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Being Mindful of the Carers

This award-winning project aimed to pilot a Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy programme to carers of people with dementia and assess its effectiveness.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse, Community Mental Health Nurse, District Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, carers, dementia, dignity, mindfulness
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Drink to Reduce INfection risK-up – A dignified approach to preventing urinary tract infection in older people resident in care homes

Urinary tract infection is the most common type of infection in care homes for older people; this project tested an intervention designed to increase the residents’ fluid intake, and evaluate its effectiveness.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   falls, hydration, prevention of infection, urinary tract infection
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Enhancing dignity through relational caring conversations

This Project aimed to celebrate and develop human interaction that promotes dignity between community nurses, residents and families in care homes.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, communication, dementia, dignity
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Food for Thought: enhancing dietary preferences for the person with advanced dementia

The aim of this project was to enhance the dignity of older people with advanced dementia using innovative methods to facilitate their food and drink choice.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, dementia, hydration, nutrition
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Living Well with Dementia: Enhancing Dignity & Quality of Life, Using A Novel Intervention, Dignity Therapy

Dignity Therapy is a brief intervention that enhances the lives of people at the end of life; this project aimed to determine its effectiveness with people with early dementia.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse, Community Mental Health Nurse, District Nurse
Project theme:   Delivering Dignity
Tagged with:   Alzheimer’s, dementia, Life Stories, memories
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Managing Catheters in the Community

Managing catheters

This project sought to explore the experiences of patients, carers, community nurses and other health and social care staff in relation to issues with indwelling urinary catheters in the community setting that trigger unplanned district nurse visits.

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse, District Nurse, Palliative Care Nurse
Project theme:   Creating Connections
Tagged with:   catheters, out of hours, prevention of infection
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The hidden excellence of care home nursing

Pauline McIntyre is Deputy Director of Care at Erskine Home in Bishopton. She is one of 20 community nurses undertaking the Queen’s Nurse Development Programme during 2019 – the third year the programme has been running. She was also recently awarded the RCN Award of Merit. Here, Pauline shares her experience of working as a care home nurse. In 2003, after 16 years in the NHS I decided on a career change. A position became available in Erskine, a charity caring for ex-service men and women. When I informed my line manager that I was offered the position as Response…

Community Nursing Speciality:   Care Home Nurse

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