2009 news
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21 October 2009 Pain management education ‘inadequate’
Survey results released this week reveal that a distinct lack of time is being dedicated to educating healthcare students on pain and how best to manage it in their patients.
19 October 2009 Malaysian Government funds Nurse Tutor visit
Six Malaysian Tutors completed a three week study programme with the School this autumn.
Survey results released this week reveal that a distinct lack of time is being dedicated to educating healthcare students on pain and how best to manage it in their patients.
19 October 2009 Malaysian Government funds Nurse Tutor visit
Six Malaysian Tutors completed a three week study programme with the School this autumn.
September
15 Sep 2009 Nursing Standard article. (Nursing Standard Volume 24 No.1, September 9th to 15th, pages 22 and 23).
Two Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery students, Angelina Kennedy and Greg Hext, went on a U.S nursing exchange last year and talk about their experiences in the Nursing Standard this week. The exchange programme has enabled students from the UK and the United States to evaluate each other's nursing roles.
2 Sep 2009 Florence Nightingale Exhibit - The 39th Nurse.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's death in 2010, artist Joanelle Mulrain will be staging an exhibition at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Florida, from October to December 2009.
As part of the exhibition, nurses are encouraged to share their stories. Further details.
For details of the exhibition programme please see attached pdf.
Two Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery students, Angelina Kennedy and Greg Hext, went on a U.S nursing exchange last year and talk about their experiences in the Nursing Standard this week. The exchange programme has enabled students from the UK and the United States to evaluate each other's nursing roles.
2 Sep 2009 Florence Nightingale Exhibit - The 39th Nurse.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's death in 2010, artist Joanelle Mulrain will be staging an exhibition at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Florida, from October to December 2009.
As part of the exhibition, nurses are encouraged to share their stories. Further details.
For details of the exhibition programme please see attached pdf.
August
12 Aug 2009 Dr Simon Jones interviewed on BBC
Dr Simon Jones, Senior Research Fellow at the National Nursing Research Unit and Chief Statistician at Dr Foster Intelligence, was interviewed today on BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio Wales about the cost of missed NHS appointments.
Dr Simon Jones, Senior Research Fellow at the National Nursing Research Unit and Chief Statistician at Dr Foster Intelligence, was interviewed today on BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio Wales about the cost of missed NHS appointments.
July
17 Jul 2009 Violence victims need abortion support
A new paper by researchers at the King's Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery calls for greater awareness about domestic violence and underlines the need to support women seeking to terminate unwanted pregnancies associated with partner violence. The paper is published in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG) today.
15 Jul 2009 UNICEF honours midwifery programmes
Midwifery programmes at King's Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery have been accredited by the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) at UNICEF for excellence in infant feeding for the second year running – making King’s one of only two universities in England to have programmes re-accredited.
01 July 2009 King’s Nursing School to play major role in PM’s Nursing Commission The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London is to play a major role in the government’s new Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery.
A new paper by researchers at the King's Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery calls for greater awareness about domestic violence and underlines the need to support women seeking to terminate unwanted pregnancies associated with partner violence. The paper is published in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG) today.
15 Jul 2009 UNICEF honours midwifery programmes
Midwifery programmes at King's Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery have been accredited by the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) at UNICEF for excellence in infant feeding for the second year running – making King’s one of only two universities in England to have programmes re-accredited.
01 July 2009 King’s Nursing School to play major role in PM’s Nursing Commission The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London is to play a major role in the government’s new Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery.
June
24 June 2009 King’s Nursing Professors’ Journal Ranked Highest The International Journal of Nursing Studies consolidates its position as the highest ranked non-specialist nursing journal
17 Jun 2009 Developing nursing schools in India
King's Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery is to play a leading role in a £30m development project to create up to 15 leading-edge nursing schools in India. The School will advise SKIL, a private company involved in developing India’s infrastructure, on all aspects of education for healthcare professionals.
