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The nurse specialist maintained a database of all the PEGs and primary PEG-Js inserted in paediatric patients (<18 years of age) between 4 January 2015 and 17 August 2015. All procedures were...
In 2020, 724 516 nurses, midwives and nursing associates were registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), of whom 10.7% identified as male and 89.3% as female (NMC, 2020). The prevalence...
An ACCP-led transfer service has replaced an ad hoc process of transfer, with one of a consistent team combined with a process of training, governance and continual review. Data collection has allowed...
A 61-year-old Azerbaijani woman was admitted to Imam Khomeini hospital in Urmia, in north west Iran. She had a kidney transplant on 5 October 2018. The patient had a history of end-stage renal disease...
Although research in the area remains limited, available studies suggest a number of core challenges facing palliative nurses. These include issues such as the practical challenges of palliative...
Simon et al (2010) undertook a study with a sample of 2119 registered nurses in a variety of departments in 16 German hospitals, and found the general considerations that swayed the decision to...
Simulation in nursing programmes is as old as the development of nurse education itself. When Florence Nightingale launched the first modern educational programme for nursing students in 1860,...
‘There is no single definition of “just culture” and most discussion of it is limited to the issue of being fair to healthcare staff.’ .
The previous nine parts of this series on writing academic essays have covered the common reasons why someone will fail an essay, and how to avoid those mistakes. They highlighted the importance of...
‘The tireless and outstanding commitment of all our nurses over the past year … is the best advert for the nursing profession.’ .
A midline venous catheter is a peripheral device defined by the position of its tip, which is just distal to the axillary fold (Gorski et al, 2021). The position of its tip promotes increased...
As the vascular access specialist at a rural hospital in southern Indiana, the author collaborated with oncologists and patients to determine the appropriate long-term VAD for patients receiving a new...
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