Nursing associates 6 years on: A review of the literature.

Aim: This paper reviews the empirical research evidence relating to the nursing associate (NA) role since its implementation in England in 2017.

Background: The NA role arose from the findings of the Raising the Bar: Shape of Caring Review (Willis, 2015). The roles' aim is to bridge the gap between healthcare assistant and registered nurse as part of the nursing team, working with people of all ages in a variety of health and social care settings.

Exploration of the Potential Role for Aβ in Delivery of Extracellular Copper to Ctr1.

Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides are notorious for their involvement in Alzheimer's disease (AD), by virtue of their propensity to aggregate to form oligomers, fibrils, and eventually plaques in the brain. Nevertheless, they appear to be essential for correct neurophysiology on the synaptic level and may have additional functions including antimicrobial activity, sealing the blood-brain barrier, promotion of recovery from brain injury, and even tumor suppression. Aβ peptides are also avid copper chelators, and coincidentally copper is significantly dysregulated in the AD brain.

Nursing and the barriers to sustainable health care: a literature review.

Objectives: global warming poses a serious threat to human health, yet healthcare organisations and staff have been relatively slow to engage with sustainable healthcare practices. This review of the literature seeks to frame what is already known about nurses and their views on global warming and sustainable health care.

Design: 11 primary research articles were sourced from a search of five mainstream databases.

How lack of physiotherapist out-of-hours led to nurses developing their role: A UK case study.

The aim of this article is to share the experience of how a multi-disciplinary team worked together to develop the nursing role to incorporate the practitioners supporting mobilisation of a patient. The role developed nurses' competence, ensuring that the information and instruction patients received were consistent between therapists and nursing staff, but also supported the Enhanced Recovery Programme (2010). There were issues with the level of therapy support, especially out of hours.

Mentoring community-based trainee assistant practitioners: a case study.

The healthcare workforce is changing, and the introduction of assistant practitioner roles in the community presents exciting opportunities for the unregistered workforce. Healthcare assistants wishing to become assistant practitioners are undertaking foundation degrees. During this period of study, they require support and supervision from a mentor to perform competencies; however, mentors are often poorly prepared for this role.

Community nurses' perceptions of a good death: a qualitative exploratory study.

Aims: This study sought to gain an insight into perceptions of a 'good death' among community nurses, and to identify its central components. By understanding these factors, it was hoped that common difficulties could be identified, enabling recommendations to be made to enhance patient care and reduce the pressures to which nurses are exposed.

Method And Sample: This qualitative exploratory study relied on semi-structured interviews, incorporating the critical incident technique to elicit retrospective accounts of experiences of palliative care and a good death.

Effectiveness of acupuncture for migraine: critical literature review.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to evaluate previous research studies on acupuncture for migraine with reference to the Standards for Reporting Interventions in Controlled Trials of Acupuncture guidelines.

Background: It is estimated that around 2-15% of the world's population are affected by migraine headaches. Thirteen per cent of adults in the United Kingdom suffer with chronic pain, migraine headaches accounting for 7% of cases.