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Tag: HIV
TV interview: Princess Diana and HIV
Some of my WordPress pages have been discovered – twice – by filming companies! The first, resulted in an interview with the wonderful Rupert Everrett. Then, in the week I celebrated my 30th anniversary of starting as a nurse on an HIV ward, I was interviewed for a documentary series on the Royal House of Windsor.
Hoc est corpus … hic est sanguinis
Similar to Damian’s story, Cosmo was a patient on the same ward, in and out with every new opportunistic infection or tumour his HIV could lay its grubby hands on. In the end he developed severe Kaposi’s sarcoma, with the classic bodily marks, from the tip of his nose, then dotted all over his body,…
Compassion in nursing care – we’re nothing without it!
Over the past few years, nurses and midwives in the UK have been reminded of the “6 Cs” of nursing care. I first heard my friend Joanne Bosanquet (MBE, Queen’s Nurse, Deputy Chief Nurse, Public Health England) promote the model. On the one hand, it’s great – especially for those new to the profession, to…