??This is the first in a series of Tweetchats aimed at care home nurses.  For those care home nurses not yet on Twitter please help them to discover the value by accessing the WeCommunities Care Homes TwitterKit HERE ??   Nursing home ‘nursing' is probably one of the most undervalued career paths in the nursing profession. NHS nurses are often unaware that nursing home work and care can provide excellent job satisfaction and robust life long career opportunities.    A unique nursing role.Great nursing home care encompass everything from supported living where people with complex care histories are supported to live independently within a communal home environment, through to managing the holistic social and clinical needs of people with sev ...

This Twitter Chat will discuss the issue of intimate partner abuse (IPA) occurring within the house bound population cared for by the District Nursing Service. Some people call IPA; domestic abuse or domestic violence, buttonight’s chat will use the acronym IPA. This chat invites contributions from professionals who have knowledge or experiences of intimate partner abuse and are employed or experienced within community and district nursing services at any professional level. More than 250 000 people aged 66+ annually report maltreatment from a family member (NICE, 2014). More than half of these individuals’ state that a spouse or partner is the perpetrator. Whilst both men and women report violence by their partner, women are disproportiona ...