17 Jun 2009 Developing nursing schools in India
King's Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery is to play a leading role in a £30m development project to create up to 15 leading-edge nursing schools in India. The School will advise SKIL, a private company involved in developing India’s infrastructure, on all aspects of education for healthcare professionals.
May
28 May 2009 Places still available for September 2009 entry The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London is inviting you to take a fresh look at the opportunities offered within the world of nursing and healthcare. Places are still available within mental health and adult nursing programmes starting in September 2009.
26 May 2009 Leading the way in postgraduate nursing research
The work and successes of postgraduate research nursing students were recently celebrated at a special research symposium at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.
21 May 2009 Inaugural Nursing Summer School 2009 – APPLY NOWThis summer, the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery is offering a unique and unprecedented opportunity to sophomore and junior year nursing students from all over the world.
13 May 2009 King's Nursing Professor receives RCN Honour
King’s academic honoured by Royal College of Nursing for his outstanding contribution to healthcare.
01 May 2009 The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing The key role that mental health nurses can play in promoting the mental health of the population as a whole is the main message of a new edition of the best selling foundational text for mental health nurses, “The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing”, released this month.
26 May 2009 Leading the way in postgraduate nursing research
The work and successes of postgraduate research nursing students were recently celebrated at a special research symposium at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.
21 May 2009 Inaugural Nursing Summer School 2009 – APPLY NOWThis summer, the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery is offering a unique and unprecedented opportunity to sophomore and junior year nursing students from all over the world.
13 May 2009 King's Nursing Professor receives RCN Honour
King’s academic honoured by Royal College of Nursing for his outstanding contribution to healthcare.
01 May 2009 The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing The key role that mental health nurses can play in promoting the mental health of the population as a whole is the main message of a new edition of the best selling foundational text for mental health nurses, “The Art and Science of Mental Health Nursing”, released this month.
April
15 Apr 2009 King's nurses visit USA in first exchange of its kind
Students at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery are embarking on an exchange with the University of Pennsylvania, USA as part of the first sponsored programme of its kind within nursing education.
01 Apr 2009 RCN Chief becomes Visiting Professor at Florence NIghtingale School of Nursing & Midwifery The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London has announced that Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), is to become a Visiting Professor at the School.
Students at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery are embarking on an exchange with the University of Pennsylvania, USA as part of the first sponsored programme of its kind within nursing education.
01 Apr 2009 RCN Chief becomes Visiting Professor at Florence NIghtingale School of Nursing & Midwifery The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London has announced that Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), is to become a Visiting Professor at the School.
March
02 Mar 2009 Diet and exercise programme for pregnancy
Professors Lucilla Poston, Head of Reproduction & Endocrinology, and Tom Sanders, Head of Nutritional Sciences, have been awarded a £1 million NIHR grant to improve the health of obese pregnant women.
Professors Lucilla Poston, Head of Reproduction & Endocrinology, and Tom Sanders, Head of Nutritional Sciences, have been awarded a £1 million NIHR grant to improve the health of obese pregnant women.
February
24 Feb 2009 CBT to boost workplace performance
Boosting workplace performance will be the central theme addressed by Professor Ian Norman, Associate Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, at the launch this week of a new programme of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) workshops, courses and bespoke educational opportunities.
01 Feb 2009 Alcohol screening intervention in community pharmacies
Research teams from three Schools within the College, in collaboration with Lambeth PTC, are funded to implement and evaluate a brief alcohol screening intervention in community pharmacies.
01 Feb 2009 Better breast cancer care Cutting edge psycho-social research undertaken by academics at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery is enabling the UK charity Breast Cancer Care to plan better services for groups of people with breast cancer who have traditionally been underserved.
Boosting workplace performance will be the central theme addressed by Professor Ian Norman, Associate Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery, at the launch this week of a new programme of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) workshops, courses and bespoke educational opportunities.
