Global and national perspectives on patient safety

‘These include steps to protect health workers from violence; to improve their mental health; to protect them from physical and biological hazards; to advance national programmes for health worker...

Academic essays part 4: exploring the question

Although this appears reassuring and gives the student a degree of confidence that they understand the question, there is a danger that they miss one or two important parts of the assignment. This may...

The digital revolution: who loses out?

Maintenance of indwelling urinary catheters with a novel polyhexanide-based solution: user experience

These findings indicate that use of PS in everyday clinical practice provides a novel means of catheter maintenance, which has the potential to address CACS such as CAUTI and improve patients' QoL as...

2020: a year of C words

‘From caring came courage’ .

Sacral neuromodulation system for treating refractory overactive bladder

The lower urinary tract system is made up of the bladder and urethra. Its two main functions are storage and voiding. If the bladder or urethra are disturbed, lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)...

One trust's rationale for choosing a lubrication gel for use in catheterisation

NNUH is situated in the Norfolk town of Norwich. The Trust comprises the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, the Cromer Hospital and the Jenny Lind Children's Hospital. The Norfolk and Norwich...

My work in continence nursing: raising issues and disseminating knowledge

‘Distension of a visceral organ, such as the bladder, situated in the paralysed part of the body, had set up a response of autonomic mechanisms, which had induced profound effects on the...

The role of body image in treatment decision-making and post-treatment regret following prostatectomy

Prostatectomy involves removing the whole prostate capsule using a surgical procedure (laparoscopy (keyhole), robotic-assisted or open surgery). Irrespective of the surgical approach used,...

COVID-19 and hand hygiene: the vital importance of hand drying

Residual moisture on the hands and the amount of time hands are wet or exposed to wetness, are factors of importance in terms of hand hygiene and infection prevention. Water exposure can cause...

An introduction to the palliative care of children and young people

‘An active and total approach to care, from the point of diagnosis or recognition throughout the child's life, death and beyond. It embraces physical, emotional, social and spiritual elements and...

Advance care planning and syringe drivers in palliative and end-of-life care

The term palliative care is sometimes referred to as end-of-life care, but they are not, strictly speaking, the same. Marie Curie (2018) has sensitively explained the difference between the two terms....