With the support of informal carers now recognised as a priority if people with significant needs are to live at home, Lesley Adcock examines the care given to an individual patient and her husband upon her discharge from hospital following a stroke injury.
Lesley Adcock BSc(Hons) Community Health, DN, RGN, District Nursing Sister, Hounslow & Spelthorne Community & Mental Health Trust.
Article accepted for publication April 1999.
Professor Philip Burnard discusses the points community nurses should consider prior to engaging patients in conversations about sexuality.
Philip Burnard PhD, MSc, RGN, RMN, DipN, Cert Ed, RNT, Professor and Vice Dean, School of Nursing Studies, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff.
Article accepted for publication July 1999
John Unsworth, Liz Hardy, Eleanor Binks and Tony Patterson discuss the need to involve community based nurses in decisions regarding intermediate care for patients.
John Unsworth MSc, BSc (Hons), BA, RGN, DPSN, PGCE, Practice Development Nurse & Liz Hardy MA, RGN, DNCert, DMS,
Head of Nursing/Community Manager, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust.
Eleanor Binks CSS, Officer in Charge – Residential Home & Tony Patterson, Manager, Care in the Community, North Tyneside Council.
Article accepted for publication September 1999.
Sue Green considers the use of oral dietary supplements to promote nutritional intake of adults in the primary care setting.
S. M. Green RN, BSc, MMedSci, PhD. Lecturer at the University of Hull, Faculty of Health, School of Nursing, Hull.
Article accepted for publication December 1999.
Patricia Grocott presents a critical review of fungating wound management from a community perspective, using case study data from her study into the palliative management of fungating wounds.
Patricia Grocott PhD, BSc (Hons),
Dip.N (Lond), RGN, Research Associate, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, Kings College Hospital, London.
Article accepted for publication November 1999.
June Rogers reviews the differing types of day-time wetting problems affecting children and discusses appropriate interventions and treatments.
June Rogers MBE, BA(Hons), RGN, RSCN, S.N.Cert., DPSN, is Paediatric Nurse Adviser (Continence Promotion) St. Helens & Knowsley Community Health (NHS) Trust.
Article accepted for publication September 1998.
In the first of three articles Amira Obeid describes her grounded theory study on health visitors perceptions of user participation in health care.
Amira Obeid RGN, RM, RHV, DPS:N (CHS), BSc (Hons), FETC, MSc Adv Nur, Researcher/practitioner primary care, Birmingham Specialist Community NHS Trust/Birmingham University and PCG Board Nurse Member, Sparkbrook, Birmingham.
Article accepted for publication January 2000.
