Eligible staff will soon be able to claim back more money – find out what it means for you
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<p>This article, the fourth of eight in the health promotion series, aims to help nurses support clients make changes in their smoking and dietary behaviours.</p>
<p>Aim To identify the most appropriate method of breaking news of a patient’s death to unrelated stem cell donors, and to establish best practice guidelines based on the
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Accurate documentation is essential to maintain continuity and inform health professionals of ongoing care and treatment. It also provides legal evidence.
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This article discusses the assessment and management of patients with leg ulcers, focusing on venous, arterial and mixed aetiology u
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This article describes the development of a nurse-led complex wound clinic in Lincolnshire in April 2003, and describes one patient’
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Aim To ascertain whether a lack of inter-rater reliability with the original Waterlow (1996) pressure ul
<p>This article examines the development of the competency based approach to assessment in practice within pre-registration nursing.
<p>The aim of this article, the second in the health promotion series, is to highlight the importance of assessing clients’ motivation and readiness to change, and to offe
<p>This article reviews the policy implications associated with the creation of nurse entrepreneurs, the levels of progress achieved and the major obstacles to developing
<p>Nurse prescribing in mental health and learning disability services is a new development.
<p>This article, the first in the series of eight articles on health promotion, introduces nurses in clinical practice to the principles and practice of facilitating behav
<p>This article, the third of eight in the health promotion series, aims to offer nurses strategies to help clients avoid relapsing into previous behaviour patterns follow
<p>It is widely argued that nurse learners should learn to become reflective practitioners and that self-assessment plays a part in this (Ekebergh et al 2004, Thorpe 2004). Problems arise, however, when consideration is given to just how this might be achieved.
<p>Background Depression and anxiety are common after myocardial infarction (MI) and cardiac surgery and may adversely affect outcome. A comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation service needs to include psychological input as well as education and exercise training.
<p>Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder with potentially fatal cardiovascular complications. These risks can be reduced by early diagnosis, appropriate review and timely intervention. Care of patients with Marfan syndrome should be multidisciplinary and multiprofessional.
<p>More than three million blood components are transfused every year in the UK, providing life-saving and life-enhancing treatment to thousands of patients (McClelland 2001).
<p>Aims To ascertain whether students found reflection to be a meaningful activity, whether there are perceived benefits associated with reflective practice and whether it is a valid process on which to assess the outcomes of a course relating to the competencies of specialist practice.<
<p>This article reviews the aims and purposes of the tort system in clinical negligence and outlines the main criticisms of the way the system provides compensation to patients.
