Supporting students undertaking the Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing

The general practitioner and the specialist.

The Nursing Specialist Group

Medical software tools began to emerge during the 1980's, some became known as 'expert systems'. In contrast to conventional software which process data, expert systems process 'knowledge'. For this reason, expert systems are also called ‘Knowledge Based Systems' (KBS). The most well known medical example is MYCIN.' This expert system was developed at Stanford University in 1976 to aid physicia...

Undertaking the role of patient advocate: a longitudinal study of nursing students.

Patient advocacy has been claimed as a new role for professional nurses and many codes of ethics for nurses state that they act as patient advocates. Nursing education is faced with the challenge of preparing nurses for this role. In this article we describe the results of a study that considered the tendencies of a cohort of nursing students at the Kocaeli University School of Nursing to act a...

Undertaking midwifery studies: commencing students' views.

OBJECTIVE to explore the motivations and beliefs of commencing midwifery students against a background of high course demand and high student attrition. DESIGN a qualitative analysis of student reflective essays. SETTING Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS all commencing midwifery students, in 2008, were invited to participate (n = 41). MEASUREMENTS AND FINDINGS three primary motivations...

Enhancing assertiveness in district nurse specialist practice.

District nurse (DN) care delivery has undergone substantial change in recent years due to changing demographics and service delivery demands that have called for a move of care delivery from secondary to primary care. The title District Nurse is recorded with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on completion of the Specialist Practice Qualification in District Nursing (SPQ DN), which purpor...