The law and death

There is no statutory definition of death (Grubb et al, 2010). Generally, the Triad of Bichat (Griffith and Tengnah, 2008), which defines death as ‘the failure of the body as an integrated system...

Leadership in the time of crisis

Hall (2020) states that ‘great leaders care about their employees as people first and workers second. That distinction may not be noticed during a typical workday, but it becomes critical during a...

Staff unavailability and safe staffing: are headroom allowances ‘realistic’?

The long-standing global shortage of nurses has been widely reported (International Council of Nurses (ICN), 2006; 2019). Clearly, the effective use of existing staff is imperative. The objective of...

Organisational empowerment and assertive communication behaviours: a survey of Jordanian newly qualified nurses

The study was reviewed and approved by the Scientific Research Committee at the School of Nursing at the University of Jordan, and the ethics committees of participating hospitals..

Intentional rounding

Should nurses be technology enhanced?

The impact of genitourinary syndrome of menopause on continence

‘Members of the consensus conference agreed that the term genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is a medically more accurate, all-encompassing, and publicly acceptable term than vulvovaginal...

Improving pelvic floor health: advice for nurses and their patients

‘Based on the data available, we can be confident that pelvic floor muscle training can cure or improve symptoms of stress urinary incontinence and all other types of urinary incontinence.’ .

Understanding shock in children

In this article, ‘children’ will refer to any child or young person up to 16 years of age. However, although infection is recognised as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the newborn...

Extreme pacemaker reel syndrome in an elderly patient with cognitive impairment

A wheelchair-bound 82-year-old female with documented dementia presented to the emergency department (ED) following syncopal episodes. Eight months earlier a single-chamber VVI pacemaker had been...

Manual handling: the challenges of different care environments

Health and social care work settings have higher than average reported instances of MSDs, with more than 1400 instances per 100 000 employees (HSE, 2019a). Only construction and the combined...

Understanding roles in health care through interprofessional educational experiences

IPE is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as bringing together students from two or more healthcare professions to learn about, from, and with each other (WHO, 2010). Incorporation of IPE...