Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>Shortening waiting times in A&E departments is high on the government agenda.
<p>Staff working in London teaching hospitals rarely see cases of cold induced injuries in men who are young and fit.
<p>Urinary retention is the most common urological emergency encountered by nursing staff in A&E.
<p>Nurses based in an emergency assessment area at Birmingham Heartlands and Soli-hull NHS Trust have developed a nurse led service for GPs by redirecting their referrals
<p>Ankle sprains are among the most common injuries seen in A&E, and so constitute a large part of emergency nurse practitioner (ENP) workload.
<p>In this paper we describe the thinking behind a three-year pilot development programme for five consultant nurses across an emergency care system.</p>
<p>Despite multidisciplinary approaches to fire prevention, fires continue to cause casualties and fatalities (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2001).
<p>There are an estimated 1.9 million adults with asthma in the UK, equating to about 7 per cent of the population (Bourke and Brewis 1998, Davies-Gray 2000).
<p>There are more than 30,000 children on the child protection register (CPR) (NSPCC 2003) in the UK today, yet these known statistics are only a fraction of the total num
<p>Malaria, historically one of the earliest recorded parasitic diseases to affect people, continues to be a major threat to health worldwide.
<p>When looking after patients in A&E who present with acute coronary syndrome there are many things to do, particularly in the event of acute myocardial infarctio
<p>The impact of specialist nurses on the skill retention, expertise and job satisfaction of ‘generalist’ nurses, and of course on patient experience and outcome, continue
<p>Crush syndrome remains rare in European practice but is common in areas of civil disorder and where society has given way to civil war or natural disaster.
<p>Radical reforms are being implemented in A&E to manage ever growing pressures and ever longer waiting times.
<p>Aim: To assess the ability of nurses using the Manchester Triage System (MTS) to identify those patients with chest pain requiring immediate electrocardiogram (ECG) and physician assessment within ten minutes.</p> <p>Method: A four-week prospective cohort of all patients atte
<p>There is mounting interest in the United Kingdom and the United States in the education of advanced practice nurses (APNs) and their roles, especially those related to the provision of health care and other services in emergency departments.
<p>This paper sets out to demonstrate the need for accurate nursing assessment of patients admitted to A&E after acute myocardial infarction (MI). It considers the issues of communication, pain relief and the need for prompt thrombolysis in the absence of contraindications.
<p>Alcohol intoxication is a major contributing factor for admission to A&E departments. Wernicke’s encephalopathy (WE) is a serious and potentially fatal condition associated with chronic alcohol misuse and, according to Cook et al (1998), poorly managed by healthcare providers.
