Outreaching

Article Abstract:

Nurses are calling for a greater understanding of prostitutes and their health requirements. Women who work as prostitutes have a right to confidential health care without feeling ashamed but many feel that they are not treated with the same respect as other patients. Denise Barnett, Anglia Polytechnic's nursing rsearch fellow, thinks that working women should be provided with special and accessible services. One example of this is the Praed Street Project at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, which now runs 5 prostitutes' clinics a week, plus a drop-in centre. The clinic also provides outreach workers who go on to the streets offering health-care information and condoms to the women.

Management, Community health services, Prostitutes

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Given the choice; organ donation, organ recipients

Article Abstract:

The parents of a three-year-old boy who agreed to donate his liver, heart valves, kidneys and corneas after he was killed by a car, have no regrets about allowing his organs to be used for transplants. However the boy's mother feels that an anonymous message of thanks from the parents of the children who received her son's organs would have helped. A 29-year-old man whose life was transformed after he underwent a liver transplant in 1987, is eternally grateful to the donor of his liver. The man, who had suffered from cryptogenic cirrhosis, feels he has been given a new life.

Case studies, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, Donation of organs, tissues, etc., Tissue donation

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Coping with coping

Article Abstract:

The Princess of Wales has highlighted the need for support for women at charity, Turning Point's conference, June 1993. Women are susceptible to depression caused by strain from being the primary carers. The Royal College of Psychiatrists has also recognised the problem with training for health workers in identifying stress-related illness. Nursing Counsellor, Meg Barham considers the problem relevant to nurses who may be unwilling to admit they cannot cope.

Women, Caregivers, Women's health

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