Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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<p>Current trends suggest firearms related incidents in the United States will, by the year 2003, overtake road traffic accidents as a cause of death.
<p>Ophthalmic patients present to the A&E department with a wide range of problems; their treatment, however, generally involves a small range of ophthalmic medica
<p>This is a case study of the examination and treatment of a 20 year old male, fork-lift truck driver, named ‘John’, who sustained a depressed fracture of his right zygom
<p>Hugh McDonald is an emergency nurse practitioner with the authority to manage a defined group of patients who present to A&E with a specific range of complaints
<p>This article discusses meningococcal disease and outlines the role of the nurse in treating patients who may suffer from meningitis, one of the illnesses caused by meni
<p>The majority of eye injuries are superficial in nature and transient in their effects but place considerable demands on A&E services (MacEwan 1989).
<p>During recent years the term ‘trauma score’ has become commonplace in the everyday language of the A&E department.
<p>A&E nursing has been one of the most fervent supporters of the development of nurse practitioners, with some 98 A&E departments in the UK (36 per cent o
<p>In an article in last month’s Emergency Nurse, the need for universal precautions was identified to protect both health care workers (HCWs) and patients from the risk o
<p>This article outlines the nurse’s role in treating people who are experiencing an anaphylactic reaction. It originally appeared in Nursing Standard (1998) 12,47,49-55.
<p>Ann Jacobs, the A&E Sister, was clearly tired, not to mention irritated, to be called to reception to deal with the young woman who was shouting at the receptio
<p>This article gives a description of the techniques and equipment needed in order to assess patients who present to the A&E with eye problems.
<p>About three million children attend A&E departments each year (Selley 1991). The number of attendees is greater within inner cities, where at least one in five children attend A&E per annum.
<p>Universal precautions is the term used to describe practices taken to reduce the spread of blood borne viruses. It relates to the handling of contaminated equipment and material in such a manner as to prevent the transmission of infection to patients and healthcare workers.
<p>This article discusses burns, with particular emphasis on minor burn injuries, and the role nurses can play in managing such injuries</p>
<p>Alzheimer’s disease was first mentioned as a specific entity in an American nursing textbook in the year:</p> a)<p>1949</p> b)<p>1962</p> c)<p>1975</p> d)<p>1991</p>
<p>A child arrives in A&E holding a blood stained cloth to his head. He looks worried and upset. His mother states that he has cut his head. ‘Will it need stitches?,’ she asks. The child starts to cry and states plaintively: ‘I don’t want a needle.’</p>
<p>This paper will discuss how effectively we communicate as healthcare professionals with specific reference to the management of trauma patients and their relatives. The discussion will be twofold.</p>
