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 Support workers and nursing and healthcare assistants at UHNM can get the latest issues of the British Journal of Healthcare Assistants sent straight to their inbox.

This journal focuses on nursing and healthcare assistants as well as assistant practitioners. You'll find articles to help you in your work and support your career development. View the latest issue online here.

Highlighted Articles

Here's a flavour of the articles you can read.

Type 2 diabetes in adults: an overview

Healthcare assistants will routinely encounter patients living with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, and may be involved in the assessment and long-term management process as part of their day to day practice. Therefore, it is important for healthcare assistants to understand the pathophysiology and causative factors of the condition to enable better treatment and management plans, and provide safe and effective care.

Men's health: an introduction

This article, the first in the series on men's health, provides an introduction to the importance of the topic and discusses different approaches to men's health conditions and inclusive language and terminology for healthcare support workers to be mindful of.

Standards of proficiency for nursing associates: the six platforms

This article, the first in the three-part series examining the Nursing Midwifery Council's standards of proficiency for nursing associates, will discuss the six platforms that cover accountability, health promotion and prevention of ill health, providing and monitoring care, teamwork, safety and quality of care, and integrated care. 

In this article, the author shares her personal story about finding her passion in nursing at the age of 40 years, and navigating university and familial struggles to achieve her dream.

Get the latest issues sent to your inbox

You can sign-up to our KnowledgeShare current awareness service and we can set up an alert so that you get a notification of the table of contents (ToC) of the latest issue. This will include details about the articles in that issue with a link to the full-text where you can read it online. Please complete this request form and we'll set everything up for you.

To access the full-text you will need an NHS OpenAthens username / password. You can register by completing the online form here.

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