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<p>A moist environment provides the optimum conditions for wound healing, but maintaining control of exudate and preventing its contact with the surrounding skin remain a
<p>Background Protocol-based care is increasingly being used to deliver collaborative, integrated and improved patient-centred care, based on the best available evidence.
<p>THE INTRODUCTION of the new childhood vaccine in September 2004 is a welcome development in the immunisation programme.
<p>Aim This literature review examines best practice in caring for those who have been bereaved suddenly in acute care settings.
<p>Aim To evaluate a clinical leadership initiative in mental health and care of older people settings.</p> <p>Method Clinical leaders (n=15), clinical nurse m
<p>Aim The aim of this research is to gain a more complete understanding of the impact of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) on women.</p> <p>Method This research use
<p>Background This article reviews the nurse’s role in respiratory care in community settings.
<p>This article discusses the role of larval therapy as an alternative to conventional treatment for acute or chronic wounds that respond poorly to conventional treatment
<p>Sharps injuries are one of the main types of accident sustained by NHS staff.
<p>Pregnancy and the puerperium can bring many emotional, physical and social changes to the mother, her partner and the rest of the family.
<p>Aim To investigate factors that have influenced A&E departments, minor injury units (MlUs) and walk-in centres (WICs) on whether or not to send nurse practition
<p>This article examines the first stages of a project to address problems in the quality of students’ clinical experience after consultation with senior nurses at a large
<p>This article explores the challenges nurses face when caring for patients with wounds in a palliative care context.
This article aims to increase the understanding of therapeutic touch (TT) and its role in supporting patients with cancer through the different stages of illness.
<p>Policies interact and have direct and indirect consequences resulting in both short-term and longer-term effects on the working lives of professionals, the care they offer and the education needed by future generations of staff.
<p>This article describes the dual nature of nursing research. It describes how qualitative research can present the patient’s experience in a way that quantitative research cannot, but warns against over-reliance on qualitative methods.
Background This article analyses the changes made to the role of the healthcare assistant (HCA) in the British healthcare system and identifies when and why these changes occurred.
<p>This article examines the issue of plagiarism by nursing students and academics in British universities and highlights how electronic developments such as the internet and word processing have made it easier.
