BACKGROUND We are facing a global epidemic of non-communicable disease (NCDs), which has been linked with four risky lifestyle behaviours. It is recommended that primary care providers (PCPs) provide individual brief behaviour change counselling (BBCC) as part of everyday primary care, however currently training is required to build capacity. Local training programmes are not sufficient to achi...

When a patient wanted to change to the Newton IQ cycler with IQcard (Fresenius Medical Care, Bad Homburg, Germany), several barriers to training presented: fear of training, limited memory, and language barrier. During demonstrations, the nurse spoke slowly and observed body language for cues before introducing the next piece of information. Day 1 featured interruptions by other patients; the p...

Practice nursing has expanded rapidly since the 1990 contract for general practitioners. In 1990, a national survey was undertaken of the attitudes of a random sample of general practitioners towards practice nurses. Responses to the postal questionnaire were received from 41.9% of the 4800 general practitioners sampled. Of the responding general practitioners, 90.0% were satisfied with the rol...

BACKGROUND Obstetric fistula devastates the lives of women and is found most commonly among the poor in resource-limited settings. Unrepaired third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations have been shown to be the source of approximately one-third of the fistula burden in fistula camps in Kenya. In this study, we assessed potential barriers to accurate identification by Kenyan nurse-midwives of...

I read with growing interest your articles on the recruitment of student nurses, mainly because if I had seen what I have come to see in seven months of training I would never have entered nurse education.

introduction nurse-patient communication is highly important especially when the patient is a child. one thing that has been overlooked in the nursing profession or less discussed is how to communicate with children. design and training courses for the development of communication skills is considered as an important step in this direction. this study investigated the effect of training communi...