Moores to the point
Article Abstract:
Chief nursing officer designate Yvonne Moores sees the development of nursing, midwifery and health-visiting practice as an important priority when she takes up her new position at the Dept of Health. So as not to loose touch with what is happening in the health service, Moores intends to continue with her occasional practical work on the ward and in the community. Stressing the need for much more dialogue between nurses and general managers, Moores says that nurses must be provided with the necessary tools and methodology to enable them to describe their requirements for nursing to general managers.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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Bedding down
Article Abstract:
The Audit Commission for Local Authorities has made recommendations in a 1992 report for improved management of hospital beds. Admission practices need to be improved. The practice of discharging patients only when consultants have visited wards, twice weekly, results in unnecessarily long stays. Communication with family doctors need to be improved. The plans could result in beds being cut by nearly a third. Nurses are concerned because little attention is given by the commission to patients' nursing requirements, since 41% of patients in an Audit Commission survey needed such care.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1992
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Partners in care
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The daughter of an elderly carer describes the continuing support her mother received from Moseley Hall hospital while she was caring for her disabled husband. Her mother was offered regular respite care, an emergency call-out service, volunteers came to allow her to go out, and nursing assistants helped to wash and care for her disabled husband. The hospital now has a Carer Support Unit which can take 16 patients. The support may be expensive but is is a life-line to carers who would not manage to care on their own.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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