Editorial EDITOR Lisa Berry Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3169 Email: [email protected] CONSULTANT EDITOR Nicky Hayes Nurse consultant for older people, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Dr Clare Abley Nurse consultant, vulnerable older adults, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Professor June Andrews Director, Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling
Time to be taken seriously
Professor Lynn Chenoweth Professor of aged and extended care nursing, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Older people, particularly the oldest old, are forming an increasing proportion of the UK population. It is essential that ageism is not tolerated and that planning for future health and social care services for older people is taken seriously. This includes ensuring that we have a nursing workforce that is fit for purpose.
Dr Kay De Vries Senior lecturer, Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ruthe Isden Health influencing programme director, Age UK, London Dr Jacqueline Jones Associate professor, College of Nursing, University of Colorado Abigail Masterson Director, Abi Masterson Consulting, London Tracy Paine Operations director, Belong, Nantwich, Cheshire Deborah Sturdy Independent consultant Rachel Thompson Professional and practice development lead, Admiral Nursing, Dementia UK
With a new government in place, and ongoing welfare cuts and austerity measures inevitable, we must join with older people to call for a fair deal, including a nursing workforce that has the right preparation for caring and sufficient staffing levels.
Assistant editor Sophie Blakemore Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3186 Email: [email protected] Production editor Karen Davies Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3131 Email: [email protected] Administration manager Helen Hyland Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3138 Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch BUSINESS UNIT Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123
Nurse education is an important starting point: in this issue of Nursing Older People, Deborah Coleman (page 16) analyses the factors influencing gerontological content in nursing curricula, and why nurses choose to work with older people. Analysis reveals many issues that are inevitably linked to political decision making, such as the
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If students are faced with placements where workloads are heavy, why should they choose to work in these settings once they qualify?
Nicky Hayes Consultant editor
workload pressures associated with caring for older people. If nursing students are faced with placements caring for older people in hospitals, care homes and the community where workloads are heavy and supervisors in short supply, why should they choose to work in these settings once they qualify (page 7)? Better quality information about staffing levels in older people’s care and a strong lobby for safe staffing are urgently needed. Unfortunately, the new safe staffing indicator for hospitals in England (page 6), which is set to be launched this summer and published on the NHS Choices website, will not offer this information. Readers are encouraged to download the RCN guidance and tool Safe Staffing for Older People’s Wards at tinyurl.com/nkcdjf8 Nicky Hayes is nurse consultant for older people, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
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Time to be taken seriously
Professor Lynn Chenoweth Professor of aged and extended care nursing, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Older people, particularly the oldest old, are forming an increasing proportion of the UK population. It is essential that ageism is not tolerated and that planning for future health and social care services for older people is taken seriously. This includes ensuring that we have a nursing workforce that is fit for purpose.
Dr Kay De Vries Senior lecturer, Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ruthe Isden Health influencing programme director, Age UK, London Dr Jacqueline Jones Associate professor, College of Nursing, University of Colorado Abigail Masterson Director, Abi Masterson Consulting, London Tracy Paine Operations director, Belong, Nantwich, Cheshire Deborah Sturdy Independent consultant Rachel Thompson Professional and practice development lead, Admiral Nursing, Dementia UK
With a new government in place, and ongoing welfare cuts and austerity measures inevitable, we must join with older people to call for a fair deal, including a nursing workforce that has the right preparation for caring and sufficient staffing levels.
Assistant editor Sophie Blakemore Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3186 Email: [email protected] Production editor Karen Davies Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3131 Email: [email protected] Administration manager Helen Hyland Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3138 Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch BUSINESS UNIT Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123
Nurse education is an important starting point: in this issue of Nursing Older People, Deborah Coleman (page 16) analyses the factors influencing gerontological content in nursing curricula, and why nurses choose to work with older people. Analysis reveals many issues that are inevitably linked to political decision making, such as the
Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 NURSING OLDER PEOPLE RCNi, The Heights, 59-65 Lowlands Road Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW Nursing Older People is indexed on the following databases: British Nursing Index, Medline and Ovid ABC APPLICATION APPROVED 9,556 (Jan-Dec 2013) SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT RCNi subscription department, Copse Walk, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Cardiff CF23 8XG. Tel: +44 (0)345 772 6100 Print edition rates Personal: from £73 a year in the UK and Europe, and from £121 a year in the rest of the world. Institutional: from £495 a year Email: [email protected] ©2015 RCNi. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. ISSN 1472-0795 (print). ISSN 2047-8941 (online)
If students are faced with placements where workloads are heavy, why should they choose to work in these settings once they qualify?
Nicky Hayes Consultant editor
workload pressures associated with caring for older people. If nursing students are faced with placements caring for older people in hospitals, care homes and the community where workloads are heavy and supervisors in short supply, why should they choose to work in these settings once they qualify (page 7)? Better quality information about staffing levels in older people’s care and a strong lobby for safe staffing are urgently needed. Unfortunately, the new safe staffing indicator for hospitals in England (page 6), which is set to be launched this summer and published on the NHS Choices website, will not offer this information. Readers are encouraged to download the RCN guidance and tool Safe Staffing for Older People’s Wards at tinyurl.com/nkcdjf8 Nicky Hayes is nurse consultant for older people, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
Printed by Stephens and George, Merthyr Tydfil, on acid-free paper Acceptance of an advertisement does not constitute a recommendation or an endorsement of a product or service, either by the RCN or RCNi WEBSITE nop.rcni.com AUTHOR GUIDELINES journals.rcni.com/r/nop-author-guidelines OPEN ACCESS journals.rcni.com/r/open-access-faq
Our mission Nursing Older People aims to inform, support and educate nurses in the pursuit of excellence in patient care. Nursing Older People is editorially independent and the opinions expressed in it are not those of the RCN, nor of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
Follow us: @EditorCNPandNOP NURSING OLDER PEOPLE
Read more at: rcni.com
Visit us at: Nursing Older People June 2015 | Volume 27 | Number 5
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