Nurse Consultants Special Interest Group

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Nurse Consultants Special Interest Group

• Chairmans Report July 07
• Clare Abley Nurse Consultant Vulnerable Older
  Adults Newcastle upon Tyne

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Outline

• Meetings frequency and attendance
• Contributing to BGS work
• Presence at Scientific meetings
• Sharing best practice
• Influencing national agenda

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Contributing to BGS Work

• Input to adjudication for posters for Scientific
  Meetings
• AR Committee
• Policy Committee
• Launch of Dignity Campaign
• Dunhill Research Fellowships
• Guidelines on Advance Statements and Advance
  Decisions
• Reviewer for a Continence Initiative

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Presence at Scientific Meetings

• Concurrent session planned and organised by Nicky
  Hayes
• Focus on Contemporary Issues
• Dignity in care
• Nurse Led Intermediate Care
• Nursing Leadership in the Care of Older People in
  Europe
• Established a poster section
• Eva Huggins prize for best poster

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Sharing Best Practice

• Practice Development Strategy for Community
  Hospitals
• Falls Prevention Programme
• Doctorate Research on Intermediate Care
• Research on ability of people with dementia to
  respond to emotion
• Mental Capacity Act

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Influencing the National Agenda

• Ask the Experts page
• Modernising Nursing Careers
• Common Assessment Framework for Adults