Learning the lessons from patient safety incidents

‘Staff are struggling to cope with large volumes of safety guidance, they have little time and space to implement guidance effectively, and the systems and processes around them are not always...

Academic essays part 8: managing the literature

Whereas the previous articles have explored the more theoretical side of this process, this article gives you practical tips on how to extract, arrange and structure the information from your...

Signposts on the road to recovery

‘The normal ways in which nurses de-stress, with wellbeing activities such as going to the gym, the pub or socialising together, are not available to us’ .

How can we protect cancer nurses from exposure to hazardous drugs?

Alison Simons and Samantha Toland (Senior Lecturers at Birmingham City University) have a special interest in SACT safety and the protection of nurses administering chemotherapy..

Changing practice for neuraxial applications using NRFit™ small-bore connectors to improve patient safety

The luer connector is an extremely versatile connector for joining a wide range of medical liquid and gas connecting tubes. It has been in use for over 100 years since it was designed by Karl...

Establishing a nurse-led thyroid cancer follow-up clinic

Current national guidelines state that thyroid cancer has a long natural history where late recurrences occur, but can be treated successfully with a view to cure or long-term survival (BTA, 2014)....

A year of virtual nursing

Postoperative mobilisation as an indicator for the quality of surgical nursing care

To move is a fundamental human need and to assist patients in mobilising is one of the basic principles of nursing care that Virginia Henderson conceptualised for the nurse's role (Current Nursing,...

Treatment-at-work service puts cancer patients at the centre of care

Women and COVID-19

Personalised solutions through social prescribing

Myringotomy and insertion of grommets as day surgery: a case study

Jack was admitted through the surgical day ward on the morning of his bilateral grommet procedure. A student nurse (from now on referred to as ‘the nurse’ and supported by a registered nurse)...