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<p>The ‘plight’ of older people in A&E departments has received much media coverage in the past few years.
<p>New guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is set to cut dramatically the number of hospital admissions resulting from head injury and
<p>Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a common event and is a major cause of unexpected death in developed countries.
<p>Ankle injuries in the UK account for many patients attending A&E departments.
<p>An internet and library literature search was undertaken to discover current best practice in ankle sprain management.
<p>Plants and plant extracts can adversely affect the skin in several ways that can be all too familiar, but sometimes surprising.
<p>Audit is a word that can conjure thoughts of facts and figures that some nurses may struggle to relate to clinical practice.
<p>This, the last of three literature reviews, builds on previous articles concerned with the stressors and stresses of pre-deployment (Wild 2003a) and deployment (Wild 20
<p>For most emergency nurses, rescue is something that happens in the pre-hospital phase of patient management.
<p>Sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate are widely used both pharmaceutical and in the home.
<p>Last month’s Emergency Nurse article by Wild (2003) presented literature concerning the potential stressors and stresses of going to war, pre-deployment to war in gener
<p>Mercury is a naturally occurring element that is most familiar in its metallic form as the silver grey liquid, known as quicksilver, in thermometers and sphygmomanomete
<p>The Department of Health documents, The NHS Plan (DoH 2000) and Reforming Emergency Care (DoH 2001), both highlight a traditional system of service provision that is inadequate, lacking in national standards, in drastic need of modernisation and unable to cope with the demands placed upo
<p>During the Gulf War (GW) 1991, many NHS hospitals were placed on standby to receive casualties evacuated from Saudi Arabia.
<p>Since the terrorist attack on the US on September 11 2001 and the increasing prevalence of global terrorist activity including threats to the UK, attention has focused on the threat of chemical and biological warfare.
<p>This paper reports on a study undertaken to obtain a ‘snapshot’ of ENP education and training and to consider related issues. Questionnaires were distributed to delegates at the 2001 RCN A&E Nursing Association annual conference.</p>
<p>The first paper in this two-part series on the faculty of emergency nursing (FEN) pilot project was published in last month’s Emergency Nurse (Rowe and Crouch 2003). It outlined the background to FEN development, the scope of the pilot and the methodologies employed.
<p>This article focuses on emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) and the streaming of emergency care. It considers management issues associated with the introduction of an ENP service, such as recruitment, autonomy and empowerment, expanding roles and future developments.
