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Aim To explore the attitudes of multidisciplinary team members to nurse prescribing and to establish its perceived advantages and disadvantages
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Faced with staff shortages and a recognition that the core health surveillance system in schools could not be sustained, school nurs
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Infectious disease is caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and micro-organisms including the mycoplasmas, rickettsiae and ch
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Hip protectors are used in the preventive management of older people who are at risk of fracturing their hip after a fall.
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This article describes the impact on mental health services in Russia of a training course for psychiatric nurses in the management
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Background Accurate assessments of pain help healthcare professionals to identify its source and manage it appropriately.
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This article reviews the literature on primary care settings as learning environments, and examines how the learning opportunities a
Background The prevention and treatment of post-operative pain, and the promotion of comfort are the challenges facing practitioners working in
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The provision of clinical skills facilities in nursing and medical education centres has become more common (
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Aim To establish the level and type of skin problems in people with obesity and the extent to which they sought advice on their problem.
Aim To measure the effect of education on the knowledge of home carers in maintaining faecal continence for people with dementia.
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Childhood and teenage pregnancy poses a significant social and health problem in the UK and it has implications for nurses across a
A number of locally organised schemes now exist to help healthcare assistants access programmes leading to qualified nursing status. Although some schemes have been operating for some time, little has been done to evaluate their effectiveness.
This article describes the development of a palliative care outreach service by two nurse practitioners into ten community hospitals.
All qualified nurses are involved in teaching and learning. This article presents four vignettes of adult learners training to be nurses and examines the factors that may be inhibiting their learning.
Aim To examine the accuracy of data collected on pressure ulcer incidence. A system for monitoring incidence has been in place since 1991 at a medium-sized hospital trust.
This article describes the approach taken to introduce and develop the role of the tissue viability nursing assistant in the tissue viability team at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a minimally invasive procedure used to stabilise vertebral compression fractures caused by osteoporosis, haemangioma, myeloma, metastases and bone cysts.
