Nurses want longer visiting hours

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25 September 2011 Last updated at 13:24 GMT The Royal College of Nursing said it did not want relatives performing nurses' tasks Hospital visiting times should be extended so patients' relatives can become more involved in their care, the Royal College of Nursing has said.

RCN head Peter Carter said he did not want relatives performing tasks nurses were employed to carry out, but that there were "real benefits" for patients when family members helped with care.

The Department of Health said family help needed to be alongside NHS care.

But patients' groups warned such a move could be "the tip of the iceberg".

'Amazing work'

Dr Carter, the RCN's general secretary, said the college was not suggesting families be compelled to carry out any tasks.

"We know that there are real benefits for patients where relatives can get involved in care, if that is what both the patient and family want," he said.

"We know from areas such as children's care that having familiar people involved at mealtimes for example can make hospital stays in particular less stressful for all concerned.

"What we would like to see is flexibility to allow relatives to help make patients comfortable, such as extending visiting times."

Department of Health chief nursing officer Christine Beasley praised the "amazing work" work of carers and relatives and welcomed their help but added: "This must be in addition to NHS care, not instead of it.

"Nurses should spend their time caring for patients and it is important to look at the way wards are run to help ensure this happens."

"I expect all hospitals to ensure that they are providing safe, high quality nursing care because this must be at the heart of the NHS."

Training call

But Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy said patient care - including helping with feeding and taking patients to the toilet - should be carried out by nurses.

"It is just the tip of the iceberg," she said. "Where will we draw the line?"

She added that some patients would not have families nearby or with the time to help out.

If there were not enough nurses to provide the care, then more nurses needed to be employed, she said.

Earlier this week, Dr Carter said the NHS had become too reliant on healthcare assistants who often end up doing more than the basic tasks they were employed to do.

He recommended better training and regulation of health care assistants.

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Nurses want longer visiting hours

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
25 September 2011 Last updated at 13:24 GMT The Royal College of Nursing said it did not want relatives performing nurses' tasks Hospital visiting times should be extended so patients' relatives can become more involved in their care, the Royal College of Nursing has said.

RCN head Peter Carter said he did not want relatives performing tasks nurses were employed to carry out, but that there were "real benefits" for patients when family members helped with care.

The Department of Health said family help needed to be alongside NHS care.

But patients' groups warned such a move could be "the tip of the iceberg".

'Amazing work'

Dr Carter, the RCN's general secretary, said the college was not suggesting families be compelled to carry out any tasks.

"We know that there are real benefits for patients where relatives can get involved in care, if that is what both the patient and family want," he said.

"We know from areas such as children's care that having familiar people involved at mealtimes for example can make hospital stays in particular less stressful for all concerned.

"What we would like to see is flexibility to allow relatives to help make patients comfortable, such as extending visiting times."

Department of Health chief nursing officer Christine Beasley praised the "amazing work" work of carers and relatives and welcomed their help but added: "This must be in addition to NHS care, not instead of it.

"Nurses should spend their time caring for patients and it is important to look at the way wards are run to help ensure this happens."

"I expect all hospitals to ensure that they are providing safe, high quality nursing care because this must be at the heart of the NHS."

Training call

But Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy said patient care - including helping with feeding and taking patients to the toilet - should be carried out by nurses.

"It is just the tip of the iceberg," she said. "Where will we draw the line?"

She added that some patients would not have families nearby or with the time to help out.

If there were not enough nurses to provide the care, then more nurses needed to be employed, she said.

Earlier this week, Dr Carter said the NHS had become too reliant on healthcare assistants who often end up doing more than the basic tasks they were employed to do.

He recommended better training and regulation of health care assistants.

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Al Gore's '24 Hours' On Climate Change

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Former Vice President Al Gore trains a group of presenters for the 24 Hours of Reality project. The online program will stream live online from 24 locations worldwide.
Courtesy of the Climate Reality Project Former Vice President Al Gore trains a group of presenters for the 24 Hours of Reality project. The online program will stream live online from 24 locations worldwide.
Former Vice President Al Gore has spent much of the last decade on advocacy for environmental issues. He won an Oscar for his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. In 2007, he received the Nobel Peace Prize along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Gore kicks off a new project today designed to increase awareness around the issue of climate change. 24 Hours of Reality, a 24-hour live online event, will offer local perspectives on the impact of climate change from 24 locations around the world.
In the years since An Inconvenient Truth, polls show the American public has become increasingly skeptical about whether humans are the cause of rising global temperatures. Gore hopes that the overwhelming scientific consensus around climate change will help convince skeptics that it is prudent to respond.
"If 98 doctors told you you had a heart condition that required you to make some changes and two doctors say, 'Don't worry about it,' ... hopefully you'd go with the 98," Gore tells NPR's Neal Conan. "That's the condition we're in now."
Gore also argues that many companies and individuals are making positive changes, purely on economic grounds. "There are a great many people and businesses that don't care to engage in discussion or debate about climate science who are going ahead right now to become more efficient — cut their emissions, cut their costs — and in the process they're becoming more profitable, most often."
The former vice president is also hopeful that there will come a time when what he considers the sheer evidence of climate change, like extreme weather events, will help penetrate resistance. "I saw this as a child growing up ... in the American South during the civil rights revolution," he says, "where individuals who were so resistant [to] eliminating the laws justifying discrimination did actually change when they really looked deeply into their own hearts and confronted the reality of the situation."
Climate scientists themselves have often not helped their own cause, Gore concedes. While he lauds skilled science communicators like the late Carl Sagan and Bill Nye "The Science Guy," "by and large, scientists often do not feel comfortable playing that role ... many of them are not comfortable in the political process of conducting a political dialogue," he says. "The more engaging and charismatic and personable scientists can get involved in telling the world about what they are finding, the better."

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