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Impact of stress on nurses working in the district nursing service

The PICOT tool was used to aid in formation of the research question (Aveyard, 2019). Systematic searches were conducted in six databases: British Nursing Index (BNI), Cumulative Index of Nursing and...

District nurses' experiences with a caseload profiling tool: a service evaluation

Within the Scottish context, the method to measure, monitor and resource DN caseloads is based on the principles of workload analysis, and workload is measured on the basis of subjective...

Aims, actions and advance care planning by district nurses providing palliative care: an ethnographic observational study

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the district nurse in palliative care provision, with a particular focus on observational exploration of their role and practice in providing...

Falls and older people: preventative interventions

This programme comprises 30 minutes of leg muscle strengthening and balance retraining exercises that progress in difficulty and are performed at home at least three times per week, together with...

Being conductor of the orchestra: an exploration of district nursing leadership

Since the Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978, there has been a paradigm shift in thinking about health (World Health Organization (WHO), 2008). This has been evident in integrating health and social care...

Verification of expected death in the community: role of the community specialist practitioner

Importantly, it should be noted that nurse-led verification of expected death is not intended to replace GP verification, but enables nurses to extend the care of those patients who are on the...

Implementing an adapted Buurtzorg model in an inner city NHS trust

The Dutch Buurtzorg organisation is a social enterprise that uses a patient-centred model of care combined with self-managing teams of visiting nurses. The central principles in the patient-centred...

Employers' duty of care to district nursing team members: health and safety concerns with lone domiciliary visits

‘A huge number of staff are working in, frankly, unacceptable and unsafe conditions. I believe that must impact particularly on nurses, because of their role in the front line, being professionally...

Getting anticipatory prescribing right in end-of-life care

The Department of Health and Social Care (2012) developed ‘Vision and strategy: an approach to district nursing’, building upon the six Cs (care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and...

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