Implementing a legislation change in organ and tissue donation in England

Nearly 25 million people have signed the Organ Donation Register (Jones et al, 2019) to declare that they have decided to be an organ and/or tissue donor in the event of their death. However, there...

Restrictive practice: should all nurses be competent in safe holding and restraint?

‘Recognise and respond to challenging behaviour, providing safe holding and restraint.’ .

Will the return of financial support for students improve nurse recruitment?

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...

Shifting the mindset in the NHS complaints system

History has not served the NHS complaints system well. There have been many reports about NHS complaints going back to 1994 and the Wilson report, Being Heard, saying the same or similar things about...

The elements of negligence liability in nursing

Negligence is a civil wrong or tort and is best defined as actionable harm (Bolam v Friern HMC [1957]). Negligence has developed in English law under the common law by judges setting rules through...

Turning your assignment into an article for British Journal of Nursing

BJN is the peer-reviewed journal that brings together nursing practice, education and leadership into one comprehensive resource. In addition to academic material on nursing and hospitals, the...

Funding is only the start of fixing CPD

A J curve of interprofessional change: co-locating non-health partners in an oncology unit

The service, Improving the Cancer Journey (ICJ), was launched in Glasgow in 2014. ICJ is managed by Glasgow City Council, and the local NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde board is a key partner alongside a...

Nursing measures to support the needs of haematological cancer survivors post-treatment: a literature review

The search used keywords, precisely focused to the question. These were ‘Nurs* or Support* or Car*’ and ‘Cancer or Neoplasms or Haematology or Oncology or Malignancy’ and ‘Post Treatment or Dischar*’....

Catheter lock solutions to prevent CVAD-related infection

The tips of CVADs terminate in the central venous system (lower third of the superior vena cava or right atrium). They are used for a range of therapies including vesicants, high-volume fluids, blood...

Living with and beyond cancer: an evolving landscape

Pharmacotherapeutics of capecitabine and trastuzumab in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer

Breast cancer begins as a local disease but it can metastasise to the lymph glands and then to distant organs, with common metastatic sites being the lungs, liver and bones (Weigelt et al, 2005)....