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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
Bennett et al (2016) highlighted research across the UK showing that NHS staff from BME backgrounds often experience inequality, discrimination and prejudice in the workplace. Indeed, they are...
A BP measurement in its simplest form is a determinant of individual cardiac output (the volume of blood pumped out of the heart and into the aorta per minute) and the systematic vascular resistance...
‘Anything a person does in response to internal or external events. Actions may be overt (motor or verbal) and directly measurable, or covert (activities not viewable but involving voluntary...
People with diabetes constantly walk a tightrope between strict glycaemic control to delay and/or slow the progression of micro- and macrovascular complications.
RRSs were developed to address failures in recognition and escalation of deteriorating patients in hospital. While these systems have made some impact on the recognition of the deteriorating patient...
The consultation paper has some thoughtful provisions. Three principles underpin the strategy: a just culture; openness and transparency; and continuous improvement..
Shortages of trained nurses can be traced back to the introduction of nurse registration. When the first elections to the General Nursing Council (GNC) (the forerunner to today's Nursing and Midwifery...
I developed the ‘pick ‘n’ mix teaching’ sessions in response to a request for work-based teaching from one of our medical wards. This particular clinical area had identified various clinical incidents...
Planning the discharge should start on admission and involve the multidisciplinary team, the family and carer and, importantly, the person themselves (NHSES, 2011). The key aims of discharge planning...
‘School nurses across the UK … were struggling with heavy workloads and the majority of their time was eaten away by safeguarding and administration’ .
There are compulsory areas of CPD that have been identified by employers as essential; these will be funded by employing organisations and staff will normally be paid to attend study days or undertake...
‘The conditions in which leaders operate are stressful and difficult, with great responsibility and the highest stakes. Over time, this has led to a negative working culture in which both bullying...
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