Comfort zone

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The work of pain management nurse specialist Lisa Dawson involves a holistic approach to the patient. Nurses need to discover how the pain affects the patient's lifestyle, and which elements in that lifestyle exacerbate the pain. Dawson's role is clinically-based, but also encompasses research and development, education and marketing. The educative role may include instruction for health professionals or informing patients about alternative approaches to drug therapy. They specialist nurse may conduct research about the experience of pain, or they may market the service to a wider group.

Intractable pain

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Stroke of genius

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Nurse Amanda Cahn works as a clinical nurse practitioner in Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, England. She is responsible for providing continuing care for patients who have had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) from their first contact with the TIA clinic until their discharge. The nurse undertakes routine procedures at the clinic, and is also in charge of a new five-bed, five-day specialist neurovascular unit in the hospital. The development of this unit has required the development of new hospital procedures, but it has significantly reduced the length of hospital stays.

Cerebral ischemia, Cahn, Amanda

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Is the clinical nurse specialist de-skilling the junior doctor?

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Haematology professor Adrian Newland believes the rise in clinical nurse specialists is leaving junior doctors with nothing to do. Nurse practitioner Nicky Burns feels these nurses are a significant part of a team which works together with doctors.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Burns, Nicky, Newland, Adrian

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