Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>Acute upper respiratory infection, also known as the common cold, remains one of the most recurring infections in modern society, afflicting adults between two and four
<p>This article focuses on emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) and the streaming of emergency care.
<p>The RCN A&E Nursing Association initiated and developed the concept of a faculty in response to a lack of a clearly defined career framework in emergency nursin
<p>Bleeding in early pregnancy is a traumatic experience for women who are expecting the birth of normal healthy babies.
<p>Home improvement is an increasingly popular pastime and there is a wide range of decorating DIY products available to the general public.
<p>This article describes how an A&E department has responded to increasing service pressures to manage A&E patient throughput more effectively, and consid
<p>As a mental health development nurse working at Ipswich Hospital’s A&E department, my role involves assessing patients with mental health problems, providing be
<p>NICOLA BATES highlights the dangers associated with the management of diabetes</p>
<p>Thousands of people in the UK sustain injuries every day.
<p>Early defibrillation is accepted as essential to revert potential life threatening ventricular arrhythmia of ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tac
<p>Each year, the London Centre of the National Poisons Information Service receives many thousands of enquiries about children, aged five years or less, who have eaten so
<p>Emergency departments present multiple composite realities providing emergency nurses with rich and textual experiences endorsed by human interaction.
<p>Emergency departments are notoriously busy clinical areas with increasing pressure from government health reforms (DoH 2001). In spite of these pressures, however, clinical research must not lose its professional profile.
<p>The assessment of pain in children is a subject that has been widely discussed, and undoubtedly huge developments in its efficacy have been achieved through the production of various pain assessment tools.
<p>Paracetamol is an analgesic and antipyretic agent that became available in the UK in 1956. Since then it has replaced other drugs, such as aspirin, as the popular choice for pain relief and is now the most widely used analgesic in the UK.
<p>Adolescence is a time of great change, physically, psychologically and socially (Knight and Rush 1998). Emerging sexuality, the strive for independence, and simply wanting to ‘fit in’ are all issues which make the adolescent years confusing and challenging.</p>
<p>Forging links between theory and practice in a bid to affirm evidenced based practice (EBP) is a central component of clinical governance (Moores 1999).
<p>SAPAL TACHAKRA addresses the training and expertise of emergency nurse practitioners in diagnosing peripheral skeletal radiological abnormalities accurately</p>
