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55-797: Nursing Times is the largest nursing website outside of the US. The majority of articles it publishes are either on nursing news or clinical subjects. For example, it contains a clinical archive of over 5,000 double-blind peer reviewed articles on all aspects of nursing. It also hosts an opinion section, long reads, career development information, clinical supplements and an innovation hub. In addition, Nursing Times supports continuing professional development and work towards revalidation through its CPD Zone. The zone comprises around 20 user-friendly online learning units on fundamental aspects of nursing, clinical articles with online assessments for bitesize CPD, clinical articles with discussion handouts for participatory CPD, and

110-497: A Nursing Times report of a BMA meeting in Bradford. ‘Not only could baths and exercise be continued with impunity throughout the normal period, but by such a regimen dysmenorrhoea was usually relieved if not dispelled.’ Clinical articles included the treatment of encephalitis lethargica , a disease that had spread around the world leaving patients with a range of neurological symptoms including enduring coma in severe cases. The cause

165-542: A circulation of 30,923 copies in 2008. It was one of 13 titles acquired from Ascential (formerly Emap ) by Metropolis International in a £23.5m cash deal, announced on 1 June 2017. Metropolis has retained the name emap for its B2B brands business, including Nursing Times . In April 2023, the Nursing Times Archive was launched, featuring digitised versions of print issues of Nursing Times published between 1905 and 1987. The Nursing Times brand also produces

220-526: A greater level of competition on to the industry. This has led to many previously large district nursing organisations, such as the Royal District Nursing Service, amalgamating with residential care providers to attempt to build a vertically integrated model. Organised district nursing in England is considered to have begun in 1859. In 1858 Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone employed

275-527: A job which requires experience, are generally older than hospital nurses and 46% planned to either retire or leave in the next six years. A majority reported that they had insufficient time to devote proper care to patients and 75% said they had vacancies or ‘frozen posts’ in their teams. In the UK, training as a district nurse requires registration as a nurse in the adult branch, and consolidation of pre registration nurse education. A degree or postgraduate diploma course

330-459: A lead in voting for the new council in 1924 it did not recommend individuals. Instead, it advised readers to ‘vote in those classes for the women they consider reliable, courageous and conscientious’. Most authors were nurses, but doctors did contribute both clinical articles and their ideas on how nurses should conduct themselves. In 1925 George Steele-Perkins advised readers of their shortcomings in an article entitled ‘Nursing don’ts’. Dr Steele had

385-566: A madam to her junior of three months. Within the last year I heard of a sister who reprimanded a nurse most severely for daring to ask her if she had recovered from a recent illness.’ On the week in which the NHS launched during July 1948, Nursing Times was clear that nurses would ‘in many people’s minds, be [ital] the service’, but acknowledged that many readers would see it as ‘a restrictive and controlling machine hampering their power and drive’. Thankfully, those who were feeling hampered – or at least

440-602: A nurse, Mary Robinson, to take care of his wife at home during her final illness. After his wife's death in 1859, he engaged Mary to go into one of the poorest districts of the city to bring healthcare to people who had no means to pay for it. He spent the rest of his life working to build up the service, with assistance from Florence Nightingale and others. District nursing on the Liverpool model soon sprang up in other towns, cities and rural areas, funded by local philanthropists. In 1887 Queen Victoria ’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses

495-513: A perennial problem – bedsores (pressure ulcers). Even then the importance of frequent position changes was recognised to prevent the problem. For treatment the author recommended Metuvit, an Austrian preparation with impressive qualities. It was not painful to patients and could be applied to sores ‘which are inclined to be septic and have delicate surrounding tissue’ resulting in rapid progress in all cases. The journal made more use of photography inside. A double-page spread in 1939 headed ‘Cripples at

550-578: A personal e-portfolio to store CPD and revalidation evidence. Founded by Macmillan and Co Ltd, the first edition of Nursing Times was published on Saturday 6 May, 1905. The print edition of Nursing Times is currently published on a monthly basis, having been published weekly until January 2017. As well as the 2017 relaunch, Nursing Times underwent a previous major redesign in March 2009. Nursing Times has regularly run campaigns on issues affecting nurses including most recently Time Out for Training (2008), A Seat on

