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GCA is associated with several potentially insidious symptoms; however, none of them are specific enough (pathognomonic) to the disease to be definitively diagnostic. Typically, patients will present...
The UK national haemovigilance surveillance programme, SHOT, repeatedly identifies that patient are harmed, and some die, as a result of being given the incorrect type of blood..
As detailed in the table, multiple themes surrounding the cognitive and meta-cognitive processes that underpin clinical reasoning have been identified. Central to these processes is the practice of...
Identify possible nursing interventions that can be taken to prevent or manage delirium in adult patients in ICU..
The Karasek model, which has been used worldwide for about three decades, is seen as the gold standard for psychosocial jobs assessment (Kristensen, 1995). It is a three-dimensional instrument that...
Uganda is located within the central east of Africa and had a population of over 39 million in 2017 (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2021). Despite significant improvements...
The rapid spread of COVID-19, having no cure readily available, and watching people fighting for their lives and all too many losing that fight, was quite terrifying. Nurses were not only concerned...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all healthcare workers, both physically and psychologically. Burnout, anxiety, fear of transmitting infection, feelings of incompatibility with the professional role...
Nightingale's definition of nursing was at odds with the Victorian physicians' view of a nurse as a submissive handmaiden, a minion. Instead, Nightingale proposed a more active role for nurses, who...
‘Some employers were referring nurses without any investigation at all, while half of initial enquiries to the NMC were rejected or required further work. She told The Independent this emphasis on...
‘Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which...
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