The purpose of this activity was for key stakeholders to review and validate the current Advanced Diploma in Critical Care Nursing and to prepare a framework for a bachelor degree-level critical care...
TLOC accounts for 3% of all attendance in emergency departments in the UK (Petkar et al, 2006) and has a lifetime prevalence of 50% (NICE, 2014). Data shows vast international differences in admission...
Happy International Nurses Day 2020! As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, bringing with it illness, death and disruption to our daily lives, one thing is standing out—the bravery,...
After training at Lacor Nursing School, Gulu [in Uganda], I moved to South Sudan and worked in a hospital before moving to a rural health centre. I learnt Arabic so I could communicate better with...
In 1999, Henrik Kehlet initiated the establishment of the ‘Surgical Project’, a national unit for monitoring surgical outcome in collaboration with the National Board of Health. The purpose was to...
The aim of this review was to:.
This qualitative ethnographic study was based on Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope (2006), originally published in 1954. This theoretical framework informed the meaning of hope and guided the...
It is important to stress that many long-term conditions of childhood have emerged perhaps as a tribute to the success of modern medicine. This is because prior to the 20th century many...
‘In a significant U-turn, PHE advised frontline staff to wear a flimsy plastic apron with coveralls when gowns ran out, in a move that doctors and nurses fear may lead to more of them contracting...
Nurses are generally expected to meet the standard of care set by the profession, employer and the law (Griffith, 2020). In law, the professional standard of care is determined by reference to Bolam v...
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