Scales for assessing medication adherence in patients with hypertension

The purpose of the present study was to translate and validate the Hill-Bone and A-14 scales. In addition, the researchers' aim was to compare the mean scores of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale...

Evaluating the impact of a coaching pilot on students and staff

Experiential learning in clinical placement currently constitutes 50% of pre-registration programmes. Student satisfaction is often linked with having a sense of belonging and being a valued member of...

‘It's the relationship you develop with them’: emotional intelligence in nurse leadership. A qualitative study

There are several conceptual definitions of EI (Salovey and Mayer, 1990; Goleman, 1995; Bar-On, 1997), which share similar theoretical foundations, including the ability to monitor one's own and...

A personal reflection: using theoretical frameworks to understand the impact of starting university on health and wellbeing

Both lay and theoretical perspectives define health. Lay perspectives of health are definitions formed by non-professional individuals, who use conceptual understandings and perceptions of what health...

Contemporary considerations relating to health promotion and older people

The WHO (2015) advocates ‘healthy ageing’ as a goal for life, describing it as a process incorporating the development and maintenance of functional ability to facilitate wellbeing in later life..

Blood donation: key challenges

Each year, NHSBT needs to recruit 135 000 new donors to replace those who are no longer able or do no wish to donate for a range of reasons. Every day we need up to 5000 people to donate blood to...

Introducing employment passports for nurses and other healthcare workers

Hospital passports have been used for a number of years for certain patient groups and are designed to give hospital staff helpful information about patients who have frequent admissions to hospital....

Urgent and emergency care: patient safety and quality issues

There seems to be no shortage of reports looking at urgent and emergency care provision and how to make good, how to re-cast service provision in the face of demand on resources. The problems facing...

Increased maximum sentences for assaulting nurses

‘An assault on any individual or citizen in our society is a terrible thing, but an assault on an emergency worker is an assault on us all. These people are our constituted representatives. They...

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