Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>After more than a century, aspirin remains one of the most popular drugs in the world.
<p>The cortices of the adrenal glands produce Cortisol and insufficient circulating levels of cortisol is virtually incompatible with life.
<p>Children abused through prostitution is a poorly understood and under researched area of child protection (Linehan 1997, Barrett and Beckett 1996).
<p>For some time the A&E department at Ipswich had been using either a general hospital observation chart or a locally designed trauma chart for critical care pati
<p>Paraphenylenediamine (p-phenylenediamine, PPD) is a colourless/slightly pink, grey or yellow crystalline solid (lumps or powder).
<p>Handover is an important nursing ritual, essential for continuity of care (Kennedy 1999), and as nurses we should be aiming to improve the efficiency of handover in the
<p>Chloe the triage nurse thought the man in front of her was obviously crazy. He was looking about him wildly and talking about messages beamed by the radio.
<p>Emergency nurses are pivotal to the management of patients with an acute coronary syndrome and the national service framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease has furth
<p>Mothballs are not as commonly used as they were in the past, but there are still available.
<p>Ankle sprains remain one of emergency departments’ most frequently presenting complaints.
<p>The Department of Health (England) document Reforming Emergency Care (DoH 2001) suggests A&E nurses should take a new approach to address the problems of long w
<p>This article will discuss whether a chartered physiotherapist is a useful health care professional in the treatment of soft tissue injuries (STI) to which the emergency
<p>The United Kingdom poisons information service for the medical profession started in 1961 in Leeds. The UK government recognised the need for a service to assist medical staff to diagnose and treat poisoned patients.
<p>Although once reserved for the seriously ill (Clancy and Eisenberg 1997), the emergency department (ED) has evolved as the principal provider of primary care with 40 per cent to 50 per cent of patients seeking care that does not require ED services (O’Brien et al 1997; Kellermann 1994).
<p>Emergency care is in the media spotlight, but is also in the unenviable position of facing an increasing workload (Ball et al 2000) with tighter government targets, for example, to reduce patient waiting times to be received into A&E or to be admitted to the appropriate area for
<p>For many years, emergency departments have encountered the problems of minor injury and illness patients waiting for long periods of time to see a doctor. These problems have been slightly reduced by employing emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) to treat minor injuries (Blunt 1998).
<p>Personnel working in the pre-hospital field often face situations that place high demands on their creativity and competence. Care is to be given in all contexts that may involve patients with physical, psychological and social problems.
<p>Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions; it has been suggested that one in fifty people will have more than one epileptic convulsion in their lifetime, probably requiring treatment with antiepileptic medication (Morrow and Routledge 1989).
