Derby City General Hospital backs 'Professional Concern' to improve patients' basic care
A group of 24 retired nurses, most of whom trained back in the 1960s and 1970s, have come together to try and highlight the importance of basic care in nursing. Called 'Professional Concern', their wisdom is being used by staff at the city's new hospital.
- A room with a view - Surroundings
- Are you sitting comfortably - Physical comfort
- Cleanliness is next to godliness - hygeine
- Food glorious food - Appetising food
- Getting to know you - Communication
- It's childsplay - All about children
- Let me entertain you - Coping with boredom
- Pleased to meet you - The welcome
- Relatively speaking - Relatives and carers
- The waiting game - Waiting rooms
- There's no place like home - Going home
- Trumpet voluntary - All about volunteers
- A death in the family - Empathy and compassion
- Long Term Care - The long and winding road
- Mobility - Getting there