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IT IS NOW recognised that the patient’s perspective is important in the planning and evaluation of health care.
This week’s National Association of Theatre Nurses’ annual congress will be an opportunity to explore how the changes in theatre nurs
Patients undergoing surgery run the added risk of inadvertent hypothermia.
Research into the importance of skin cleansing before venepuncture is inconclusive.
<p>If it's October it must be the annual congress of the National Association of Theatre Nurses (NATN) in the beautiful spa town of Harrogate in Yorkshire.
<p>THE NATIONAL Lecturer Practitioner Forum (NLPF), based at the Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS) in London, has a national database of lecturer practitioners from all
Turning patients who are immobile is usually undertaken expressly to prevent pressure sores.
Risk assessment tools for pressure sores are commonplace in most nursing settings.
Ulceration of the lower extremities is one of the most important medicosocial problems (Skobelkin
<p>Rheumatoid arthritis is rarely seen as a serious public health issue, yet it is the single largest cause of disability in the UK (Badley and Tennant 1993).
Filming people in hospital poses ethical problems for researchers, film-makers and healthcare staff.
I DO NOT BELIEVE that an international language (Clark 1999a) can take account of what nursing
<p>FOR THE government's clinical governance agenda to become a reality, all nurses must be equipped with the skills to appraise critically the quality of research evidence and evaluate the quality of the care they deliver.
<p>A small-scale study carried out by student nurses revealed ward curtains to be a source of contaminants and bacteria, including MRSA. Patients and medical staff can contaminate and be contaminated by bacteria which may be a source of cross-infection.
<p>‘Getting into the business: how nurses can make a difference’ is the final continuing professional development article related to the 1999 Clinical Practice & Management Awards, a joint initiative between the RCN, Smith & Nephew and Nursing Standard.
If nurses are going to be able to help relatives meet their need for hope, they must first develop a better understanding of the concept and what it means for relatives.
THE RATHER personalised debate over nursing language between June Clark and Liam Clarke in Nursing Standard recently is curious, in that neither of these distinguished scholars acknowledges the existing critical discussions of these iss
<p> MEDICAL GLOVESplay a dual role as a barrier for personal protection and in the prevention of transmission of infection.
