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Resources
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Center for Community Health Nursing - Community Health Nursing at
Johns Hopkins reaches out, improves lives, makes a difference.
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Community-Based
Health Care Models - A series of research-based articles provided by
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Community health care nurses : introduction to sickle cell and
thalassaemia - To appreciate
the problems associated with sickle cell and thalassaemia Community Health
Care nurses need to have a basic understanding of the biological, genetic,
epidemiological, aetiological, clinical, and psycho-social implications of
these genetic conditions collectively known as the haemoglobinopathies.
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Community Toolbox
- The Community
Toolbox Web site provides access to "how to tools" for improving community
health and development, aimed at those working within community health.
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Development of practice nurse research: a needs assessment -
This
document reports on a collaborative study carried out by City University,
ELENoR, and Anglia Polytechnic University.[PDF]
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DIST-NURSE - A U.K. based list to bring together ideas and views
from the wide community of district nurses. The list will encourage sharing of research findings, relevant
conferences and the impact of policy upon the role of the district nurse. Research and educational opportunities
are fundamental to the practice of district nursing. The list will be of great value to practitioners and
educationalists. (Description courtesy of JISCmail). Includes message archives from August 2001.
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District nurses : putting people first -
This brief
publication from the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors'
Association (CPHVA) discusses the role of the CPHVA in helping and working
with district nurses.
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Family health nurse project - The Web site for the Family
Health Nurse Project. "Family Health Nursing is an example of one model of service delivery which is being
tested and piloted in Scotland to evaluate a role which incorporates a range of duties including disease
prevention and health promotion as well as caring for those who are ill, or who have a disability." The
site provides updates to the World Health Organisation (WHO) European Region Family Health Nurse Project,
information on the Scottish Pilot, links to other sites and an FAQ.
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Health visiting
- The Health
Visiting site provides information about child development and other
health matters for parents of pre-school children. Information is provided
on the services that the health visiting team offers, contact information
for health visitor teams and links to other Web sites.
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Health visitor - Health Visitors are qualified nurses with further
specialised training and are experienced in child health, health promotion
and health education. Our role is to help people stay healthy and avoid
illness. We are here to listen to you and to help, advise and support you
in all sorts of situations. We work with all age groups and are here for
everyone: families with young children, couples, single people, young
people and the elderly.
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Health Visitor/School Nurse resource packs - PL CNO (2001)8 - This
circular encloses resource packs which are intended to help practitioners
move away from services focused largely on routine child health
surveillance towards services which use a public health approach to
identify and tackle priority health issues in local communities, schools
and families. Contact details for obtaining hard-copy DH publications.
Useful tips to ensure you get the most from PDFs and the free Reader
program.
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Health
visitor and school nurse innovations network -
The Health
Visitor and School Nurse Innovations Network aims to "help local
practitioners share their experiences and to learn from each other as
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Internet for nursing, midwifery and health visiting - Internet for
Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is one of a set of tutorials within the Resource Discovery Network's (RDN)
Virtual Training Suite. Internet for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is a free "teach yourself"
tutorial on the Web, teaching Internet information skills for nurses, midwives, and health visitors.
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Management of head louse infection - Public concern about head lice
has increased in recent years. Although they are found on both clean and
dirty hair, head louse infection is still falsely associated with
uncleanliness and social stigma.
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National electronic library for health (NeLH) community practitioner portal - This
Web site is the community practitioner portal of the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). A variety of
information aimed at community practitioners is provided including community practitioner links, email
discussion lists relevant to community practice, statutory bodies, links to clinical guidelines, evidence based
information including databases, links to virtual branch libraries, other professional portals and resource
centres.
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New approach to health visiting documentation : the Omaha System project - A
paper, by Jean Christenssen, University of Swansea, on the Omaha project. A team of health visitors from
Swansea, under the leadership of Professor Dame June Clark initiated the Omaha project, which aimed to consider
the problems of measuring nursing outcomes in health visiting.
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NHS careers : health visiting - This document from the NHS Careers
site provides information for those interested in pursuing a career as a health visitor in the UK. Information
is available on what health visiting is, what it involves, and routes to joining. A case study is also provided.
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NHS funded nursing care practice guide & workbook - The "NHS"
Funded Nursing Care Practice Guide & Workbook' includes the Registered Nursing Care Contribution and was
published by the Department of Health in 2001. It concerns the funding for free nursing care and continence
products for self funding residents of care homes. In addition to an overview of new regulations, it includes,
flow charts, examples of documentation and case studies and examples. It has been produced by the Health and
Social Care Joint Unit, which is working within both the NHS Executive and Social Care Group. It is available in
PDF, which requires Adobe Acrobat.
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Patient care in the community : district nursing : summary information for 2001- 02, England - This
summary document provides information about "patient contacts with the District Nursing service in
England" from 2001-02. Data is collected, and published, by the Department of Health (DoH). The document
includes a commentary, definitions, and statistical tables, which can be downloaded in Excel format or in PDF
(requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
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Public
Health Nursing Resource Page - Online resources useful to the Public
Health/Community Health nurse.
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Rural
Health Webring - A collection of sites from Australia and around the
world which focus on rural health issues. These include health agencies,
government departments and educational and professional organisations.
"The information provided on nurses.info is
designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor
and his/her physician."
Page Updated:
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
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