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Emeritus Professor from the University of Southampton
During times of need, such as conflicts, nurses have often undertaken procedures that are normally within the jurisdiction of a trained medical practitioner. Zarnitz and Malone (2006) discussed how...
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...
On 16 March 2020, the CQC declared that it was going to suspend routine hospital inspections and commence a new and different phase of its regulatory activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Euthanasia is the act of deliberately ending a person's life to relieve suffering; assisted suicide is the act of deliberately assisting or encouraging another person to take their own life..
After years of austerity, the people of Romania rebelled against the communist government. Ceauşescu and his wife were put on trial and executed on Christmas day 1989, paving the way for the country's...
Once humans began to live in close proximity to their fellow man the lack of good personal hygiene and sanitation ultimately led to the emergence of communicable diseases. Perhaps the best known of...
One year ago, NHS Employers launched its ‘How are you feeling today NHS?’ initiative (NHS Employers, 2019). This easy-to-use resource was designed and developed with the help of NHS staff to promote...
There have been many news headlines over recent years highlighting the workforce issues facing the NHS. Perhaps the greatest challenge is rectifying the acute shortage of trained nurses, which The...
In the UK, government advice on immunisation is given via the ‘Green Book’ (https://tinyurl.com/peqclpm), regularly updated following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation....
Before the introduction of the nursing process, which is the systematic problem-solving approach to planning nursing care for the individual patient, the delivery of nursing care was via task...
Before the Nightingale era, there was no national nursing curriculum or state examinations, and hospital nursing was undertaken by an ad hoc workforce including members of the ecclesiastical...
Hospital passports have been used for a number of years for certain patient groups and are designed to give hospital staff helpful information about patients who have frequent admissions to hospital....
In a systematic review of the literature, Landeiro et al (2019) showed that delayed discharge occurs in most countries and that the associated costs are significant, not least because of their impact...
One of my earliest memories as a student nurse in the late 1960s was helping to serve lunch to patients on an orthopaedic ward. The dinner trolley always arrived from the hospital kitchen at 12 noon....
The House of Commons briefing paper reviews a range of English policies aimed at improving dementia diagnosis, care, support and research. There are an estimated 850 000 people living with dementia in...
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