Clinical Comment
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‘Why is the nurse never considered a potential sexual assault survivor?’
Olivia Shaw on how nurses can be sexual assault survivors and may sometimes need to protect their own recovery process.
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‘There are concerns that Covid-19 infection could cause diabetes’
Linda Nazarko on the risks of Covid-19 infection in relation to diabetes.
‘Home health and care workers regularly experience second-hand tobacco smoke exposure’
Dr Nicola Roberts on health professionals' exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke.
‘A prison sentence is not a sentence to poor health and social care’
Julia Russell looks at initiatives that aim to improve palliative and end-of-life care behind bars.
‘We need to support ward managers to spend more time on the wards’
Linda Nazarko on how nurses can support managers to spend more time with patients on wards.
‘Staff need to be supported through regular robust supervision’
Sharin Baldwin and Karen Dobor on how the ‘Hole in the Ground’ reflective practice supervision tool can help health visitors and other healthcare staff.
‘From outputs to impact of the professional nurse advocate programme’
Liz Lees-Deutsch, Emma Wadey and Rosie Kneafsey on the impact of the professional nurse advocate programme.
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From the editor
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‘Lessons from lockdown and the pandemic must be learnt’
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‘More must be done to stop abuse against healthcare staff’
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‘There is more work to be done to raise awareness of encephalitis’
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‘Ask Nursing Times can help you find what you want on our website’
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‘Good-quality preceptorship for new nurses is essential’
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‘Happy fifth birthday to the nursing associate role’
Ingrid Fuchs: Series
In this series of blogs, clinical nurse specialist Ingrid Fuchs wrote about her own cancer journey, sharing her experience of being diagnosed and treated for triple-negative breast cancer, a less common form of breast cancer that is harder to treat. She hoped that talking about her experience would offer new insights, both for herself as a patient and practitioner, and for other clinical nurse specialists.
Clinical nurse specialist Ingrid Fuchs shared her own cancer journey following a triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis.
Dementia Care: Series
In this series of blogs, carer Andrew Swindells invites us to follow his family's experiences with his Mum's vascular dementia. An Admiral Nurse then reflects on his piece, to offer brief guidance on the issues raised and how nurses can support carers and families in similar situations.
Latest blog: A mental health inpatient admission came as a huge shock for the family, but the tailored interventions helped Mum find peace, says carer Andrew Swindells.
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