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Post-basic Opportunities for Nurses
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Optimising Health-Related Quality of Life in Children With Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Osteogenesis Imperfecta is a rare, hereditary bone condition with an incidence of 1/15,000–20,000. Symptoms include bone fragility, long bone deformity, scoliosis, hypermobility, alongside secondary features s...
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Open AccessTowards standardization of training and practice of reconstructive microsurgery: an evidence-based recommendation for anastomosis thrombosis prophylaxis
Despite significant improvements in survival rates, free flap failures still occur even in experienced hands and are most commonly due to arterial or venous thrombosis. In the absence of an evidence-based guid...
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But It’s Not Like That at All …
Well, perhaps it’s not. All this book can do is to give a very middle-of-the-road version of what you are likely to find if you look at the various nursing specialties.
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Introduction
Long gone are the days when the achievement of a basic nursing qualification was an end in itself. Now it is simply the first step on a career path which can lead upwards or sideways in many different directions.
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Midwifery
The midwife is an independent practitioner in her own right; indeed it is possible to enter midwifery training direct if you have the necessary O levels. However, most mid wives have first trained as nurses.
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Post-basic Clinical Specialties
For many nurses, it would be unthinkable to leave clinical practice, for all the satisfaction and pleasure in their job stem from direct patient care, but clinical practice covers an enormous area, and special...
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Teaching
‘The students of today are the nurses of tomorrow- and the profession’s future is in their hands.’ This paraphrase of a well-used public statement is of course literally true.
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Management
Contrary to popular myth, managers are not in post to thwart the best intentions of hard-working nurses simply trying to do their job, but it is understandable that people do feel resentful of their managers, ...
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Planning Your Career
Nursing is probably unique in the enormously varied range of specialisations open to the qualified practitioner. Just because there is such a choice of options, it is very hard sometimes to decide in which dir...
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Further Statutory Training
A number of nurses who have completed their basic training for one part of the register-RGNs, RSCNs, RMNs, or RNMHs-go on at some time to a further course of basic training for another part. Thus, we find RGNs...
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Nursing in the Community
If you are independent and self-reliant, if you enjoy building up relationships and, above all, if you are adaptable enough to take responsibility yourself and to enable and allow your patients to take it too,...
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Higher Education
In previous chapters, formal education courses which are intended to equip you to practise in a specialised area of nursing have been discussed.
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Distance Learning
The earlier chapters in this book have described various courses of formal learning available to nurses who want to further their careers in specific directions. However, in this chapter, I shall concentrate o...
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Project 2000
As this book goes to press, the recommendations of the UKCC’s report Project 2000-A New Preparation for Practice (published in May 1986) are still under discussion. However, as they propose radical changes in the...
