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· Assessing the most clinically and cost effective method of closing skin after surgical procedures
Non-absorbable and slowly absorbed sutures are often used to close wounds. The results of aliterature review and economic assessment challenged these methods
· Costs can be cut by providing high quality training in leg ulcer care
Leg ulcer care is complex, and a lack of understanding by managers and funders about its management can cause unnecessary costs and harm care, says Irene Anderson
· Equity and excellence: measuring the quality of wound care and tissue viability services
Effectiveness of care provision must be demonstrated in the new NHS. Practice must be aligned to priorities for quality and true measurements of care recorded
· How to manage bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in under-16s
A member of the NICE guideline development group highlights the important issues from the latest evidence based guideline for Nursing Times readers
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If you were stuck in a hole, wouldn't you be sad?
Some friends and I once made up a game called “Worst case scenarios”. We would compare our fears and then try to work out how we would cope should they be realised. For me it was waking up and finding I had been transported to the top of Nelson’s Column.
· Motivational interviewing 2: how to apply this approach in general nursing practice
Health promotion is a vital part of both preventing and managing long term conditions. Nurses can use the technique to promote behaviour change
· Nurse bonuses for clinical excellence considered
A bonus scheme for nurses has been mooted by a national committee led by senior clinicians, including chief nursing officer for England
· Nurse retirement could create staff crisis
· Nurses need 'right attitudes', says minister
Care services minister Paul Burstow has called on nurse managers to ensure staff have the “right attitudes” to meet the aspirations of the white paper.
· Students flock to nursing courses
Some 23,000 students snapped up places on nursing courses within a week of their A level results being published, despite recruitment freezes in the NHS.
· The Awkward Feeling campaign: confronting poor hand hygiene to improve handwashing
A student workshop identified that a new system of ‘supporting, shaming and blaming’ would encourage healthcare professionals to wash their hands
· Voluntary pay-off scheme could lead to nurse exodus
Nurses and other NHS staff are being given until the end of October to decide whether they want to leave their jobs in exchange for up to a year’s salary.
· White paper will reduce the NHS to a mere brand name
Throughout the general election campaign, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats promised the NHS would be safe in their hands. There would be no more top down decisions, we were told by the leaders of what is now the coalition government.
