In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, we ask "What will the Year of the Nurse and Midwife mean for the UK’s community staff?"
Health and social care have seen significant pressures over the last few years, namely:
Captain Fearless is a nine-year-old girl who battles Wheeze Monsters with just her inhalers, spacer, bicycle bell and her magic goggles. The Big Bad Wolf has developed asthma and needs children’s help to know which inhaler to take and when, to blow the piggies’ house down.
I’m a nurse that tells stories with a health message. And I’m writing this editorial to encourage you to do the same and to explain why you should.
On 18th November 2019, the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) launched a new initiative — the International Community Nursing Observatory (ICNO). The purpose of the ICNO is to gather and analyse robust data to support the QNI’s policy, communications and campaigning around the
October played host to UK Malnutrition Awareness Week (MAW), and with it a real opportunity to focus on the realities of this often underplayed issue within health and social care.
Wound care costs are rising in the UK. Therefore, improved systems of care to address the clinical and economic burden on our healthcare provision is needed (Guest et al, 2015). It is reported that most chronic wounds contain biofilm. With an increasing understanding and acceptance of the role of biofilm within non-healing wounds, it is now widely recognised that wound treatment plans should incorporate methods to address the potential presence of biofilm (International Wound Infection Institute [IWII], 2016). The longer a wound remains open, the greater the risk of a biofilm developing and infection risk increasing (Percival et al, 2017).
