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<p>Healthy Respect is a Scottish Executive funded National Health Demonstration Project, which addresses young people’s sexual health.
<p>The ability to carry out a neurovascular assessment on a patient’s limb is an important skill for all registered nurses.
<p>This article explores the management of skeletal pin sites focusing on the research that underpins current practice.
<p>Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health threat that no country is exempt from.
<p>As part of Nursing Standard’s clinical skills series, this article presents an overview of the structure and function of the eye, including ocular adnexal structures.
<p>Hepatitis C is a chronic viral infection, which can progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, liver cancer and death.
<p>This article reviews the physiological principles underlying the use of the pulmonary artery (PA) catheter.
<p>As part of Nursing Standards clinical skills series, this article discusses how to apply graduated elastic compression stockings, which are used as a prophylactic metho
<p>Results from a national comparative audit of bedside transfusion practice show that patients in the UK are at risk of misidentification and poor monitoring when undergo
<p>This article, the fourth in a series of articles relating to clinical skills in nursing, outlines the procedure of urethral meatal cleansing.
<p>This article describes the management of patients with eczema and emphasises how to assess the skin and prescribe treatments appropriately.</p>
<p>The development of a new inpatient hospice unit provided a valuable opportunity to consider ways in which nursing care is defined and documented.
<p>This article, part of Nursing Standard’s clinical skills series, describes the process of inserting a nasogastric tube in adults for enteral feeding.
<p>This article describes how staff working in a genitourinary medicine (GUM) department improved its service for patients. The article outlines an action research project which focused on asking patients to complete a satisfaction questionnaire.
<p>Aim To explore the feasibility of nurses prescribing blood components.</p> <p>Method Using a convenience snowball sample, a UK-wide questionnaire survey was undertaken to identify transfusion practices and canvass the opinions of nurses and doctors.</p> <p>Results
<p>Effective peak flow measurement is useful to assess patients with respiratory conditions, particularly asthma. This article describes how nurses can assist patients to achieve accurate measurements.</p>
<p>This article, the first in a series of articles relating to clinical skills in nursing, outlines the procedure of capillary blood glucose monitoring.
<p>This series of articles has been developed with the intention of increasing nurses’ awareness of ethics and ethical decision-making and clarifying the relationship between ethical thinking and effective nursing practice.
