During a typical week as a Family Nurse Practitioner, I provide primary care to uninsured immigrant patients on a mobile van, teach an undergraduate nursing course entitled Community and Environmental Health Nursing at the Catholic University of America, screen Hispanic women for breast and cervical cancer through Celebremos La Vida (Celebrate Life) at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Ce...

BACKGROUND Experienced clinicians who choose to become academic nurse educators bring to their new faculty role strong clinical skills and a desire to influence the next generation of nurses. However, many find themselves unprepared for the challenges they encounter. Intentional mentoring is needed to ease their transition from clinician to nurse educator. METHOD An integrative literature rev...

Being a leader is not dependent on a title and, in fact, every oncology nurse is a clinical leader. Building on skills in caring for patients, oncology clinicians and nurses use their knowledge and skills to: advocate for patients; initiate performance improvement projects; develop new services for patients and families; ensure quality and safety of care; influence health policy. Because of onc...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of health care clinicians working in multidisciplinary teams that include specialist heart failure nurses when caring for the management of heart failure patients. METHODS We used a qualitative in-depth interview study nested in a broader ethnographic study of unplanned admissions in heart failure patients (HoldF...

BACKGROUND Flexible sigmoidoscopy is a technical skill that has been successfully performed by suitably trained colorectal nurse practitioners in the USA. However, no recognised training course exists for nurse practitioners in the UK. AIMS To design and evaluate a training programme for nurse endoscopists. METHODS A multidisciplinary committee of nurses and clinicians developed a structure...

The hospital-based clinical nurse educator is pivotal to the integration of formal learning and clinical practice. Clinical nurse educators are generally considered to be expert nurses within a particular clinical environment; however, many of those who are expert clinicians suffer some loss of identity when assuming clinical teaching roles. It is necessary to facilitate the expression of ident...

Background—Flexible sigmoidoscopy is a technical skill that has been successfully performed by suitably trained colorectal nurse practitioners in the USA. However, no recognised training course exists for nurse practitioners in the UK. Aims—To design and evaluate a training programme for nurse endoscopists. Methods—A multidisciplinary committee of nurses and clinicians developed a structured pr...

Nurse–patient therapeutic engagement on acute mental health wards is beneficial to service users’ outcomes and nurses’ job satisfaction. However, not always fulfilled in practice interventions improve are sparse ineffective. We explored the experiences of users, carers, clinicians drawing from 80 hours non-participant observations an ward semi-structured interviews with 14 two 12 clinicians. An...

Background: Obesity in South Africa has created a public health crisis that warrants multilevel intervention. However, patients’ perceptions and clinicians’ challenges hinder the management of obesity primary care.Aim: The study aimed to assess obese dissatisfaction with weight body image their perspectives on interaction clinicians regarding care setting.Setting: Outpatient department Dr Yusuf...