Emotional Labour and Wellbeing: What Protects Nurses?

Although compassionate care has wide-ranging benefits for patients, it can be emotionally demanding for healthcare staff. This may be a particular problem for those with little experience in a caring role. This study utilises the job demands-resources model to examine links between "emotional labour" and emotional exhaustion in student nurses.

Exploring commitment, professional identity, and support for student nurses.

Problems with the recruitment and retention of nurses globally mean that insight into the factors that might increase retention in qualified staff and students is crucial. Despite clear links between work commitment and retention, there is little research exploring commitment in student nurses and midwives. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study designed to provide insight into commitment using semi-structured interviews conducted with nine pre-registration students and a qualitative survey completed by 171 pre-registration students.

Ethnic differences in skin microvascular function and their relation to cardiac target-organ damage.

Background: People of Black African descent have increased risks of vascular target-organ damage not explained by greater blood pressures.

Objective: To study ethnic differences in the microvasculature.

Design And Methods: Flow (flux) in microcirculatory skin vessels was assessed using laser Doppler fluximetry in 181 Afro-Caribbean and European men and women aged 40-65 years from the general population in London, UK.

Ethnic differences in vascular stiffness and relations to hypertensive target organ damage.

Objective: People of Black African descent have greater risks of hypertensive target organ damage than would be anticipated for given levels of blood pressure. Arterial stiffness may further account for ethnic differences in risk.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Risk of diabetes-related amputation in South Asians vs. Europeans in the UK.

Aims: To compare the risk of and risk factors for diabetes-related amputation in South Asians and Europeans.

Methods: This was a population-based case control study based in the health districts of Bolton, Oldham and Central Manchester in the UK. Cases with diabetes-related amputation performed between 1992 and 1997 (n = 172) and controls with diabetes and no amputation (n = 376) were selected from the primary care-based North-west Diabetes Foot Study database.