01 Feb 2009 Alcohol screening intervention in community pharmacies
Research teams from three Schools within the College, in collaboration with Lambeth PTC, are funded to implement and evaluate a brief alcohol screening intervention in community pharmacies.
01 Feb 2009 Better breast cancer care Cutting edge psycho-social research undertaken by academics at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery is enabling the UK charity Breast Cancer Care to plan better services for groups of people with breast cancer who have traditionally been underserved.
January
20 Jan 2009 Promoting Creativity Creative King’s, a College-wide initiative exploring the notion of creativity and its place in academic life, launches this month.
16 Jan 2009 Palliative Care receives WHO status
The King’s College London Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation has recently been awarded World Health Organisation (WHO) accreditation and has been named a WHO Collaborating Centre for its research, education and clinical care development in palliative care.
05 Jan 2009 CBE for Head of Nursing School The Head of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery Professor Anne Marie Rafferty has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List alongside a list of distinguished Britons for her exceptional services to healthcare.
01 Jan 2009 First Baltic Nursing Conference - Associate Dean gives Keynote Speech Professor Ian Norman gave a keynote paper at the Baltic Contribution to Nursing Research Conference in Klaipeda, Lithuania in January 2009.
01 Jan 2009 Chelsea and Westminster launches partnership with Nursing School The new education and research partnership between the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was officially launched recently with an event at the Hospital.
01 Jan 2009 Alcoholism & Recovery: former TV journalist addresses students at Nursing School Former television journalist and recovering alcoholic Ed Mitchell visited students at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery recently to deliver his personal account of addiction and his ongoing recovery.
01 Jan 2009 King’s midwives attend ceremony at House of Lords Students from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery attended an awards ceremony at the House of Lords recently to be presented with their Iolanthe Midwifery Trust Student Awards.
01 Jan 2009 King’s nurses partner with John Hopkins to drive patient care The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery and the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University are to form an international collaboration to drive the boundaries of nurse-led care and clinical research, and deliver benefits to patients in both the UK and the USA.
01 Jan 2009 New collaboration research nurse shortages and workforce mobility in the Middle East Researchers at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London and the American University of Beirut have been awarded a two year grant by the World Health Organisation’s Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research to investigate how to attract and retain health workers in the Middle East.
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16 Jan 2009 Palliative Care receives WHO status
The King’s College London Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation has recently been awarded World Health Organisation (WHO) accreditation and has been named a WHO Collaborating Centre for its research, education and clinical care development in palliative care.
05 Jan 2009 CBE for Head of Nursing School The Head of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery Professor Anne Marie Rafferty has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List alongside a list of distinguished Britons for her exceptional services to healthcare.
01 Jan 2009 First Baltic Nursing Conference - Associate Dean gives Keynote Speech Professor Ian Norman gave a keynote paper at the Baltic Contribution to Nursing Research Conference in Klaipeda, Lithuania in January 2009.
01 Jan 2009 Chelsea and Westminster launches partnership with Nursing School The new education and research partnership between the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was officially launched recently with an event at the Hospital.
01 Jan 2009 Alcoholism & Recovery: former TV journalist addresses students at Nursing School Former television journalist and recovering alcoholic Ed Mitchell visited students at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery recently to deliver his personal account of addiction and his ongoing recovery.
01 Jan 2009 King’s midwives attend ceremony at House of Lords Students from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery attended an awards ceremony at the House of Lords recently to be presented with their Iolanthe Midwifery Trust Student Awards.
01 Jan 2009 King’s nurses partner with John Hopkins to drive patient care The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery and the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University are to form an international collaboration to drive the boundaries of nurse-led care and clinical research, and deliver benefits to patients in both the UK and the USA.
01 Jan 2009 New collaboration research nurse shortages and workforce mobility in the Middle East Researchers at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London and the American University of Beirut have been awarded a two year grant by the World Health Organisation’s Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research to investigate how to attract and retain health workers in the Middle East.
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