The role of the charge nurse manager: a descriptive exploratory study.

Aim: To explore the charge nurse manager role.

Background: Management in nursing is increasingly challenging. Restructuring of organizations has had an impact on the scope of the charge nurse manager role that has expanded so that managers are now expected to be leaders.

Examining a community model of epilepsy care for people with learning disabilities.

Purpose: To assess the use of specialised medical epilepsy services by people with learning disabilities (LD) and epilepsy in a community healthcare setting, to compare medical epilepsy care in this group to current management guidelines, and to contrast important outcomes with those achieved in different healthcare settings.

Methods: Postal survey with a carer completed questionnaire addressed to all adults with epilepsy registered on an LD register in Sheffield, UK (n=442).

Results: An analysis based on 225 returned questionnaires revealed that 22.