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What You Can Learn from Military Casualty Care P17 11-17 JANUARY 2011 “Start with the patient PLUS NURSINGTIMES.NET NURSES REJECT £1.80 Vol 107 No 1 and then work outwards” JOB SECURITY Viv Bennett p8 FOR PAY RISES Does discharge planning actually work? p24 When to use nasal cannulas p16 Jungle fever: how to be a nurse on expedition p28 Frontline trauma: the experts What you can learn from military casualty care p17 www.nursingtimes.net / Vol xxx No xx / Nursing Times 00.00.11 1 New Expo Ad_v2 24/11/10 15:49 Page 1 Healthcare Innovation EXPO 9th & 10th March 2011, ExCeL London Book today for Europe’s largest healthcare innovation event Expo 2011 will be the largest event of its type in Europe, attracting over 10,000 delegates from the public, private and voluntary sectors. With over 250 exhibitors, 100 speakers and 180 seminars, all featuring high impact changes that can deliver improvements in quality and productivity in the NHS. 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I feel slightly anxious about uttering 7 Living healthily doesn’t just mean going to those words when 2011 is set to usher in such a mas- the gym, says John Bromley sive raft of changes in the NHS. But I’m still confi - 8 We speak exclusively to deputy chief dent about your ability as a profession to navigate nursing o­ cer Viv Bennett H your way through this new NHS roadmap. 11 Mark Radcli e says it's neither cheesy nor Nursing is often portrayed in the media as a downtrodden crackers to celebrate public services profession – rarely do we see nurses taking the initiative, making changes that will affect patients and other health professionals. In real life, though, nurses do exactly that, and have been well acknowledged in the New Year Honours list for driving Nursing Practice change and leading it. 13 Comment: Maggie Ioannou on why a Rosalynde Lowe, chair of the Queen’s Nursing Institute, commissioning role would release nurses' was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). creativity Other nurses who were among those honoured were: Julia Styles, 16 Practice questions: when should a nasal former head of nursing at the Blaenau Gwent Local Health Board; cannula be used to deliver oxygen? Margaret Berry, director of quality and executive nurse at NHS Luton; and Bruce Armstrong, consultant nurse and emergency 17 Innovation: caring for critically injured planning offi cer at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Founda- soldiers presents specifi c challenges tion Trust, who is also a major in the Territorial Army and who 21 Practice review: dealing with phantom played a signifi cant role in setting up the emergency depart- limb pain after amputation ment at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. These nurses received an 24 Evidence based practice: a Cochrane Offi cer of the Order of the British Empire. Well done to all of review looks at whether discharge them. See our story on the New Year Honours list on page 6. planning improves care and cuts costs The new year also heralds a new look for Nursing Times. 25 Research: what prevents one to one care Over the past few months, we’ve been talking to nurses and in mental health acute hospitals? fi nding out what you want from this magazine. 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