Maternity Nurses

A professional Maternity Nurse should possess the following: Suitable experience/qualifications for her role - these are that she has some experience as a Nanny, at least 3 years (although most have around 5-9 years when they start), or some alternative experience such as being a midwife or paediatric Nurse with some additional experience working within family homes. There are always exceptions to the above ...

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Nursing Interventions

Definition A nursing intervention is defined as a single nursing action - treatment, procedure or activity - designed to achieve an outcome to a diagnosis, nursing or medical, for which the nurse is accountable (Saba, 2007). Patient services are usually initiated as medical orders by a referring physician and reviewed by the admitting nurse. As part of the admission assessment the primary nurse also determines the nursing orders based on the signs...

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Managing Diabetes in Residential and Nursing Homes

The prevalence of diabetes in the elderly is around 10% and it imposes an enormous burden on healthcare systems. In America in 1992 nursing home care for people with diabetes cost $1.83 billion.Elderly diabetics have much microvascular and macrovascular disease and are two to three times more likely to need hospital admission than their non-diabetic counterparts.One might expect a higher prevalence of diabetes and its complications in residential...

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