Placement of finger oximeter on the ear: comparison with oxygen saturation values taken from the finger

This was a prospective, single-centre, cohort study performed at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, a large teaching hospital serving a population of approximately 1...

Evaluation of a personal professional mentor scheme for newly qualified nurses

Qualitative description underpinned this empirical evaluation because it was intended to be an exploration of the basic nature and shape of the scheme (Sandelowski, 2000). It is well suited to...

How the prohibition of torture under human rights law applies to nursing

‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’ .

Examining the new NHS National Patient Safety Syllabus

The National Patient Safety Syllabus is to be welcomed as it combines and integrates several important patient safety-related disciplines into a well-focused and proactive syllabus. The syllabus...

Have the NMC educational standards become overly adult-centric?

Undergraduate nursing programmes in the UK are currently designed to prepare students for registration with the NMC in one or more of the four fields of nursing practice. The NMC specifies that all...

It's time to change the way we work

‘There is an opportunity for the NHS to learn from how other large organisations have developed systematic approaches to the options available to staff’ .

Chronic pain management

‘Hello’ is only the beginning

Can teledermatology meet the needs of the remote and rural population?

In 2018, the Cochrane database of systematic reviews analysed 22 studies with this sole objective: ‘to determine the diagnostic accuracy of teledermatology for the detection of any skin cancer in...

Nursing considerations for patients undergoing robotic-arm assisted joint replacements

The preoperative phase of RAA can be divided into three stages—education, assessment and planning—which is in line with the principles of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) (Zhu et al, 2017; Kaye...