From start to finish

Article Abstract:

The pre-admission clinic at West Lancashire NHS Trust, England, where patients due to undergo surgery are assessed as out-patients, is staffed by theatre nurses rather than by the more usual out-patient department or surgical ward nurses. The clinic aims to reduce patients' anxieties by involving them in planning their care with a multidisciplinary team. An anaesthetic nurse interviews patients to assess their needs and a theatre nurse discusses the theatre process with the patient. Patients are encouraged to discuss such matters as the types of anaesthetic and pain relief available to them.

Management, Preoperative care, Lancashire, England

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A head start

Article Abstract:

A training course for newly registered mental health nurses has been devised to help them cope with working in inpatient care facilities. The course was set up by Houslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health National Health Service Trust. Managers in the Trust were worried over the fall in recruitment of nurses in mental health and the lack of training opportunities for those already working in the speciality. The course included some training days and the nurses were also supervised in a clinical setting.

United Kingdom, Officials and employees, Training, Psychiatric nursing, Psychiatric hospital care, Psychiatric hospitals

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Why pain assessment must start with believing the patient

Article Abstract:

Nursing students have little say in the pain management of their patients and are likely to be unable to change their care. An assessment of a patient's post-operative pain management reveals that pain control is given a low priority by ward staff charged with caring for patients, possibly because they did not believe the patients' assessments of their pain levels.

Care and treatment, Practice, Nursing students, Pain, Postoperative, Postoperative pain

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