The code and the community nurse: practising effectively

The Code and the community nurse: prioritising people

Fitness to practise in community nursing

The Health and Care Act 2022 and community nursing

The ultimate paradox: navigating the personal and professional contradictions of assisted dying

In terms of the ethical challenges encountered by nurses in assisted dying, lessons can be learnt from other countries where medically assisted death has been legalised, such as Canada, New Zealand...

Ethics and community nursing

The Equality Act 2010 and the community nurse

Co-production and the community nurse

Over the last few years, co-production has increasingly become a more prominent term used by the UK health service to describe partnership working with patients. Community nurses, because of the...

Legal aspects of dying and the community nurse

Dying is an inevitable part of life; the dying process has for many years been a medicalised process, and to a greater extent, the law has been shaped by the medical approach to death and dying. To...

Legal duty of care and the community nurse

Important legal principles of consent and mental capacity

The right to consent to (and refuse) treatment is a fundamental right that has been established in law for a significant period of time (Jackson, 2022). In the UK, the case of Chatterton v Gerson...

The law in relation to safeguarding and the community nurse

Safeguarding is an important consideration for all nurses, especially community nurses who are best placed to identify safeguarding risks while visiting patients at home. The first key principle in...