605-564: A range of events and conferences. These include the flagship Nursing Times Awards and Student Nursing Times Awards, which is the only awards to solely recognise nurse education. The Nursing Times Awards were launched in 1990 and, as of 2021, have 25 categories covering a wide range of nursing specialties from mental health to clinical research. The Student Nursing Times Awards were launched in 2011 and, as of 2021, have 21 categories for students lecturers, practice supervisors, universities, NHS and private organisations. Other events include

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660-422: A range of useful phrases including ‘I want to vomit’ and ‘my bandage is too tight’ and included a phonetic form. Clinical articles also dealt with war-related problems such as enuresis and faecal incontinence among evacuee children. The article explained that the problem was due to ‘a fear, not a badness’’. Nurses should explain to the families with whom the children were staying that: ‘Under no circumstances should

715-577: A team of nurses that may provide wound care, train carers to administer eye drops if individuals can not do it themselves, support catheter care, and administer complex medication within a patient's home as well as immunisations. As well as treatment, a district nurse can offer advice and support with health concerns and refer to other organisations. District Nurses can specialise in different areas such as palliative care. District nurses who hold additional qualifications may prescribe certain medications to patients as Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribers under

770-515: A wide range of specialized clinical skills applicable to the community setting, which is why district nurse positions usually require some degree of previous clinical experience. There is also a strong focus on health issues affecting specific population groups (i.e. Rheumatic Fever prophylaxis). Veteran district nurses in New Zealand have had access to a higher pay scale compared to registered nurses in an acute setting. Australian district nursing

825-639: Is an essential duty.’ After 35 years in which its appearance had barely changed, Nursing Times updated its look in 1939. The staid front covers filled with long editorial comment and full-page advertisements were replaced by a black and white photograph and blue surround. An editorial comment in 1932 argued against a paper presented at the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis conference. The speaker had claimed that recreation and lack of sleep put young people at risk of TB. Nursing Times

880-490: Is currently undergoing pressure as a result of large changes in funding. Previously, community nursing was predominantly government-funded via block funding, having grown from volunteer or charitable organisations. The introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the new aged care system means funding is being made accessible to clients who can then decide how to spend it. This has forced

935-479: Is then undertaken which is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2001). In New Zealand , district nurses are usually employed by the district health boards , although there are some who come under private institutions. District Nursing in New Zealand work under the primary integrated care model, and can be classified as secondary care in some DHBs. Like their UK counterparts, New Zealand district nurses have

990-601: The Lynn News and the Peterborough Advertiser ; he also started the North Cambs Echo . He became a Liberal politician and campaigner for agricultural rights and the papers were used to promote his political views in and around Spalding , Boston , Sleaford and Peterborough . During World War II Winfrey's newspaper interests began to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson Winfrey (1902–1985). In 1947, under

1045-710: The Nursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards, which was launched in 2018, the Patient Flow Forum, which ran in 2020 and 2021, the Nursing Times Digital Forum and the Nursing Times Clinical Skills Forum, plus regular Nursing Times Careers Live jobs fairs throughout the year and webinars on a range of subjects. Nursing Times did not so much burst on the scene as tap on the door and wait to be invited in. Publishing

1100-564: The Board (2010–2011), Speak Out Safely (2013–2014) and Covid-19: Are You OK (2020–). In 2018, Nursing Times was inducted into the International Academy of Nursing Editors’ Nursing Journal Hall of Fame. It was named Special Interest Magazine of the Year at the 2019 Periodical Press Association Awards (PPAs). From July 2004 to July 2005 Nursing Times sold nearly 72,166 copies. The magazine had

1155-679: The Nurse Prescribers' Formulary for Community Practitioners (Part XVIIB(i) of the Drug Tariff ). They may be trained to assess patient's needs for equipment provision such as mobility and independent living aids, medical equipment such as specialist beds and mattresses, as well as guidance in applying for grants and welfare benefits . In England they were employed by primary care trusts and are now mostly employed by hospital or community health trusts whereas in Wales and Scotland, they are employed by

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1210-460: The children be punished as naughty and told that they are horrid Londoners who are only there on sufferance.’ War brought new clinical challenges to health professionals – mainly in the shape of traumatic injuries they would rarely if ever see in peacetime. Like their medical colleagues nurses needed to learn quickly how to care for these injuries, and Nursing Times was on hand to support them with its clinical material. An article in 1941 discussed

