CPD articles
Our continuing professional development (CPD) articles are designed to assist with your nursing skills and practice.
Leading in teams: part 2
TEAMS HAVE to develop over time, and simply using the term to describe groups of people does...
01 May 2006
Leading in teams: part 1
THINK ABOUT a time when you volunteered, or nearly volunteered, to take the lead as part of...
01 Apr 2006
Learning to lead: part 2
LEADERSHIP USED to be most often associated with solitary heroic figures, usually men, who...
01 Mar 2006
Learning to lead
WE CAN CONCEPTUALISE the process of leadership as a cycle of stages: developing initial...
01 Feb 2006
Defining public value in health care provision
PUBLIC VALUE has been defined as ‘what the public values – what they are willing to make...
01 Jun 2005
Difficult encounters
PRACTITIONERS, PARTICULARLY nurses, face difficult encounters every day. Almost all...
01 Apr 2005
Mentoring and the value of observation
GOOD MENTORS know when and how to use their own experience and skills to support the staff...
01 Mar 2005
Settings for death and dying
In the early 1980s, a study by Cameron and Parkes ( 1983 ) showed that more bereaved people...
01 Feb 2005
The challenge of relationship boundaries in mental health
People can play multiple roles in their lives that both relate to other people and imply...
01 Oct 2004
Mental illness … or disability?
ARE PEOPLE who experience mental health problems ill or disabled? This question is as...
01 Sep 2004
Shifting boundaries
WE ALL experience degrees of mental illness and distress during our lives. Some nurse...
01 Jul 2004
Gender and communication
LET’S START by reflecting on the nature and origin of gender differences and making clear...
01 Jun 2004
‘Racialisation’ and racism
‘RACIALISATION’ CAN be described as the process by which people are defined according to...
01 May 2004
Managing diversity
THE KINDS of ‘difference’ we are discussing here relate to people’s social identities: their...
01 Apr 2004
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