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7. CGA in Primary Care Settings: Creating a problem list

28 January 2019

Creating a problem list as part of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment can help identify all the issues to consider and will be helpful in drawing up a care plan.

In a series

Good practice guide

Proactive care of older people undergoing surgery

23 May 2012

More older people are undergoing surgery, but postoperative outcomes are worse than for younger patients. This case study looks at the Proactive Care of Older People undergoing Surgery (POPS) team at Guy's and St Thomas's.

Case study

Nursing Perspectives on the Confusion Assessment Method

16 August 2018

The Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) is used to detect delirium but its sensitivity is low when used in real-world settings. A study explored reasons for this through a series of focus groups with orthopaedic nurses at two academic hospitals in Hamilton, Canada.

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Simulated practice to improve care

20 April 2018

This Practice Question has been published with the kind permission of the Royal College of Nursing.

Could simulated practice with registered nurses improve the delivery of healthcare for older people in hospital?

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E-learning

Continence Care in Residential and Nursing Homes

19 April 2018

Many of the residents are likely to have some degree of urinary incontinence or dysfunction. Urinary incontinence in this setting should not be viewed as inevitable. With good management it may be preventable. Incontinence is a symptom of underlying problems.

Good practice guide

Doreen Norton - How one nurse helped to stop killer bedsores

11 September 2012

“Moving a patient relieves bedsores:” it sounds obvious today, but it took the work of an innovative nurse in the 1950s working with a group of elderly patients to realise it. Bedsores, or pressure ulcers are lesions caused by a number of factors including unrelieved pressure.

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History

Improving oral health in older people

15 August 2017

The Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England is concerned about the significant impact that poor oral health is having on older people’s general health and quality of life.

Report

Safe Nurse Staffing Levels on Wards

04 December 2012

Can it be used by nurses to determine whether staffing levels are safe on their wards?

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Good practice guide

Spirituality - How should we assess the spiritual needs of our patients?

01 October 2012

While it may be unrealistic to celebrate every significant day for every patient, we know that assessment of a person’s spiritual needs should be an integral part of our professional assessment.

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Productive practice in health care

01 October 2012

Productive working is often associated with manufacturing, where being productive results in producing items. Many of the techniques that can be used to assess and improve productivity originated in the car manufacturing industry.

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I often suspect that an older person is depressed, but I cannot persuade colleagues to consider this diagnosis.

01 October 2012

Nurses frequently complain to me that when they think an older patient might have depression they have difficulty in convincing colleagues to take action. This could be because of the under-recognition of depression in old age, and also the way in which nurses articulate their concerns.

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The Government response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee Second Report of Session 2017-19, ‘The Nursing Workforce’

25 July 2018

The Government has published its response to the Health and Social Care Select Committee's Second Report of Session 2017-19 on 'The Nursing Workforce'.

News

How do we recognise and act upon the duality of being a family caregiver and clinician?

16 September 2019

In 2018, as part of a Florence Nightingale Foundation travel scholarship, I spent over a month visiting the islands of Ireland and New Zealand. I went to find out more about advance care planning, hospice research activity, knowledge mobilisation and models of care for people living with dementia.

Blog

Keeping planes in the air - learning the art of interdisciplinary working

16 August 2019

I stared through the window at the propellor whirring not much more than 8 feet from my head and wondered what makes the difference between safety and disaster on an aeroplane. Evidence from the airline industry would suggest that the biggest single factor is the human factor - the so called nontechnical skills.

Blog

Supporting social care and the funding it urgently needs

20 June 2019

While integrated care is being discussed, Lucy Lewis, consultant practitioner trainee specialising in frailty and older people at Health Education England (Wessex), gives some startling figures that reinforce the value of social care systems and the call for increased funding.

Blog

International Nurses Day: Presence, not presents

10 May 2019

In the context of the multidisciplinary team it can feel awkward to single out any one profession for praise - but nurses offer unique and valuable skills, writes Dawne Garrett.

Blog

An unknown world

10 April 2019

Blog

The essential need to educate all about age and ageing

01 March 2019

The population is ageing and more and more professionals are required to work with older people wherever that may be; in specialist services, primary care, care homes, acute surgery or in an emergency department and everywhere.

Blog

Read for the ‘solutions’ and stay for the ‘science’

20 February 2019

Blog

A bit of the other - Older People in Care Homes: Sex, Sexuality and Intimate Relationships; an RCN discussion and guidance document

10 January 2019

We are getting better at difficult conversations - cancer, dementia, end of life care, advance directives, deprivation of liberty - for those of us who work with older people all these thorny issues are common. They’re personal, individual but frequent.

Blog

Spring Meeting 2020

01 April 2020

MANCHESTER

The BGS Spring meeting will cover the latest scientific research and the best clinical practice in care of older people. This conference will cover core areas of interest to all specialists responsible for the health care of older people.

Spring Conference

BritMODIS and BGS MDS Research Meeting 2020

30 January 2020

BIRMINGHAM

SIG Meeting

BGS Nurse and AHP Council position statement on workforce and education

12 February 2019

BGS Nurse and AHP Council have identified five levels of health and care staff in the workforce where specific knowledge and skills pertaining to working with older people, who may be living or dying with frailty, requires a tailored educational and practice development response.

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