Borrowing against the future: the response to the public consultation on the NHS bursary.

This paper discusses the UK Government's public consultation into the NHS bursary and the response from the Nursing and Midwifery Council. A public consultation stipulated that the current arrangements for funding, by the State, were not to be considered for discussion. Instead, the consultation only appraised views that would lead to the successful introduction of student finance loans for NHS professional education.

Putting knowledge to work in clinical practice: Understanding experiences of preceptorship as outcomes of interconnected domains of learning.

Aims And Objectives: To explore how preceptor support can assist newly qualified nurses to put knowledge to work across interconnected forms of knowledge when delegating to healthcare assistants.

Background: Current literature on preceptorship in nursing has failed to explore how competence is underpinned by knowledge frameworks in clinical practice.

Design: An ethnographic case study in three hospital sites in England (2011-2014).

An analysis of delegation styles among newly qualified nurses.

Aim The aim of this research was to explore how newly qualified nurses learn to organise, delegate and supervise care in hospital wards when working with and supervising healthcare assistants. It was part of a wider UK research project to explore how newly qualified nurses recontextualise the knowledge they have gained during their pre-registration nurse education programmes for use in clinical practice. Method Ethnographic case studies were conducted in three hospital sites in England.

A critical commentary on management science in relation to reforms after institutional National Health Service failures.

Aim(s): A discussion paper on the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) market reforms.

Background: NHS market reforms reliance on management science methods introduced a fundamental shift in measuring care for commissioning.

Evaluation: A number of key reports are discussed in relation to NHS market reforms and management science.

Delegation and supervision of healthcare assistants' work in the daily management of uncertainty and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly qualified nurses.

The invisibility of nursing work has been discussed in the international literature but not in relation to learning clinical skills. Evans and Guile's (Practice-based education: Perspectives and strategies, Rotterdam: Sense, 2012) theory of recontextualisation is used to explore the ways in which invisible or unplanned and unrecognised learning takes place as newly qualified nurses learn to delegate to and supervise the work of the healthcare assistant. In the British context, delegation and supervision are thought of as skills which are learnt "on the job.

NHS market liberalisation and the TTIP agreement.

Governments over the past three decades have undermined the founding principles of the NHS through reforms and market liberalisation. With greater involvement of commercial interests in health care, the NHS will become less democratic and transparent. Recent reforms, which were intended to improve productivity, quality and cost efficiency, have left the NHS exposed to the unwieldy model of market liberalisation and the attrition of public health care.

'Doing the writing' and 'working in parallel': how 'distal nursing' affects delegation and supervision in the emerging role of the newly qualified nurse.

Background: The role of the acute hospital nurse has moved away from the direct delivery of patient care and more towards the management of the delivery of bedside care by healthcare assistants. How newly qualified nurses delegate to and supervise healthcare assistants is important as failures can lead to care being missed, duplicated and/or incorrectly performed.

Objectives: The data described here form part of a wider study which explored how newly qualified nurses recontextualise knowledge into practice, and develop and apply effective delegation and supervision skills.

People, liminal spaces and experience: understanding recontextualisation of knowledge for newly qualified nurses.

Background: Little is known about how newly qualified nurses delegate to health care assistants when delivering bedside care.

Aim: To explore newly qualified nurses' experiences of delegating to, and supervising, health care assistants.

Design: Ethnographic case studies.

Breastfeeding mothers' experiences: the ghost in the machine.

We critically review qualitative research studies conducted from 2000 to 2012 exploring Western mothers' breastfeeding experiences. We used the search criteria "breastfeeding," "qualitative," and "experiences" to retrieve 74 qualitative research studies, which were reduced to 28 when the terms "existential'' and "research'' were applied. We found that the impact of technology and the pervasive worldwide marketing of infant formula devalued breastfeeding mothers' narratives in a number of ways.

A social purpose model for nursing.

Unlabelled: The very current international debate regarding the construction of professional role-identity in nursing involves analysis of context, competency, reflection, and theory.

Problem: What most of the literature shows is that nursing continues to struggle with inherited moral and behaviorist constructs in which essential is in opposition to essentialist caring values and remains part of a convoluted argument. Each of these two types of caring either figure or pre-figure in the "future of nursing," which, in the 21st century is contained within the market economy of healthcare reforms and international change.

Plethora or paucity: a systematic search and bibliometric study of the application and design of qualitative methods in nursing research 2008-2010.

Qualitative methodology has increased in application and acceptability in all research disciplines. In nursing, it is appropriate that a plethora of qualitative methods can be found as nurses pose real-world questions to clinical, cultural and ethical issues of patient care (Johnson, 2007; Long and Johnson, 2007), yet the methods nurses readily use in pursuit of answers remains under intense scrutiny. One of the problems with qualitative methodology for nursing research is its place in the hierarchy of evidence (HOE); another is its comparison to the positivist constructs of what constitutes good research and the measurement of qualitative research against this.

Liberating the NHS; commissioning, outsourcing and a new politics debate.

In the short months following the result of the UK 2010 General election, a new Government White Paper has been released entitled: Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (Department of Health (DH), 2010a). It strives to distance itself from previous health-care proposals (DH, 2009), yet if the initiatives of this latest paper are combined against previous initiatives, also using high impact declarative terms, such as competition and choice, it is clear that little has changed and more important principles than saving money are at risk.

Annotation an effective device for student feedback: a critical review of the literature.

The paper examines hand-written annotation, its many features, difficulties and strengths as a feedback tool. It extends and clarifies what modest evidence is in the public domain and offers an evaluation of how to use annotation effectively in the support of student feedback [Marshall, C.M.

Annotation is a valuable tool to enhance learning and assessment in student essays.

Unlabelled: As a United Kingdom (UK) wide organisation, the Quality Assurance Agencies ensure that best standards in higher education are reached. Following an institutional audit within a UK University, it was recommended that annotation be introduced to promote good practice in the management and implementation of giving feedback to students on assessed work. Annotation is a handwritten comment or mark written directly onto the page of the students' script.