Copyright © 2006 by the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society J WOCN ■ May/June 2006 281 Barbara Pieper, PhD, RN, FAAN, CWOCN, CS, Professor/ Nurse Practitioner, College of Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. Mary Sieggreen, MSN, APRN, BC, CVN, Nurse Practitioner, Vascular, Harper University Hospital, Detroit, Mich. Barbara Freeland, MSN, APRN, BC, CDE, Clinical Nurse Speciali...

1 Nurse. Nurse specialist in Pediatric Oncology. Junior Nurse at the Federal University of São Paulo ́s Pediatric Oncology Institute. São Paulo, Brazil. [email protected] 2 Nurse. Doctorate in Sciences from the Post-Graduate program in Nursing of the Federal University of São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil. [email protected] 3 Associate Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo ́s Nursing S...

Objective To identify patients’ perceptions of the side effects of Hepatitis C treatment. Design The research used a self‐reporting postal survey design to identify reported side effects, related to hepatitis C treatment, suffered by patients attending a specialist nurse clinic. Setting The setting for this study was an outpatient hepatology clinic in a large general hospital in Ireland. Subjec...

At a recent demonstration by health care staff in Leeds, the banner held by three specialist rheumatology nurses read 'People with arthritis need staff who understand it – cuts are causing chaos'. So what has happened that has caused these normally calm and hardworking nurses to protest so vociferously? As is the case with many specialist nurses, their posts are under threat. This is rather per...

AIM This paper is a report of a study conducted to explore how specialist heart failure nurses negotiate treatment advice with patients, in the context of an increasing expectation that clinical staff in the National Health Services will follow guidelines in their daily work. BACKGROUND The development of specialist nurse roles has given rise to questions about their compatibility with patien...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of specialist nurse-led clinics for hypertension and hyperlipidemia provided for diabetic patients receiving hospital-based care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This study was a randomized controlled implementation trial at Hope Hospital, Salford, U.K. The subjects consisted of 1,407 subjects presenting for annual review with raised blood pressure(>or=140...