Theatre nursing takes centre stage
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The role of a theatre nurse has changed as a result of technological developments. According to Bernadette Browning, an H-grade clinical nurse specialist at Law Hospital, Scotland, involved in theatre nursing, pain control and intensive care, the work is interesting, challenging and satisfying. According to Bernie Country, who has a specialist practitioner degree and works as a practice development nurse in the education department of Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, developments resulting from a change in the age of patients and changes in procedures result in work remaining interesting.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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Building confidence by profiling
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Nurse Colette Rawcliffe describes her experience of keeping a personal profile. Rawcliffe found her introduction to personal profiling during an Enrolled Nurse Conversion Programme daunting, but her confidence grew and she went on to develop her own personal and professional profiles. She has maintained these profiles for five years, and believes they have improved her confidence and proved an invaluable aid to professional reflection and improvement. She keeps documents in subdivided binders and reference information on a card index.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1997
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Home parenteral nutrition
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About 4300 patients living at home in the United Kingdom receive enteral or parenteral nutrition. Although they do not all reside near major hospital centres which cater for their specific diseases they can still live safely at home providing they have adequate support. After leaving hospital it is vital that patients are able to manage their own care regime which should be planned according to their lifestyle. A self-help group called Patients on Intravenous and Nasogastric Nutrition Therapy (PINNT) offers support.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1996
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