Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>This paper takes a retrospective view of the development and introduction of a formalised triage assessment into the emergency service of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trus
<p>Cardiac arrest is the most acute medical emergency faced by medical, nursing and paramedical staff.
<p>The quality of clinical documentation was examined during a randomised controlled trial of emergency nurse practitioner (ENP) led care (Cooper et al 1999).
<p>THE ARRIVAL OF VICTIMS OF smoke inhalation in emergency departments presents those caring for them with a multiplicity of both poisoning and general medical problems.
<p>The end of the 20th century bore witness to an unprecedented rise in the flow of refugees and asylum seekers to the western world.
<p>Despite recent advancements in treatment for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS continue to seek care i
<p>THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES AN INNOVATIVE PROJECT WHICH TOOK place at Kings College Hospital in 1999.
<p>THE NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE REPRESENT an under-recognised but significant part of the workload of A&E nurses.
<p>Asthma is a common and chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, associated with pronounced health and economic consequences (Patel et al 1997).
<p>Attendance in A&E has continued to rise by 2 per cent annually since 1981.
<p>We were due to start a free standing minor injuries unit (MIU) at a community hospital about four miles away from the main A&E unit linked to the main departmen
<p>On August 20, 1998, at three o’clock in the afternoon, Michael Fisher (not his real name), a 12 year old boy, was brought into the A&E Department with a severe
<p>Accident and emergency units are one of the key interfaces between patients and the health service. In addition, A&E units have to accommodate a diverse range of activity and face a considerable amount of uncertainty as to the demands that will be put upon them at any one time.
<p>Ingestion of plant material is a relatively common cause of enquiry to poisons information centres. Enquiries about bulbs such as daffodil and snowdrop, are common in the spring and autumn. Most plant enquiries occur in the autumn when many plants are in fruit.
<p>The nurse practitioner (NP) concept differs most obviously from conventional nursing practice in that the NP sees patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health care problems as the first point of contact.
<p>While studying for my Masters in education, I have been encouraged to examine how I teach or facilitate learning, and to move away from the traditional method of ‘passive transmission of knowledge in pre digested chunks’ (Burnard 1992), as well as to consider alternative methods such as
<p>The prefix ‘tele’ means distance in Greek, and so telemedicine means delivering health care at a distance.
<p>The objective of task orientated touch in trauma resuscitation is to bring about a recognised physical therapeutic result.
