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NNNG Third Advanced Skills Day
17th
November 2010
Practical Sessions:
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AMT Nasal Bridle®
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PICC/Midline
placement
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NJ placement with
‘Cortrak’®
Theory Session:
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Developing a Nurse
Led Clinic
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flyer -
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Application form -
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NNNG Press response to NCEPOD 'A
mixed bag'.
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A Practical Guide to Improving
Nutrition and Hydration on the Wards
Date:
Tuesday 7th September
2010
Venue:
20 Cavendish Square, London
This sixth annual Improving
Nutrition on the Wards conference
will focus on the High Impact Action
'Keeping nourished - getting better'
and the drive for quality and
productivity.
Dr Ailsa
Brotherton
Senior Research Fellow
Department
of Nursing, University of Central
Lancashire will discuss an overview
of this High Impact Action,
providing background information on
why nutrition was selected and the
impact of improving nutrition and
hydration on the wards on quality of
care and cost savings.
Contact:
For more information please call
Keren on 020 8541 1399, email
keren@healthcare-events.co.uk
or visit
http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk
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Nursing Professional Practice
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Clinical
nurse specialists: adding value to
care
An executive summary
Nurses are the largest component
of the NHS workforce and frequently
the subject of significant change
and challenge in terms of their
role. Recent world-wide economic
events have forced service planners
and commissioners to look carefully
at the contribution nurses make
delivering high quality, effective
and person-centred care. Of all the
developments in nursing, the role of
the specialist nurse has been one of
the most exciting, but also one of
the least understood and valued. The
Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has
made securing a sustainable future
for specialist nurses a major goal
of its strategic campaigning around
national parliamentary elections and
when influencing comprehensive
spending reviews for health and
social care funding (RCN, 2010).
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Mixing of medicines prior to
administration in clinical practice
— responding to legislative changes
''...medicines legislation was
amended to now enable doctors and
dentists to direct others to mix.
In
addition, nurse, midwife and
pharmacist Independent Prescribers
can now mix medicines themselves and
direct others to mix for the purpose
of administration to an individual
patient....'' -
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Nutritional
Professional Updates |
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E-Bans Guide
E-Bans is set to revolutionise the
way we collate statistics to provide
information for groups funding and
commissioning future feeding
services. To make this robust you
need to be a reporter to ensure the
UK knows about your clients needs.
To view a simple guide -
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NCEPOD Report launched 24 June 2010
‘A Mixed Bag: An
enquiry into the care of hospital patients
receiving parenteral nutrition’ is the latest
report from the National Confidential Enquiry
into Patient Outcome & Death (NCEPOD). It is the
first national audit of PN care and covers
assessment, prescription, monitoring, line care
and nutrition teams. It covers both adult and
neonatal/paediatric PN patients and should be of
great interest to all those involved in PN care.
Full
report -
click here
Summary -
click here
BBC
News -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10391886.stm
NNNG
response -
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Malnutrition Matters Toolkit
Dr Mike Stroud
concludes: “Malnutrition does matter
and no NHS or social care
organisation can claim it is
delivering safe, effective, quality
care without appropriate nutritional
care policies in place. We ask the
new Coalition Government and
Ministerial health team to back our
call to make the implementation of
nutritional care an urgent national
priority. Organisations that deliver
good nutritional care will see
improvements in clinical outcomes
and patient and resident experience
whilst simultaneously achieving
significant reductions in costs – to
the benefit of all.”
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View press release
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