EDITORIAL EDITORIAL Consultant Editor Alison While Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, King’s College London
Editor Rowan Dennison [email protected] Commercial Manager Andrew Wright [email protected] Group Classified Manager Rachel McElhinney [email protected] Circulation Director Sally Boettcher [email protected] Production Manager Jon Redmayne Production Assistant Larry Oakes Publishing Director Anthony Kerr [email protected] Associate Publisher Julie Smith Managing Director Jon Benson Chief Executive Officer Ben Allen EDITORIAL BOARD Ben Bowers Queen’s Nurse, Community Cancer Nurse Specialist, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Mandy Bowler Clinical Business Manager, South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust Julie Bliss Head of Department: Mental Health, King’s College London David Briggs Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire Julie Clennell Head of Clinical Governance, County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Jane Griffiths Lecturer in Community Nursing, University of Manchester Vanessa Heaslip Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care,
Bournemouth University Maria Horne Senior Lecturer in Public Health, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford Julie Hughes Queen’s Nurse, Primary Care Change Manager, East Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group Kay Kane Independent Consultant Catriona Kennedy School Director, Napier University Brian Nyatanga Senior Lecturer, University of Worcester Tricia Robinson Nurse Consultant, St. George’s Hospital, University of London Vera Todorovic Manager, Dietetics and Nutrition Service, Bassetlaw Hospital
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Projecting a bright future
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ith the publication of the NHS Five Year Forward View (NHS England, 2014), there will be huge opportunities in 2015 for nurses working in the community in England.The document clearly identified that more investment in the community is now required, to enable more patients to be cared for in their own homes and communities.There will be an increase in the number of nurses working in the community, as fewer patients are cared for in the hospital environment. To support this, the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) will be adding to the resources and learning materials available to support nurses taking on a role in the community for the first time. In addition to our very successful Transition to Community Nursing Practice (QNI, 2014a), in 2015 we will be publishing Transition to General Practice Nursing, a free resource to support nurses moving to work in general practice as a newly qualified nurse or from the hospital environment. The QNI/QNI Scotland project to develop standards for district nurse education and practice is now well underway.We have been delighted with the overwhelmingly positive response from all stakeholders in the four countries of the UK.These voluntary standards will be used alongside the Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for specialist practice to validate district nurse programmes and will capture a comprehensive, forward-looking portrayal of the type of professional required to lead the design and delivery of nursing services in a patient’s home in the 21st century. In tandem with this work, we will also be seeking to identify the true educational value of the district nurse specialist practitioner qualification (SPQ) and its real value and impact on patients, carers and families. This will be a challenging piece of work, but it is most necessary in contributing to the overall understanding of the critical leadership role that SPQ holders have within the district nursing service. The evidence presented in the QNI’s 2020 Vision Five Years On (2014b) this year has led directly to a project focusing on discharge planning, which will take place in 2015. The QNI will be working with practitioners and service providers to identify the elements of best practice and ways in which this can be shared. We want to see an end to poor patient discharges through a lack of planning and the creation of a ‘gold standard’ for the commissioning of the discharge service. I anticipate that 2015 will also see a rise in the use of new technology by district nursing teams. Early evaluations of the impact of mobile working has shown that every community nurse could have more than 1 hour per day of additional time to care for patients. In February 2015 the QNI is holding an event in London to showcase and discuss these innovations and provide an opportunity for accelerated learning for areas yet to embrace mobile technology. It really does feel as though 2015 will bring huge opportunities as well as challenges for community nursing and the spotlight will be on providing an evidence-based, high-quality nursing service, supporting patients in their homes and communities. The QNI has been building on the evidence regarding what that should Crystal Oldman look like since 1887. BJCN Chief Executive
Queen’s Nursing Institute
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NHS England (2014) Five Year Forward View. http://tinyurl.com/movjjd6 (accessed 27 November 2014) Queen’s Nursing Institute (2014a) Transition to Community Nursing Practice. http://tinyurl.com/py4muaa (accessed 19 December 2014) Queen’s Nursing Institute (2014b) 2020 Vision: Five Years On. http://tinyurl.com/kx5rxms (accessed 19 December 2014)