1265-879: The community and lead teams of community nurses and support workers. The role requires registered nurses to take a NMC approved specialist practitioner course. Duties generally include visiting house-bound patients and providing advice and care such as palliative care, wound management, catheter and continence care and medication support. Their work involves both follow-up care for recently discharged hospital inpatients and longer-term care for chronically ill patients who may be referred by many other services, as well as working collaboratively with general practitioners in preventing unnecessary or avoidable hospital admissions. District nurses assess people to see how to provide nursing care that allows people to remain in their own homes, maintain their independence, or have additional support after discharge from hospital. A district nurse will manage

1320-519: The company was taken over by Eden Bidco Ltd, a company incorporated for the purpose of the acquisition by its owners, the private equity investment group Apax and the Guardian Media Group in late March/early April 2008. In March 2012, the company announced that it would be renamed Top Right Group , and that its magazines, events and data businesses would be separated into three standalone companies. The EMAP name would continue to be used for

1375-512: The deal in October 2024, allowing the transaction to proceed to completion. 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Ascential operates four informational service categories focused on businesses in the digital economy. The four areas are product design, marketing, sales, and built environment and policy. Product Design Marketing Sales Built Environment and Policy District nurse District Nurses work manage care within

1430-432: The deposition of infective secretion from mouth lesions on cups, glasses etc.’ Although nursing was still a strictly hierarchical profession in which matrons ruled hospitals on military lines, one radical matron questioned whether it had to be like this. In ‘Discipline – its uses and abuses’ she described some ‘regrettable examples’ of abuses – which were not exclusive to matrons. ‘The student nurse of six months can be quite

1485-678: The direction of 'Pat' Winfrey, the family's newspaper titles were consolidated to form the East Midland Allied Press (EMAP): this was achieved by the merger of the Northamptonshire Printing and Publishing Company, the Peterborough Advertiser Company, the West Norfolk and King's Lynn Newspaper Company and commercial printing sections at Rushden , King's Lynn and Bury St Edmunds . The magazine division

1540-571: The extremely successful partnership of Sir Robin Miller and David Arculus . In 1992 and 1993, EMAP moved into trade magazines by acquiring titles from Maxwell Communication and Thomson . In 1996, EMAP agreed to sell its 65 newspaper titles, including the 300-year-old Stamford Mercury , to Johnston Press for £111 million. Scottish Radio Holdings was acquired by EMAP on 21 June 2005. In 2006, EMAP sold its French division to Italy's Arnoldo Mondadori Editore . On 27 July 2007, EMAP announced that it

1595-411: The grace to admit readers may consider him ‘very rude and horrid’, but insisted those who wished to know their faults would not resent him. His main focus was on nurses’ comportment. He wrote: ‘Don’t be untidy… look as clean and pretty as you can… Don’t chatter – all women are born chatterers and therefore you start handicapped – but you are more than women, you are nurses.’ In 1926 Nursing Times became

1650-520: The health board and may be based at centralised health centres or general practices . District nurses, like all qualified nurses, are regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council . District nurses can also be known as community nurse specialists. The Queen's Nursing Institute produced a report in 2019 which showed that 22% of respondents to their survey worked a day or more of unpaid overtime each week. 90% regularly did unpaid overtime. District nurses,

1705-647: The introduction of old age pensions to overseas nursing news. The journal also discussed women’s issues such as women’s role in war and kept a close watch on the progress towards full voting rights for women. The clinical articles submitted by nurse authors focused on the major health issues of the day. Many of these would be unfamiliar to nurses today, such as infection control in scarlet fever or typhoid , sea-water injection treatment and important points in rectal feeding. Readers’ wider interests were also catered for with holiday reports, recipes and information on modern hobbies such as photography and cycling. Recognising

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1760-403: The issue moved briskly on to other important matters with a two-page report on the third annual Nursing Times Lawn Tennis Challenge Cup Competition, in which Guy’s Hospital trounced St Georges by 31 games to 26 in front of at least 500 spectators. The war quickly became a major concern for Nursing Times , however, when it became apparent that it would not, as generally expected by most of

