Introduction What is `safeguarding'? The Victoria Climbie inquiry Nursing evidence to the inquiry Inquiry recommendations The Government response National Service Frameworks A safeguarding guide for nurses and midwives The universality of nursing and midwifery Professional accountability Core attributes The scale of the problem Underpinning philosophy Outline of the remaining chapters Messages...

1. Manager, Health and Nutrition Tracking Service, Health Action in Crisis Cluster, World Health Organization, and Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of Clinical International Nursing, School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, New York USA 2. Technical Officer, Health Action in Crisis Cluster, World Health Organization, and Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Phy...

* Department of Environmental Medicine, Kochi University Medical School, Nankoku, Japan * * Service de Dermatologie, HopitalGénéral de Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo ** * Centre hospitalierNdeko-Basile, Kinshasa, RépubliqueDémocratique du Congo **** Department of Health Sciences, Walter Sisulu University, Mthata, South Africa ***** Disaster Nursing Global Leader doctoral Program (DNG...

The new emphasis on patients with long-term conditions offers a vision of a primary health care service that will reduce the need for hospital admission. This article debates the implications of introducing the new advanced nursing role of community matron for patients with long-term conditions and the opportunities this may offer nursing.

PURPOSE Our objective in this study was to compare the quality of care provided under the Minnesota Senior Health Options (MSHO), a special program designed to serve dually eligible older persons, to care provided to controls who received fee-for-service Medicare and Medicaid managed care. DESIGN AND METHODS Two control groups were used; one was drawn from nonenrollees living in the same area...

BACKGROUND Careful nursing, a system of nursing developed in Ireland by Catherine McAuley in the early years of the 19th century and used by Irish nurses at the Crimean war, has been described as Ireland's legacy to nursing. Although records of careful nursing have been preserved, it has received little attention in the nursing literature. AIM The purpose of this study was to conduct a prelim...

Despite political support for the baccalaureate degree as entry to practice, historical concerns over nursing education - the value of education versus service, professional versus vocational identity and theoretical versus practical knowledge - persist. The authors challenge the notion of a "two-tiered" nursing system and call for a nationwide curriculum review to help the profession adapt to ...

The nursing records of the 242 patients who used the domiciliary night nursing care service in Newham Health District showed that three distinct groups of patients were nursed during 1979 at a cost of 8.8 pounds a day. Forty-three elderly chronically sick and five disabled patients aged under 50 received care for more than 28 days, 63 patients had terminal cancer, and 131 needed short-term care...