The UK’s leading peer-reviewed resource for district and community nurses. It shares the latest clinical best practice and professional guidance on all relevant topics including long-term conditions and palliative care, dedicated to safe and effective n
BJCN is the peer-reviewed professional journal for the district nursing team. At BJCN we welcome articles on all aspects of health care in the community. We particularly welcome articles on: - Research: whether a pilot or a full-scale study, if your project has something interesting to say...
Elsewhere, an innovative response has been the development of a specialist mental health nursing service to work specifically with family caregivers (see Woods, 1995), or teams working only with people with dementia, offering assessment, ongoing support, interventions to relieve caregiver strain, and ...
(Left) Vendors from service organizations in Orleans County lined the hallways of Orleans Community Health for the organization’s first Resource Fair. (Right) Kim Gray, chief nursing officer and director of Surgical Services at Medina Memorial Hospital, compares notes with surgeon Dr. Devon Huff, ...
Kim Gray, the hospital’s chief nursing officer and director of surgical services, has worked at the hospital more than 20 years. “Our community hospital is an invaluable asset that provides accessible, personalized, cost-effective and community-focused healthcare,” Gray said. “We offer a wid...
The Journal of Primary Care and Community Health (JPCCH) is an internationally peer-reviewed journal focused on primary healthcare and community health. This magazine is published by Elsevier Press and aims to publish original research, reviews, case reports, clinical trials, and methodological studie...
Peer Review reports Background One main group of service providers in the most peripheral layer of the health system structure is the community health workers (Behvarzan), directly responsible for providing primary health services (PHC) to the people in rural areas [1]. The Iranian Behvarz ...
Eleven authors identify as female and one as male with backgrounds in social work, public health, nursing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare and occupational therapy. This interdisciplinary team is well suited to conduct the study as most have extensive experience in collaborative ...
A dramatic decline in mental health of people worldwide in the early COVID-19 pandemic years has not recovered. In rural and remote Australia, access to appropriate and timely mental health services has been identified as a major barrier to people seeking help for mental ill-health. From 2020...
Glenister [62] described this tension in the context of mental health nursing as existing, “in the moral grey zone between caring and controlling.” (p.50). Several workers talked about their duty to provide enforced treatment when patients did not have capacity; describing such patients as ...