Anyone who has cancer or is suspected of having cancer, needs information, comfort and support. The objective of this conference was to equip delegates to meet those needs. Communication with the patient was discussed, to enable the patient to understand and come to terms with the disease. Difficulties in communication ...
The aims of this conference were to identify the problems that are particular to those working in terminal care, to find ways of solving them, and to look at the future development of the specialty. Terminal care is distinguished from other medical care by the need to relieve pain that ...
This report outlines and discusses the King's Fund Ward Sister Training Project being piloted at Guy's Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital in London. This arose from debate in 1977 about how the Fund could respond to the climate of management awareness and professional concern about the role of the ward ...
The essence of successful management of day hospital care concerns relationships between the staff and patients and also communication between staff and patients' relatives. The report concentrates on the multidisciplinary approach to day hospitals and examines the roles of nurse, physiotherapist and occupational therapist in detail. Further discussion centres on ...
The many disciplines concerned in antenatal care are anxious that the services available should reach all mothers and young children, where the reduction of perinatal mortality begins. Several aspects of antenatal care were discussed at the conference, with the overall view that all staff needed to be more sensitive to ...
The aim of this conference was to clarify the role of the personnel nurse and to measure the success of their contribution to the National Health Service. Discussion centred on the role of the personnel department; the functions that should be carried out by departmental staff; the information the personnel ...
The importance of `bonding' between an infant and its parents and how this process can be made or marred by the attitudes of staff and methods of organisation was the focal point of this conference. Discussion covered topics such as how staff can best prepare relatives for their first encounter ...