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Editor Rowan Dennison [email protected] Commercial Manager Andrew Wright [email protected] Group Classified Manager Rachel McElhinney [email protected] Circulation Director Sally Boettcher [email protected] Production Manager Jon Redmayne Production Assistant Larry Oakes Publishing Director Anthony Kerr [email protected] Associate Publisher Julie Smith Managing Director Jon Benson Chief Executive Officer Ben Allen EDITORIAL BOARD Ben Bowers Queen’s Nurse, Community Cancer Nurse Specialist, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust Mandy Bowler Clinical Business Manager, South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust Julie Bliss Head of Department: Mental Health, King’s College London David Briggs Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire Julie Clennell Head of Clinical Governance, County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Jane Griffiths Lecturer in Community Nursing, University of Manchester Vanessa Heaslip Senior Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care,
Bournemouth University Maria Horne Senior Lecturer in Public Health, School of Health Studies, University of Bradford Julie Hughes Queen’s Nurse, Primary Care Change Manager, East Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group Kay Kane Independent Consultant Catriona Kennedy School Director, Napier University Brian Nyatanga Senior Lecturer, University of Worcester Tricia Robinson Nurse Consultant, St. George’s Hospital, University of London Vera Todorovic Manager, Dietetics and Nutrition Service, Bassetlaw Hospital
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£33 £129 £136 £231 £326
Subscribe online: www.magsubscriptions.com Subscribe by phone: +44 (0) 1722 716997 Contact [email protected] for institutional pricing The British Journal of Community Nursing is published by MA Healthcare Ltd, St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB Tel: +44 (0)20 7738 5454 Website: www.bjcn.co.uk
MA Healthcare Ltd is part of the Mark Allen Group
www.markallengroup.com © MA Healthcare Ltd, 2015. All rights reserved. No part of the British Journal of Community Nursing may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without prior written permission of the Publishing Director. ISSN 1462-4753 Printed by Pensord Press Ltd, Blackwood, NP12 2YA Cover picture: raduska-te/iStock
Projecting a bright future
W
ith the publication of the NHS Five Year Forward View (NHS England, 2014), there will be huge opportunities in 2015 for nurses working in the community in England.The document clearly identified that more investment in the community is now required, to enable more patients to be cared for in their own homes and communities.There will be an increase in the number of nurses working in the community, as fewer patients are cared for in the hospital environment. To support this, the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) will be adding to the resources and learning materials available to support nurses taking on a role in the community for the first time. In addition to our very successful Transition to Community Nursing Practice (QNI, 2014a), in 2015 we will be publishing Transition to General Practice Nursing, a free resource to support nurses moving to work in general practice as a newly qualified nurse or from the hospital environment. The QNI/QNI Scotland project to develop standards for district nurse education and practice is now well underway.We have been delighted with the overwhelmingly positive response from all stakeholders in the four countries of the UK.These voluntary standards will be used alongside the Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for specialist practice to validate district nurse programmes and will capture a comprehensive, forward-looking portrayal of the type of professional required to lead the design and delivery of nursing services in a patient’s home in the 21st century. In tandem with this work, we will also be seeking to identify the true educational value of the district nurse specialist practitioner qualification (SPQ) and its real value and impact on patients, carers and families. This will be a challenging piece of work, but it is most necessary in contributing to the overall understanding of the critical leadership role that SPQ holders have within the district nursing service. The evidence presented in the QNI’s 2020 Vision Five Years On (2014b) this year has led directly to a project focusing on discharge planning, which will take place in 2015. The QNI will be working with practitioners and service providers to identify the elements of best practice and ways in which this can be shared. We want to see an end to poor patient discharges through a lack of planning and the creation of a ‘gold standard’ for the commissioning of the discharge service. I anticipate that 2015 will also see a rise in the use of new technology by district nursing teams. Early evaluations of the impact of mobile working has shown that every community nurse could have more than 1 hour per day of additional time to care for patients. In February 2015 the QNI is holding an event in London to showcase and discuss these innovations and provide an opportunity for accelerated learning for areas yet to embrace mobile technology. It really does feel as though 2015 will bring huge opportunities as well as challenges for community nursing and the spotlight will be on providing an evidence-based, high-quality nursing service, supporting patients in their homes and communities. The QNI has been building on the evidence regarding what that should Crystal Oldman look like since 1887. BJCN Chief Executive
Queen’s Nursing Institute
The paper used within this publication has been sourced from Chainof-Custody certified manufacturers, operating within international environmental standards, to ensure sustainable sourcing of the raw materials, sustainable production and to minimise our carbon footprint.
NHS England (2014) Five Year Forward View. http://tinyurl.com/movjjd6 (accessed 27 November 2014) Queen’s Nursing Institute (2014a) Transition to Community Nursing Practice. http://tinyurl.com/py4muaa (accessed 19 December 2014) Queen’s Nursing Institute (2014b) 2020 Vision: Five Years On. http://tinyurl.com/kx5rxms (accessed 19 December 2014)
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