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26 Mar 2024
Becoming Victor: Using virtual reality in frailty education
Victor is based on a real gentleman. When you put the virtual reality glasses on you reappear in his flat, as you look around you can see football on the telly, tablets on the side to be taken, phone in the corner. Then the frailty impairments come in... mobility, vision, hearing, cognition... and you can't see what makes Victor Victor, you don't focus on one health or care need, you are all in - experiencing the vulnerability and frustration associated with living with frailty. Hundreds of learners have Become Victor during our frailty awareness and teaching. This blog shares some of what we've learnt along the way to keep people psychologically and physically safe.
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5 Mar 2024
Why nurses caring for older people need to know about social care
Knowing only about nursing care of older people is no longer enough. Nurses must now inform families about other issues and signpost them to supports on topics as wide as benefits, allowances, carers' rights, legal rights, and how to navigate the whole health and social care system.
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29 Feb 2024
Nurses supporting social care staff and residents’ wellbeing through gardening and gardens
The Elsie Wagg Innovation Scholarship funded by the Queen’s Nursing Institute and the National Garden Scheme gave us the opportunity to deliver a project that showed the positive effects of gardening on the health and well-being of social care staff and residents. Additionally, the project emphasised the role of nurses in health promotion and helping people to live and age well. Furthermore, it showed how we found a common ground in gardening, which created a meaningful connection between my nursing colleagues, social care staff, residents and I.
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28 Feb 2024
Gaslight
This blog has been submitted by a member who wishes to remain anonymous, for reasons that will become clear as you read it. Bullying is a common phenomenon for nurses, with around a quarter of the nursing family experiencing bullying in the past year. This blog highlights my personal experience of “gaslighting” - a specific type of bullying, and how I am gradually recovering from this.
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12 Sep 2023
My time as an Admiral Nurse
As September is World Alzheimer's month I've written a blog post about my time working as an Admiral Nurse (a dementia specialist nurse).
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12 Sep 2023
Growing Older and Living with a Learning Disability
People with learning disabilities are more likely to develop dementia as they grow older according to the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and they may also develop dementia at a younger age than non-learning disabled people. They may also experience deterioration from dementia at a faster rate than the general population.
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6 Sep 2023
Dementia care - a community approach
This blog looks at the the multidisciplinary approach to dementia care in the community.
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25 Aug 2023
Oral care for dementia - 10 top tips
To mark World Alzheimer’s Month throughout September 2023, the RCN Older People’s Forum will be sharing blogs about dementia. This blog by Dr Gary Mitchell MBE and Professor Gerry McKenna talks about oral care for dementia: 10 top tips.
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25 Aug 2023
Embracing dementia-friendly communities: spreading awareness during World Alzheimer's Month
To mark World Alzheimer’s Month throughout September 2023, the RCN Older People’s Forum will be sharing blogs about dementia. This blog talks about dementia-friendly communities and what we can do to support people living with dementia.
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27 Jul 2023
Older people and living with HIV
Older people are living longer with HIV across the UK, which is a cause for celebration.
