Reminding patients that there's still hope: a nurse-led memory monitoring service is increasing the quality of life of patients with Alzheimer's disease and giving them hope
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Alison Gibbon leds a memory monitoring program at St. Luke's Hospital in Huddersfield, England. The service provides memory testing for elderly patients to diagnose Alzheimer's Disease early and monitors the success of medication to delay memory loss and other dementia symptoms.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2003
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"It's everything I wanted from a job."(Jenny Bramhall, nurse consultant in preoperative assessment in Birmingham, England )
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Jenny Bramhall talks about her position as nursing consultant for preoperative assessment at Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, England. One of the first nursing consultants in the postoperative field, she works to make sure that a patient is prepared for elective surgery.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2003
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Taking the pain out of waiting: skin cancer specialist Gillian Godsell's nurse-led biopsy clinic has reduced waiting times and patient anxiety - and earned her an OBE
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Dermatology nurse Gillian Godsell has won awards and her patient's gratitude for her biopsy clinic for skin cancer. Patients can get a biopsy on the same day they are first seen in the clinic and get the results quickly.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2003
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