Geriatric nursing is the specialty that concerns itself with the provision of nursing services to geriatric or aged individuals. This page tries to outline the state of art guidelines for geriatric care that are useful to a nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist who encounters aging person in practice. Due to their complexity, aged people [...]
Posts under ‘General’
What is Flight nursing and who is Flight nurse?
A flight nurse is traditionally an area of expertise to provide the highly trained registered nurses complete prehospital and emergency and critical care to all types of patients during aeromedical evacuation or rescue operations aboard the helicopter and propeller aircraft or jet aircraft available. Flight nurses are often paired with flight doctors or registered respiratory [...]
What is Faith Community Nursing and what is parish nursing
Faith Community Nursing, also known as Parish Nursing, Congregational Nursing or Church Nursing, is a movement of over 10,000 registered nurses, primarily in the United States and Canada, but growing in numbers in the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, is the intentional integration of the practice of faith with [...]
What is Emergency nursing?
Emergency Nursing is a nursing specialty in which nurses care for patients in the emergency or critical phase of their illness or injury. While this is common to many nursing specialties, the key difference is that an emergency nurse is skilled at dealing with people in the phase when a diagnosis has not yet been [...]
What is Case management (mental health) ?
Case management is the coordination of community services for mental health patients by allocating a professional to be responsible for the assessment of need and implementation of care plans. It is usually required for individuals who have a serious mental illness and need ongoing support in areas such as housing, employment, social relationships, and community [...]
What is International Nurses Day?
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has celebrated this day since 1965. In 1953 Dorothy Sutherland, an official with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, had proposed that then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaim a “Nurses Day,” but he did not approve it. In January 1974, the decision was made to celebrate the day [...]
