The competency framework for nurses working in Parkinson’s disease management

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This revised competency framework describes the knowledge and skills required by nurses to manage the care of people living with Parkinson’s disease in any healthcare setting and offers signposts for good practice. It addresses a number of political and professional issues, including Agenda for Change (DH, 1999), the need for leadership in nursing, the need for the development of standards, fi tness for practice and the increased focus on work-based and lifelong learning and clinical supervision for nurses. This revised document has now also been mapped to the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework... _{Read the whole document}

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NON MOTOR SYMPTOMS OF PD: TREATMENT & QUALITY OF LIFE

Saturday 20th March 2010, Royal Society of Medicine, London

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