Weaning on the web: using social media to empower parents

At the time that changes to the delivery of the weaning sessions were being considered, Doncaster Health Visitors was already running a successful Facebook page with around 3000 followers. This was...

Voiding dysfunction and the experience of intermittent self-catheterisation

Voiding dysfunction is relatively uncommon in young women (Mevcha and Drake, 2010) and can often be an incidental finding when investigating another medical condition. The cause of voiding dysfunction...

Taking care of continence patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

Indisputably, all staff who have worked within and around heath and social care provision (including all support services, such as administrative, portering, domestic and catering staff) have done an...

Early intervention toilet training for children with Down syndrome

The early intervention toileting skill development programme was promoted as widely as possible through study days and parent workshops, and it was at a parent workshop in December 2018 that we...

The Mental State Examination

Concepts closely related to what is now known as the MSE in current day practice have been used in psychiatry for decades (Kareem and Ashby, 2000). The use of the MSE when considering an individual's...

Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies-associated vasculitis: a guide and case study

The term vasculitis refers to a relatively rare and poorly understood set of conditions, causing inflammation of the blood vessels, and AAV is a sub-group within this collection (Ball et al, 2014)....

Pilot study of a nurse-led adult lacrimal clinic at a tertiary ophthalmic centre

It is important to diagnose and treat patients with watery eyes, as this symptom has been shown to decrease patients' quality of life through impairment of their ability to perform activities of daily...

Transgender patients' experiences of health care

This literature review aimed to consider and consolidate the current literature exploring the health care experiences of transgender individuals..

Reports on the mental health of children during the current pandemic

On the first day of the country's second COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, as I walked through the New Forest, I was able to indulge in ‘forest bathing’, an important aspect of preventive mental health in...

To learn the lessons, think beyond the specialty

Patient safety reports have a key role in helping staff maintain and develop good organisational cultures. They are a rich source of real-time information showing how nurses and doctors can better...

From staff nurse to nurse consultant Academic essays part 6: planning your essay

A necessity, not a nicety

‘The mistaken belief persists that patient safety is about individual effort.’ .