RCN says flat rate does not ‘accurately reflect the level of responsibility expected of staff’
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This article discusses approaches to dealing with transcultural care.
<p>Aim To identify factors that influence nurses’ practice in apron use during direct patient care.</p> <p>Method A small-scale documentary analysis of a purpo
<p>This article examines professional stakeholders’ involvement in the development of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines.
<p>This article re-evaluates the place of intuition in the hierarchy of nursing skills in the light of recent neuro-scientific findings.
<p>Unconscious patients are nursed in a variety of clinical settings and therefore it is necessary for all nurses to assess, plan and implement the nursing care of this vu
This article re-evaluates the place of intuition in the hierarchy of nursing skills in the light of recent neuro-scientific findings
<p>This article provides a brief introduction to a seven-week series of articles that are underpinned by a competence-based genetics education framework.
<p>This article is the first in a series of seven which examine competence standards for nurses, midwives and health visitors in relation to genetics.
<p>This article discusses developments in prescribing legislation in relation to non-prescription medicines.
<p>Aim To investigate the effectiveness of a new community nursing model of care for clients with chronic leg ulcers in terms of levels of pain and ulcer healing.</p>
<p>Aim To evaluate the efficacy of a health promotion initiative on men’s knowledge of testicular cancer and self-examination rates.</p> <p>Method A quasi-expe
<p>Types of prescribing for non-medical staff are discussed and clarifications made regarding the current overlap in six forms of prescribing and administration of medicat
<p>Over the past 40 years, significant advances have been made in the diagnosis and management of congenital heart defects.
<p>Many thousands of urinary tract infections (UTIs) are linked to the insertion of an indwelling urethral catheter (Saint et al 2000). Catheterisation is often prolonged unnecessarily (Saint et al 2002), thereby increasing the infection risk.
This article discusses the reasons why deaf patients might become angry and outlines de-escalation techniques that could be used by nurses when caring for these patients.
This article provides an overview of the knowledge and skills required for peripheral venous cannulation, including anatomy and physiology, psychology, consent, vein selection, device selection, infection control, insertion technique, device securement
Cardiovascular diseases exert a huge burden on individuals and society, with coronary heart disease (CHD) the single most common cause of death in the United Kingdom and other developed countries (British Heart Foundation
<p>This article examines spirometry as a method of detecting lung disease, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods of producing an accurate assessment and identifying acceptable traces are outlined, and contraindications are discussed.</p>
