Sarah-Jayne Lawson is a registered nurse with ID MEDICAL and currently works as a community agency nurse.
The use of compression hosiery is commonplace in the community. Traditionally, compression hosiery has been used to prevent leg ulceration, including prevention of the recurrence of leg ulcers and skin breakdown after ulcers have healed (Nelson and Bell-Syer, 2012).
The Queen’s Nursing Institute is holding its next annual conference at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London on Monday 28 September. The programme will be announced shortly and we will be bringing together a range of key speakers from national and local healthcare organisations, to speak about the most urgent issues facing community nursing and primary health care today.
Reading between the lines and ignoring all the political showboating that will inevitably precede the general election on 7 May, what are the key differences between the major parties? And what effect will this have on funding, jobs, nurses and, most importantly, quality of service?
The Cavell Nurses’ Trust has been in existence for close to 100 years, but as it’s not yet a well-known charity I’ll start by telling you a bit about its work.
Like many other areas of the NHS, community nursing has suffered from underfunding and a lack of understanding of its true value. However, more recently, there has been a surge in interest in community nursing and a growing appreciation of its potential. Ensuring community nursing is ‘fit for purpose’ is fundamental.
It’s that time of year again where Christmas is a distant memory and the longer evenings start to bring thoughts of summer. Unfortunately, the first shoots of spring also stir the fear of allergies in many of us. Allergies have become a widespread phenomenon and at any one time can affect one-in-four people in the UK. Common allergic conditions include hay fever, asthma, atopic eczema and food allergies, and many of these become worse in the spring/summer months.
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Once patients’ leg ulcers are healed, it is recommended that you move them from compression bandaging into leg ulcer hosiery kits or maintenance hosiery. But nurses often have difficulty in getting patients to comply with long-term hosiery use — which does require a lot of commitment — and ulcers often return. We asked Leanne Atkin, vascular nurse specialist at Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust, how to ensure that your patients keep healing and remain healed when they move into maintenance compression hosiery.
