Designing dementia-friendly hospital environmentsThe proportion of people with dementia in general hospitals continues to increase.Little attention has been paid the impact physical environment on their care.The King's Fund's Enhancing Healing Environment programme worked 26 NHS trusts England develop more supportive design for dementia.Projects ranged from improvements ward environments and social spaces development gardens.The evaluation found that relatively simple, cost-effective changes...

A number of experimental studies have demonstrated that phytoplankton can display rapid thermal adaptation in response to warmed environments. While these provide insight into the evolutionary responses single species, they tend employ different techniques. Consequently, our ability compare potential for across different, ecologically relevant, species remains limited. Here, we address this limitation by conducting simultaneous long-term warming experiments with same design on clonal...

The proportion of people with dementia in general hospitals continues to increase. Little attention has been paid the impact physical environment hospital on their care. King's Fund's Enhancing Healing Environment programme worked 26 NHS trusts England develop more supportive design for dementia. Projects ranged from improvements ward environments and social spaces development gardens. evaluation found that relatively simple, cost-effective changes care have positive effects those using...

The need for more dementia friendly design in hospitals and other care settings is now widely acknowledged. Working with 26 NHS Trusts England as part of a Department Health commissioned programme, King's Fund developed set overarching principles an environmental assessment tool hospital wards 2012. Following requests from sectors, additional tools were hospitals, homes, health centres housing care. have proven to be effective both disseminating the enabling case made improvements that...

This paper offers a unique insight into the factors affecting functioning of Nurse Executive Director(s) and their views on realities nursing management in new National Health Service England. It is based findings Exploring New Roles Practice (ENRiP) project which was carried out for Department Health. As part this interviews were undertaken with Directors from 20% sample acute hospital trusts The designed to explore Executive's perceptions process role development. highlight tension between...

Consensually non-monogamous (CNM) romantic and sexual relationships tend to be stigmatized. The present research examined this stigma across two studies. First, we qualitatively explored the specific ways that people in CNM report experiencing using thematic analysis identified following four themes: Expressions of discomfort/disapproval CNM, Loss resources/threatening behaviors, Character devaluation, Relationship devaluation (Study 1; N = 372). Second, relationship between experienced...

Aims and objectives. To explore the perceptions experiences of nurse allied health professional consultants key stakeholders. Background. Nurse consultants’ roles were introduced in United Kingdom 1999 with defined role criteria a remit to improve patient outcomes. Although these have now existed for over decade, there is lack research as whether achieved their intended impact on clinical care. Through an exploration consultant nurses professionals stakeholders who work practitioners,...

British politics have undergone a dramatic change as new types of political organizations emerged in the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), yet rarely do nurses receive mention; they face constant difficulties placing their work on agenda. In comparison to States, UK are poor relations when it comes policy. Knowledge system is vital if be effective influencing policy allocation resources. Many uncomfortable with idea politics, seeing distraction from core purpose care delivery, but...

Many people believe, and government policy recommends, that service users should be involved more in research agenda setting. This paper helps to provide a way of undertaking this, drawing on the approach used national priority setting exercise for nursing midwifery delivery organisation. A framework service-user expectations services was developed through process focus group discussions. Thirty-two participants were recruited from Community Health Councils (CHCs) because their formal role...

Continuing care: developing a policy analysis for nursing Many authors have commented on the invisibility of in development, implementation and analysis. Some this may be attributed to lack an easily accessible framework assist from perspective. In paper we offer based domain concepts nursing. We use continuing care older people, topical issue fundamental specialty, as case study demonstrate utility potential such action. The resulting helps identify areas interest nurses, raises questions...

Accountability is a central concept of nursing and has been described as ‘the very essence professionalism’ (1). In this article, Abigail Masterson explains what it actually means to do with accident emergency nurses?

Sue Antrobus, Abigail Masterson and Jean Bailey describe the work of RCN's Political Leadership Programme to help nurses become involved in political process, for good profession care patients

This book has been written for health and social care professionals involved in partnership working. It explores the trust concept – defined as a new primary organisation that would commission and/or deliver both which is currently being promoted by government means of encouraging seamless services, tailored to individual needs better working between care.

Abigail Masterson and colleagues describe an innovative programme that gave participants the confidence to make changes in practice return core values of nursing

The work of health care professionals in the United Kingdom is continually influenced by directions, goals and principles government dominant groups policy-making process (Ackers Abbott 1996). For too long many occupational therapists have failed to acknowledge that their exists within a wider social context. This context controls rations resources support system ultimately affects what therapy way which delivered (Øvretveit 1992). instance, Pringle (1996) suggested 1970s 1980s had...