Community Health Nursing
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The lived experience of community nurses treating clients with leg ulcers.

30 Aug 2009 Chronic leg ulceration impacts negatively on the quality of life of the sufferer and has financial implications for the economy. Government health policy aims to tackle long-term conditions and restructure services from acute to community care. ... Read more...

Wound care teams: redesigning community nursing services.

30 Aug 2009 A pioneering community-based multi-disciplinary wound care team, working alongside a tissue viability service, developed within East Lancashire teaching PCT. The drive to push the nurse-led wound care agenda forward requires powerful champions to ... Read more...

The swine flu, advice giving and the reporting of adverse drug reactions.

30 Aug 2009 The swine flu pandemic has gripped the headlines over the summer and its management in the UK is proving to be controversial. The government's advice to issue anti-virals to people of all ages with flu-like symptoms runs contrary to World Health ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Community Health Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The lived experience of community nurses treating clients with leg ulcers. 30 Aug 2009
• Wound care teams: redesigning community nursing services. 30 Aug 2009
• The swine flu, advice giving and the reporting of adverse drug reactions. 30 Aug 2009
• Structured patient education: the X-PERT Programme. 30 Aug 2009
• The role of community nurses in providing a seamless patient pathway. 30 Aug 2009
• Municipal night nurses' experience of the meaning of caring. 30 Aug 2009
• [Between emotional engagement and professional distance. The "kangaroos" are Germany's first KTQ certified pediatric nursing care] 30 Aug 2009
• Effect of timing of first postnatal care home visit on neonatal mortality in Bangladesh: a observational cohort study. 12 Aug 2009
• Health visiting: a critical service. 30 Jul 2009
• NHS must go the extra mile. 30 Jul 2009
• Man about the house. 30 Jul 2009
• [Nurses deliver quality care in the community nurses deliver quality care in the community] 30 Jul 2009
• [Being personal: the development of community psychiatric mental health nursing] 30 Jul 2009
• [Promotion of and reflections on the professional image of community health nurses] 30 Jul 2009
• [Community health nursing development: answering the ICN call] 30 Jul 2009
• Perceptions of the relationship between mental health professionals and family caregivers: has there been any change? 30 Jul 2009
• No effect on survival of home psychosocial intervention in a randomized study of Danish colorectal cancer patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Applied epidemiology for public health and community-based nurses. 30 Jul 2009
• The QNI is open-minded when it comes to social enterprise. 30 Jul 2009
• Stoma care nursing management: cost implications in community care. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Community Health Nursing'

Definition: General and comprehensive nursing practice directed to individuals, families, or groups as it relates to and contributes to the health of a population. This is not an official program of a Public Health Department.

Descriptor UI: D003152

Alternative terms: Community Health Nursing; Nursing, Community Health; Community Health Nursings; Health Nursing, Community; Health Nursings, Community; Nursings, Community Health; Visiting Nurses; Nurse, Visiting; Nurses, Visiting; Visiting Nurse; Health Visitors; Health Visitor; Visitor, Health; Visitors, Health;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.478.676.150; N02.421.143.150;

History Note: 77(75); was see under COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES 1975-76

Technical Notes: SPEC qualif; do not confuse with PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING (a government function)