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April 2020 saw the development of two ‘hot hubs’ in Lewisham, at opposite ends of the borough, to which patients with a COVID-suspected diagnosis were referred. Our local primary care federation, One...
Capital Nurse is a time limited initiative for all nurses in London, running from 2015 until 2020 funded by Health Education England (HEE), NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement. The Capital Nurse...
Myriad of definitions exist that seek to describe the term coaching. These include Milner et al, (2018) who argue that coaching is a skillset that requires dialogue between a coach and the person or...
You were excluded from the NHS Pension if employed as a practice nurse before September 1997. The effect upon your retirement prospects depends on how many years you missed out on the NHS scheme, and...
Recruitment into primary care remains slow with the number of nurses wanting to make the move out of the acute and community sectors generally outweighing the ability of general practice teams to...
In the report a Voice to Lead (ICN, 2017), Dr Li Xiuhua, President of the Chinese Nursing Association, opines that nursing leaders should collaboratively create a longstanding sustainable development...
When making efforts to reduce health inequalities this means that everybody has to be provided with the same opportunities so that they are able to lead a healthy life, regardless of where they live...
S = Serious. Have I excluded the serious, must-not-miss, causes for this symptom?.
The first step in safety-netting involves a formal, holistic assessment of whether it is appropriate to send the patient home to monitor themselves, rather than arranging for the patient to undergo a...
Dewey (1897) strongly advocates the idea that learning occurs when individuals are immersed in participation (‘situated learning’) and this is at the heart of Lave and Wenger's (1991) work and...
Contemporary nursing practice is now the focus of global governments, as evidenced in the Nursing Now Campaign (Crisp and Iro, 2018), and as 2020 is the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife (WHO, 2019b),...
Point nine of The Code states:.
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