Journal of clinical nursing
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To identify nurses' beliefs about health promotion and its delivery in routine care of people aged over 65 years. ⋯ With an increasing older population nurses need to be confident and proficient at implementing health promotion to patients aged over 65 years. This survey demonstrates that nurses need more training and support to achieve this.
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To explore partnership in care with a small sample of children's nurses in an inner city trust. (i) To obtain local data on what a sample of children's nurses understand by partnership in care and to what degree partnership in care is evident in their practice; (ii) where feasible, to compare these data with national and international literatures describing partnership in care and provide pointers that will be useful in contributing and responding to the children's national service framework. ⋯ Attitudes, respect for the family and communication should improve to enhance the practice of partnership in care. Respect for the child and family and communication have both been identified as important qualities within the new National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services. Further research is suggested to determine the applicability of these findings to other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
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This paper aims to add to nurses' knowledge concerning the losses and emotional labour family caregivers face caring for people living with neurodegenerative, life-limiting illnesses such as motor neurone disease. ⋯ Nurses can be independent confidants who share the emotional labour and work with caregivers to develop interventions to assist them to manage their losses and their changing needs for psychological and emotional support.