The District Nurses Make a Wish
The District Nurses Make a Wish

Author: Annie Groves

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780750549196

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For the district nurses of Victory Walk, there's been little time to bask in the triumph of D-Day. London faces a new threat - the terrifying V-1 flying bombs which can strike anywhere out of the blue. New nurse Iris must adjust not only to living in the shadow of the doodlebugs, but also to working alongside her new colleagues: since arriving from the countryside she's struggled to fit in with the city nurses. Meanwhile, Alice has an agonising wait to hear if her boyfriend Joe has survived the invasion. She can barely sleep for wondering if he ever received her letter in which she promised to wait for him. With the end of the war almost in sight, the district nurses must dig deep if they are to keep going.

The Changing Shape of Nursing Practice
The Changing Shape of Nursing Practice

Author: Davina Allen

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780415216487

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Six episodes of cynicism, self preservation and bare-faced cheek as Fletcher takes on the Slade prison system.

The Future of Nursing
The Future of Nursing

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2011-02-08

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 0309208955

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The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

Dementia Studies
Dementia Studies

Author: Anthea Innes

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009-03-05

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0857026658

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What is dementia? How should we organize dementia care? This comprehensive book critically examines the main approaches to understanding dementia (bio-medical, social-psychological and socio-gerontological) and the main principles and ideologies of care. The book: • provides clarity on the gap between the utopian aspirations of care and the reality of care • opens up a series of questions about knowledge and treatment of dementia • argues for a transition from positions that place emphasis upon the individual or particular care services to the social, cultural and economic context Lively, informative and challenging, the book will be of interest to students of nursing, sociology of health & illness, social work and social gerontology. Anthea Innes teaches at the Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling