The Parkinson’s association in your country may also be able to provide information based on members’ experiences. The EPDA website [www.epda.eu.com] contains the contact details for European Parkinson's disease organisations and international Parkinson’s organisations.
Your Parkinson’s association may also advise and provide information and educational opportunities for health professionals.
Carole Joint discusses the role of the specialist nurse in the surgical treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.
Many older people with Parkinson’s disease live in nursing and residential homes, where often the staff are ill-prepared for their particular problems. Gun Lindhal and Susanna Lindvall describe how Parkinson's nurse specialists have tackled this problem in Sweden.
Randi Hjellset talks to Mary Fogarty about the life of a Parkinson's nurse in Norway
Kirsten Turner describes how clinical supervision can bring benefits to patient care
A project involving the training of community pharmacists to deal specifically with the medication problems of people with PD has recently been launched.
Scottish PDNSs travel far and wide to see their patients. Mary Fogarty talks to two of them and discovers their time is divided between hospital, community and training
Interview with neurologist Professor Castro Caldas on training of nurses in areas like PD in Portugal.
Interview with nurse Alba Bonetti about her work in a PD clinic and how she hopes to improve the situation of PD management in Italy.
The PDNS concept has had to develop quickly in recent years. Chair of the EPNN Kirsten Turner explains exactly what the role entails in England.
Dutch PDNS Lidy Tinselboer discusses the development of guidelines for managing Parkinson's disease in the Netherlands
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue04.pdf - Train nursing home staff how to care for PD patients – P 6
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue04.pdf - A Nordic nurse’s life – P 9
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue04.pdf - Clinical supervision for PD support services – P 15-16
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue03.pdf - Community pharmacy patient care – P 4
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue02.pdf - Scottish nurses out into the community – P 14-15
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue02.pdf - PD training for Portuguese nurses – P 16
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue02.pdf - In search of the Colossus (PD nurses in Italy) – P 17
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue01.pdf - Working as a PDNS in England – P 4-5
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue01.pdf - Stop, look and listen: the right way to approach nursing guidelines – P 6-7
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/epnnJournal/issue01.pdf - Nurses ready and willing (Portugal) – P 8
http://www.epda.eu.com/pdfs/focusMagazine/issue20.pdf - How the PD team approach works best – P 6-7
