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Creativity in care: The need for nursing today

The rise of emerging needs, the emergence of person-centered care, and the departure of care from conventional academic stereotypes, raises the need for evidence-based practice and efficient clinical reasoning in nursing. All this requires fluidity of mind and creativity in patient care. Given the importance of creativity in nursing care and its consequences at the individual and organizational...

Need for Community Care

Need for community care There has been a great deal of talk about the necessity for "community care" of the mentally ill, and it is unhappily true that, because of pressure of work, professional people involved in looking after the mentally ill are unable to give that personal care and friendship which is so often a patient's real need. The problem is not entirely solved by creating after-care ...

Spirituality, spiritual need, and spiritual care in aged care: What the literature says

This article addressed the following questions: How are spirituality, spiritual need, and spiritual care in aged care defined? What constitutes spiritual care for older people in aged care? From an organisational perspective, what are barriers and enablers to providing spiritual care? Spirituality and spiritual care were defined in a variety of ways in the literature. The literature endorsed nu...

Knowledge Hubs for Health

Knowledge Hubs for Health