Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
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Climate change has been identified as a serious threat to human health, associated with the sustainability of current practices and lifestyles. Nurses should expand their health promotion role to address current and emerging threats to health from climate change and to address ecological public health. This article briefly outlines climate change and the concept of ecological public health, and discusses a 2012 review of the role of the nurse in health promotion.
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Clinicians should use spirometry - the measurement of breath - as the first test for asthma in adults and children over five, says draft guidance by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
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A Labour government would recruit 20,000 extra nurses, which would include 10,000 more newly trained nurses. Other pledges include joined up services from home to hospital and introducing measures such as tackling stress and lifting morale to boost staff wellbeing, the party's leader Ed Miliband has said.
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Whistleblowers whose actions have been vindicated but have been bullied and victimised as a consequence of speaking out should be sought out and given an apology, MPs have said.
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The first private company to run a NHS hospital will appeal an inadequate rating given by the Care Quality Commission after branding the regulator's report 'unbalanced and misleading'.