 'nurse' not a nurse? Many of us are becoming increasingly concerned at the growing trend of the use of the term nurse to describe a wide range of different workers. These workers have a range of backgrounds and qualifications, but they are still referred to as nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new device is putting information technology in the hands of nurses to improve patient safety by making records more accurate, says Clare Lomas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why you should read this article: • To enhance your knowledge of anal incontinence and its prevalence, symptoms and risk factors • To increase your awareness of the need for early routine screening in groups at high risk of anal incontinence • To access information about current bowel screening tools and how these could be improved Anal incontinence is an unpredictable and debilitating condition that can significantly reduce quality of life. Symptoms include the involuntary loss of solid and/or liquid stool, flatus incontinence and rectal urgency. Pregnancy and childbirth are two major factors that increase the risk of anal incontinence in women of reproductive age. Women at high risk of anal incontinence include those with a known history of the condition and those who have experienced severe perineal trauma, particularly after injury to the anal sphincters (third-degree and fourth-degree tears). Routine screening for anal incontinence of women in high-risk groups during pregnancy and after childbirth appears to be limited in clinical practice. This article discusses the potential benefits of screening for anal incontinence, outlines the factors that inhibit and enable screening, describes current bowel screening tools and their limitations, and explores how the identification of anal incontinence in women of reproductive age could be improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sarah Wray looks at how electronic systems are helping nurses save time and money. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurse researchers remain at the forefront of innovations in patient care while rising to the challenge of a funding squeeze, says Frances Pickersgill. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents 2012 news on medicine. The Royal College of Nursing will issue guidelines on a European Union directive on the prevention and management of sharps injuries among healthcare workers. The agency Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH), has developed a new portal to help health professionals keep up to date with new developments in patient care. The Institute of Healthcare Management has launched a new code of conduct for healthcare managers.

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Developing the Healthcare Workforce, a consultation linked to the white paper Liberating the NHS, sets out new arrangements for the commissioning and funding of healthcare professional education and training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The NHS shake-up will transform the working lives of community staff, writes Rosemary Cook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article the author opines that the decline in the community nursing workforce must be resolved in order for Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) to be successfully reorganized. According to the author, the Labour government failed on its promise to place a specialist school nurse in all of England's secondary schools by 2010. Public health services and the NHS budget are also discussed.

In the article the author reflects on Great Britain's white paper "Liberating the NHS," which plans to give general practitioners (GPs) responsibility for spending 80 billion pounds. The author opines that the government should be cautious with implementing health care reforms. She notes that GPs do not have the specialist skills that are required to correctly spend public money.

The author discusses the use of the "fit note," devised by the British Dept. for Work and Pensions that allows general physicians to help patients return to work before they may be fully recovered from an illness. However, she suggests that, for nurses, the concept of light duty does not have meaning in a busy hospital ward.

Nursing education should lead the way in helping students who are struggling to survive, says Noreen Wainwright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Erin Dean asks leading nurse researchers whether they agree with claims that many studies are irrelevant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A letter to the editor is presented from a reader reacting to a working paper from Skills for Health (tiny.cc/tgbu5x) on creating a high quality health support workforce.

Information about several papers discussed at the Crucial Crew workshop in Great Britain. During the said event, experts discussed several health and safety facts about children's safety. The fire service taught them how to avoid setting their bedrooms alight and the police acted out a drama to warm them of stranger danger

The author reflects on his contribution on the shaping of social policy in Great Britain. He expresses his appreciation for being asked concerning the National Health Service after being ignored for half a century. He mentions his paper titled "The GP Patient Survey," which contains ten questions on how easy he had found in seeing his doctor.

The article reports on developments related to health services in Great Britain. The Florence Nightingale Foundation awarded the Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarships for the travel projects for their applicants that will benefit patients. The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation is a group of practitioners in the public sector that offers mentoring related to health. A conference on "E-learning in Practice" will be held at United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust on September 13, 2006.

It is easy to blame overseas recruitment for the difficulty some newly qualified nurses currently experience findings jobs. But the reality is far more complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mentorship is a two-way street where both parties have duties and responsibilites, says Clare Bennett. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the usefulness of Internet as an educational resource for learning in Great Britain. Contents of bibliographic databases; Description of Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature; Lists of websites available for research.

Looks into the problem of claustrophobia for patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging in Great Britain.

Presents views and opinions of the author with regards to the effort of nursing to work equally with all kinds of people in Great Britain. Views on the ethical principles of non-judgmentalism and equity in caring, regardless of irrelevant distinctions such as age, race, sexuality, social class, or personal history; Assessment of social issues affecting nursing practice; Insights on stamping out bullying in nursing.

This article reports that school nursing services underwent drastic cuts in the mid 1990s in Great Britain. Now, however, they are being recognised and valued by the government for their specialist public health role. School nurses are primary care providers, usually based in primary care trusts (PCT). Their role is proactive health promotion to the school-age population. PCTs and local authorities will now be responsible for staff training. The white paper "Choosing Health," was published in November 2004. Effective co-ordination of services for individual children and schools will make a significant and positive difference to meeting children's health needs.

Philosopher Michel Foucault is widely quoted in academic nursing papers, but do we really understand him? Daniel Allen went on a mission to find out more about the man and his relevance to nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rob Greig leads the government team working to integrate people with learning disabilities into mainstream healthcare service. Terry Philpot reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]