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Barry Aveyard
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Therapeutic touch in dementia care.
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Developing continuing care: towards a teaching nursing home.
This article describes a partnership between staff, residents and relatives of a nursing home for older people with mental health problems, and lecturers within an academic department of nursing. The aim of the partnership is to develop practice and to improve the setting of the care home as an environment for living, working and learning. In our attempts to create a teaching nursing home, we recognize the need to ensure that all participants - residents, relative and staff - feel that they are valued members of the team. We describe our progress to date, together with some of the challenges of working together.
Learning to nurse in care homes: student support.
An increasing number of care homes in the UK now provide placements for students undertaking pre-registration nursing programmes, enabling them to develop knowledge and skills in the continuing care of older people. In this article the authors describe an initiative to support nursing staff working in care homes and prepare them for their role in student education. The impetus for the initiative came from student feedback and evaluation of their placement experiences. These suggested that staff in some care homes were not fully prepared to help meet students' learning needs. Students' concerns about the quality of care in some homes also made clear the need for a forum in which the evidence base for practice in continuing care settings could be discussed and debated. The initiative combined the development of new roles with regular opportunities to share information and feedback.
Is the hospital sick role a barrier to patient participation?
The sick role is a complex behaviour that allows a person who is ill to depend on carers. This article discusses the parameters of the sick role, explains how it is prompted by admission to hospital and asks whether it can act as a barrier to patients' participation in decisions on their care. It considers why some patients are reluctant to relinquish the sick role and suggests ways for nurses to help these patients to play an active part in their own recovery.