1815-615: The magazines operation, which at the time accounted for around 18 per cent of the group's turnover. The database business was renamed 4C Group, and the events unit was renamed I2i Events Group. Then in October 2015 the company announced that the EMAP brand would be scrapped as all its titles move to digital-only format. In February 2015, Top Right Group sold Media Business Insight (including Broadcast , Shots and Screen International ) to Mobeus Equity Partners and Tenzing PE. In December 2015, Top Right Group rebranded as Ascential. The company

1870-623: The mental nurse than her attendance at the dances organised for patients … Many of the delusions of the insane are of persecutions or of victimisations for which nurses or doctors are blamed, and it is essential that the careful nurse will notice the facial expressions of her charges as a fracas in the ball-room is greatly dreaded.’ The concerns of different branches including district nurses , private nurses, school nurses and fever nurses were reported, including pay and conditions as well as clinical developments. Midwives had their own section. Matters of wider relevance ranged from national news such as

1925-549: The most lovely sylvan surroundings’? Emap Ascential plc (formerly EMAP ) is a British-headquartered global company, specialising in events, intelligence and advisory services for the marketing and financial technology industries. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Informa in October 2024. Richard Winfrey purchased the Spalding Guardian in 1887 and later purchased

1980-515: The official journal of the College of Nursing (now the RCN) – a relationship that lasted for more than 40 years. The same year saw the departure of editor Swanhilde Bulan after 21 years. Whether the two events are linked is not clear, but Ms Bulan certainly cherished Nursing Times ’ independence. The medical profession in the 1920s was slowly coming to accept that menstruation was not an illness, according to

2035-460: The ones who lived in London – could turn to Mary L Stollard for information on country pleasures in London. ‘Most of us nowadays have a whole or a half day at least once a week, and sometimes Sunday as well.’ What better way could a nurse find to regain her power and drive than to spend a few pence getting right away from bricks and mortar for a long lazy afternoon ‘picnicing [sic] on the grassy slopes amid

2090-418: The patient to get some sleep.’ Ever practical, Nursing Times also acknowledged the fact that war tends to result in rather more embarrassing problems, and ran a series on the venereal diseases. Perhaps to deter readers from going too wild on their rare nights out the article on syphilis warned sternly that the disease was not only transmitted through sexual intercourse but also ‘by other means, e.g. kissing,

2145-404: The population, be over by Christmas. Nurses were suddenly thrown in at the deep end caring for air raid casualties at home and servicemen both at home and abroad, and the journal came into its own, supporting readers with clinical information as they struggled to develop new skills to deal with the kinds of major trauma most would never have encountered before. Advertisers reflected the concerns of

2200-439: The possibility of losing our worldly goods, our financial stability and what is worse even our friends and relations, so that we may as individuals and as a nation keep our freedom and ideals.’ In addition to reporting on the war as it affected nurses Nursing Times published practical information such as a series on foreign phrases for nurses with continental patients. The articles gave French, German and Polish translations for

2255-474: The practical nature of its readers, in 1912 Nursing Times organised one of its earliest competitions – for inventions and ideas. The journal had a stall at the London Nursing and Midwifery Exhibition, on which it planned to display inventions by nurses, midwives, masseuses and health visitors . In order to attract submissions for the exhibition, it offered prizes for the best entries in two classes. Class I,

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2310-476: The right sort … expert articles, interesting experiences, reliable and exhaustive news, and helpful interchanges of opinion.’ It would also cater for ‘the human being and the woman as well as the nurse’. From its early years, Nursing Times kept nurses up to date on professional news and clinical issues. It also gave them a forum to express their views. An article in 1908, for example, complained about an aspect of mental health nursing: ‘No duty lays more stress upon

2365-503: The seaside’ showed boys with disabilities having fun at their seaside home. Fun in those days consisted of racing on shingle beaches, having lessons in what appeared to be force nine gales and being put to bed on the promenade. When the country went to war , Nursing Times played its part in motivating readers to volunteer for service. It acknowledged that being sent miles from home would cause difficulties, but pointed out that many people faced far worse. ‘All of us must do our part and face

2420-403: The subject was of interest to nurses because ‘they have forcibly brought before them in the shape of imbeciles, epileptics and other degenerate children, the result of the mating of the unfit’. On 8 August 1914, Nursing Times devoted its editorial page to the solemn news that ‘the cloud which has lain over our country for the past week has now burst, and England is at war with Germany’. However,

