Weight management in pregnancy

UK data shows that 4.93% of women start pregnancy underweight, 25.88% start pregnancy overweight and 15.61% start pregnancy obese

The role of advanced nurse practitioners

The role of the nurse in the UK continues to develop in response to the changing healthcare needs of our population and the challenges that these present. These challenges include: an aging population, many of whom feel isolated; an increase in the incidence and prevalence of long term conditions, growing public demand, an increase in…
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Nursing in Practice Training

With the motivation a New Year brings and nurse revalidation on the horizon, what better time to refresh your clinical knowledge? Nursing in Practice is here to help with training days With improved healthcare, lifestyle choices and longer life expectancy, patients are increasingly presented with a number of clinical conditions, making their holistic care more…
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The basics of clinical supervision

The concept of clinical supervision is not new, having been well established for many years in a number of disciplines across the healthcare professions, including mental health and midwifery – but clinicians are often unsure about the basics including what it is and how they might implement it for themselves. In the current climate of…
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Telecare and telehealth: benefits and barriers

Pioneers and policy makers claim telehealth is the solution to solving the management of long-term conditions; but the advice is to ‘keep it simple.’ Community nurse-led telecare and telehealth projects throughout the UK are transforming the treatment of patients with long-term conditions (LTCs). Most are small scale and few have been adopted into mainstream services…
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Managing telephone assessment and triage

Practices are being expected to do more with the same or fewer resources. Effectively managing same-day appointments is becoming more important than ever, and nursing teams are being expected to play an ever greater role, say Jeremy Dale and Lynn Shrimpton. One in five GP consultations involve minor ailments that patients could treat themselves –…
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Communication – how can we improve our skills?

Communication is a vital skill for the nurse, but in this age of increased technology use and high-level skills, it can be forgotten. Donna Davenport calls for communication to be put back on top of all our professional agendas A recent visit to hospital to see a close friend following surgery for bowel cancer made…
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