Research Unit

Issue No. 53 (September 2008)

• Co-morbidity and the Probability of Wound Healing(67KB)

• Wound Healing Probability Tool (82KB)

Issue No. 47 (July 2007)

• What is Important about District Nursing for People with Chronic Illness (PDF 84KB)

• Newsletter Insert - The District Nurse Model for Person-Centre Care (PDF 1MB)

Issue No. 45 (February 2007)

• Complex Care: Medication Management for People Living in the Community with Dementia and Chronic Illness (PDF 109KB)

Issue No. 43 (August 2006)

• Complex Care: People with Diabetes and Mental Illness (PDF 270KB)

Issue No. 39 (December 2005)

• A Balancing Act: Minimising the risk of hypoglycaemia while achieving recommended glycaemic targets (PDF 190KB)

Issue No. 38 (October 2005)

• Itching to Scratch: Innovative nursing interventions for chronic itch (PDF 157KB)

Issue 35 (April 2005)

• Enduring Chronic Pain (PDF 2.4MB)

Issue 31 (August 2004)

• Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Transition between Diabetes Services (PDF 55KB)

Issue 28 (May 2004)

• What do people with chronic illness want from district nurses? (PDF 79KB)

Issue 24 (December 2003)

• Living with HIV Related Fatigue(PDF 57KB)

Issue 18 (June 2003)

• One person's story in context of the pilot study: Exploring transition of young people with type 1 diabetes from children’s to adult diabetes
  health services(PDF 48KB)

Issue 8 (June 2002)

• Sexuality Issues for Women Living with Chronic Illness (Part 2) (PDF 79KB)

Issue 7 (May 2002)'

• Sexuality Issues for Women Living with Chronic Illness (Part 1)(PDF 66KB)

Issue 3 (January 2002).

• Chronic Illness Management(PDF 62KB)

Issue No. 54 (October 2008)

• Reducing the Risk of Falling for Older People Living in the Community(208KB)

Issue 17 (May 2003)

• How can community nursing policy better support a nurse’s clinical judgement when clients living with dementia are not able to consent to nursing intervention?(PDF 58KB)

Issue 16 (April 2003)

• Older people and skin tears(PDF 76KB)

Issue No. 52 (July 2008)

• Caring for People Living in Domestic Squalor (61KB)

• Indicators of Squalor Observed by District Nurses(40KB)

Issue No. 50 (February 2008)

• Palliative Care at Home: Nurses, Carers and Medications(88KB)

Issue No. 49 (November 2007)

• Understanding HIV/AIDS Community Nursing Care (PDF 88KB)

• Newsletter Insert - Model of RDNS HIV/AIDS Community Nursing Care PDF 657KB)

Issue No. 46 (April 2007)

• The Transfer of Evidence into Community Nursing Practice (PDF 89KB)

• Appendix (PDF 332KB)

Issue No. 42 (June 2006)

• Anaphylaxis Management for Community Nursing Practice(PDF 146KB)

Issue No. 41 (April 2006)

• Minimisation of Pain and/or Trauma during Wound Management (PDF 130KB)

Issue 34 (November 2004)

• Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management (PDF 61KB)

Issue 32 (September 2004)

• A Three Way Control System: Redefining Community Based Infection Control (PDF 63KB)

Issue 30 (July 2004)

• Wound Bed Preparation (PDF 68KB)

Issue 29 (June 2004)

• Redefining Community Based Infection Control: Hand Hygiene (PDF 51KB)

Issue 26 (March 2004)

• Managing Clients with a Venous Leg Ulcer: Keeping the Pressure on (PDF 57KB)

Issue 23 (November 2003)

• Working with Clients who frequent RDNS Homeless Clinics (PDF 61KB)

Issue 22 (October 2003)

• Wound Assessment and Documentation (PDF 72KB)

Issue 20 (August 2003)

• Putting the ‘Self’ into Asthma Self-Management: One Person's Story (Part 2) (PDF 55KB)

Issue 19 (July 2003)

• Putting the ‘Self’ into Asthma Self-Management: One Person's Story (Part 1) (PDF 53KB)

Issue 13 (November 2002)

• Living with Schizophrenia (PDF 66KB)

Issue 12 (October 2002)

• Tap water cleansing of leg ulcers in the community (PDF 56KB)

Issue 11 (September 2002)

• Wound Swabbing(PDF 67KB)

Issue 10 (August 2002)

• Hand-washing and Community Nursing (PDF 461KB)

Issue 9 (July 2002)

• Antiseptics in Wound Management

(PDF 85KB)
Issue 6 (April 2002)

• Arthritis Self-management

(PDF 71KB)
Issue 5 (March 2002)

• Disabilities Management

(PDF 48KB)
Issue 4 (February 2002)

• Palliative Care Management

(PDF 63KB)

Issue 1 (November 2001)

• Wound Management

(PDF 135KB)

Issue No. 55 (March 2009)

• Men and their Bladder and Bowel Health (67KB)

Issue No. 48 (September 2007)

• Reducing Trauma During the Removal of Male and Supra-Pubic Catheters: From Evidence to Experience (PDF 83KB)

• Reference List (PDF 194KB)

Issue No. 40 (February 2006)

• Sexual Health and Living with a Urinary Dwelling Catheter: A Continuum of Life(PDF 168KB)

Issue No. 37 (August 2005)

• Incontinence and Dementia (PDF 151KB)

Issue 21 (September 2003)

• Living with an indwelling urinary catheter (PDF 58KB)

Issue 2 (December 2001)

• Continence Management (PDF 58KB)

Issue No. 56 (May 2009)

• Pain Assessment with People Receiving Palliative Care (54KB)

Issue No. 51 (May 2008)

• Sterility, stability and potency of medications administered by carers in home-based Palliative Care (94KB)

Issue 15 (March 2003)

• The consumer's voice in Medication Management (PDF 66KB)

Issue 14 (February 2003)

• Identifying the Issues of Medication Management in the Community (PDF 65KB)

Issue No. 44 (October 2006)

• The Nurse Practitioner Role in Community Nursing (PDF 130KB)

Issue No. 36 (June 2005)

• The Nursing Preceptor Role (PDF 175KB)

Issue 33 (October 2004)

• Clinical Leadership Programme (PDF 54KB)

Issue 27 (April 2004)

• The Nurse's Role in the Caring Encounter with Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (PDF 53KB)

Issue 25 (February 2004)

• Romantic Love, Young Women and Domestic Violence (PDF 62KB)