2475-588: The time, with the Boots Pure Drug Company Limited advertising a new treatment for mustard gas burns, which was having ‘remarkable results in hospitals’. During the flu pandemic of 1918-19 , help came from a surprising source – Oxo , apparently ‘Fortifies the System against Influenza Infection’. Even in such serious times, however, Nursing Times never forgot its promise to cater for its readers’ interest as women as well as nurses. Lighter articles during

2530-399: The treatment of war burns, explaining the pathological processes involved in burn injuries and the shock precipitated in many severely burned patients. It also advised how to care for patients in primary shock: ‘Patients are often very apprehensive. They think they are going to die or be disfigured for life. A sympathetic, tactful and firm nurse will often quickly overcome these fears and enable

2585-467: The war years included advice on hair and hats (‘the safe rule is to follow the line of your head in dressing your hair’), and advice on how to make a bead bag (‘the bag of the moment … but, alas! Very expensive’). In the 1920s Nursing Times had changed little since its launch, and provided an eclectic mix of news, clinical information and articles of general interest and kept readers updated on professional issues. However, true to form, when asked to give

2640-475: Was a genteel business in 1905, and this was very much the tone of the early Nursing Times . The editor for the first 21 years was Swanhilde Bulan, a German-born journalist. Preferring anonymity, she was never identified on Nursing Times ’ pages. In the first issue, which cost a penny, Ms Bulan emphasised the independence that is still cherished today. There was ‘no shadowy personality “behind” it,’ she said, and Nursing Times would report news without bias. This

2695-474: Was an allusion to the fact its competitors promoted particular political views. A journal that promised to avoid squabbles was an attractive proposition. Responding to critics who suggested that lack of opinion would render Nursing Times ‘colourless’ the launch issue stated: ‘[If] we can avoid bias, bitterness and personalities, we are well content to be “colourless”.’ However, Nursing Times Nursing Times believed it did have colour to offer, but that would be ‘of

2750-568: Was for ‘any invention not yet on the market or any clever device or idea’ and had a first prize of £10 and a gold medal, while the first prize for Class II (any invention already on the market) was £5 and a gold medal. The first congress of the Eugenics Society was held in 1912 with the aim of making the 20th century the one in which the eugenic ideal was accepted as part of the creed of civilisation. A report in Nursing Times pointed out that

2805-409: Was founded on a hunch when the company's printing presses lay dormant between printing issues of the local papers. The staff gambled that a weekly angling publication would be a hit; in 1953, Angling Times was born. This was soon joined by another weekly heavyweight when EMAP bought Motor Cycle News from its founder in 1956 for £100. EMAP grew significantly in the late 1970s under the guidance of

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2860-515: Was never established and no further epidemics have been reported. Nursing Times continued to publish fashion articles alongside its more serious content. We can only hope this did not influence the nurse at ‘a certain Poor Law institution’ who resigned because she objected to her new uniform. As an editorial commented, ‘To abandon her chosen calling for so frivolous a reason seems to show she had quite failed to grasp that willing response to discipline

2915-504: Was the subject of an £800m initial public offering in February 2016. The Guardian Media Group sold off its shares of Ascential in 2016 and 2017. In June 2017, Ascential sold heritage brands (business-to-business titles) to Metropolis International . The transaction include the rights to EMAP name (as EMAP Publishing Ltd). In July 2024, Informa reached a deal to acquire Ascential for approximately £1.2 billion. The court sanctioned

2970-427: Was unconvinced. ‘An occasional late night spent at the cinema or in the dance-hall hurts nobody – on the contrary it supplies a needed mental fillip.’ The journal also, rather surprisingly, came out in support of smokers. Although there had been early reports linking smoking with lung cancer, Nursing Times believed: ‘… it certainly does good to tuberculosis persons and diabetics’. Clinical articles included advice on

3025-500: Was undertaking a review of the structure of the group in response to receiving a number of unsolicited proposals to purchase parts of the company. On 12 September 2007, EMAP announced that it had completed the disposal of its Australian consumer magazine division, Emap Australia for approximately £38m to ACP Magazines . On 29 January 2008, EMAP completed the sale of its radio , television and consumer media businesses ( EMAP Radio ) to German company Bauer for £1.14bn. The remainder of

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