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Type 2 diabetes: an update for community nurses
WEBDiabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterised by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar), which over time, can lead to serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves. Type 1 diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces …
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British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBDiabetes is a well known condition which can result in significant morbidity and mortality. The World Health Organisation recommends sharing the care of diabetes between primary and specialist teams, using referrals through primary to secondary to tertiary care.Research clearly highlights that an early diagnosis, along with effective …
The challenge of infection control in patients' homes
WEBEffective hand hygiene remains one of the cornerstones of good infection control. Since its conception in 1979, the, originally six-, now seven-stage, handwashing technique (World Health Organization (WHO), 2009) has proved very effective at decontaminating hands, whether used with soap and water or decontaminating hand …
British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been rapid expansion of the community nursing caseload. Many of the specialist services have reduced or withdrawn face-to-face care to enable the vulnerable to shield, and ambulatory care services, such as treatment rooms, were closed. These factors, combined with increased volume of …
British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBAbstract. Digital health was given impetus by the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrated its potential for the delivery of safe care in the community. Remote monitoring and virtual wards are becoming mainstreamed across the UK. Artificial intelligence (AI) software has the potential to transform healthcare delivery but its trustworthiness is a key
Community nursing placements: student learning experiences …
WEBOne area that has continued to raise particular challenges in community nursing is maintaining the level of student learning capacity, supervision and assessment to the extent of pre-pandemic levels. Pre-registration nursing students enjoy a wealth of learning during community placements, develop invaluable knowledge and skills and …
Building a community nursing research community of practice
WEBMost health and social care is provided to adults at home and in care homes. The need for community nursing has rapidly risen during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 41% increase in people dying at home (O'Donnell et al, 2021), and many more people have experienced conditions and health issues requiring community nursing …
Diabetes Management and the Role of the Community Nurse: a …
WEBIt is estimated that 4.9 million people are now living with diabetes in the UK. This is equivalent to one in 14 people, with diabetes registrations almost doubling in the last 15 years and an estimated 850 000 people in England living with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes (Diabetes UK, 2022).Every week, diabetes leads to more than 184 …
An overview of the role of the district nurse caring for individuals
WEBAbstract. The role of the district nurse is imperative in the care of patients in a district nursing team's caseload. Through the role of care manager, district nurses are accountable for the overall coordination of the care patients receive.
British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBAdherence is defined as the extent to which the individual's behaviour or actions match the recommendations agreed with their health professional (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), 2009). Non-adherence is a major barrier to the effective delivery of healthcare, and it is estimated that adherence to treatments for long …
British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has put the NHS under unprecedented pressures, although it could be argued that the NHS was already working under extreme demands to meet the needs of an ever-changing population while striving to achieve quality care (West et al, 2020).This article explores how community nursing teams can use strategies to …
Challenges and opportunities: the role of the district nurse in
WEBThe need to create a workforce that can deliver high-quality community care, meet commissioning requirements as well as address the shortage of qualified DNs, has been apparent for long, with calls for transforming nursing education into the new DN apprenticeship route (Henderson and Hassmiller, 2007; Benner et al, 2010; Institute for …
Exploring the delivery of end-of-life care by community nurses
WEBCommunity nursing services across the UK have faced unprecedented pressures both before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, including the provision of palliative and EOLC (Mitchell et al, 2021). It has been projected that in Scotland, there will be a 20% increase in the number of people requiring palliative care by 2040 (Finucane …
A new tool to measure acuity in the community: a case study
WEBThis paper uses a case study approach to present a new method of measuring this important concept. Accurate measurement of acuity and dependency within all areas of healthcare is an important component of clinical governance and is directly linked with patient safety ( Griffiths et al, 2020 ). There are validated approaches to the …
British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBIn the past decade, national health and social care policy drivers have redirected the onus of care away from acute settings and firmly back into the community, with the aim of caring for patients in or near to their own homes while maintaining safety and, where possible, avoiding hospital admission (Department of Health and Social …
British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBFor those people who would like to stop smoking, nurses can play a key role, with nurse prescribers helping deliver life-changing treatment. In a recent audit carried out by the British Thoracic Society (BTS) (2022), nearly 80% of people were asked about their smoking status.However, only 45% were then given the briefest of advice, 15% were …
Psychological factors and intermittent self-catheterisation
WEBIntermittent self-catheterisation (ISC) is considered a highly effective way to manage urinary incontinence issues, and, as stated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2015), it is considered the gold standard for urine drainage.. ISC is mostly used for voiding problems that result from disturbances or injury to the nervous …
British Journal of Community Nursing
WEBApproximately 13% of all NHS patients are catheterised (Shackley et al, 2017), and, in England, there are 90 000 patients with long-term catheters in the community (Gage et al, 2017).Because of the high prevalence of catheterised patients on a district nurse team's caseload, catheterisation is an essential skill for all community nurses, no …
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