Unprecedented times require unprecedented strategies

BJN Awards 2019: infection prevention nurse of the year—runner-up

Assessing for faltering growth in infants and children

Suboptimal growth is multifaceted; it may be the only indicator of a pathological disorder (Lee et al, 2018). However, studies across Europe (Joosten and Meyer, 2010; Romano et al, 2015), report that...

An introduction to nursing children and young people with epilepsy

A seizure is a sudden burst of unnecessary electrical activity in the brain (International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), 2017), which disrupts the way the brain usually functions (D'Ambrosio and...

Basic life support for the child and infant

‘All registered nurses must demonstrate the knowledge, skills and confidence to provide first aid procedures and basic life support.’ .

Reflection on creating a coaching approach to student nurse clinical leadership development

Whitmore (2009) suggested that coaching is an intervention that facilitates another person's learning, development and performance. The GM Synergy coaching training promotes leadership learning that...

Exploring student nurses' and their link lecturers' experiences of reasonable adjustments in clinical placement

The main research aim was to explore student nurses' and their link lecturers' experiences of reasonable adjustments in clinical placement. This not only involved descriptions of events and...

Reusable learning objects for nurse education: development, evaluation, challenges and recommendations

This study aimed to determine factors influencing RLO development and to help generate recommendations and ways of working which help streamline and optimise the production process..

Breast is still the best for babies

Out of necessity, human mothers have been known to breastfeed other animals such as piglets (Simoons and Baldwin, 1982), and before the invention of rubber-teated glass bottles it was not uncommon for...

An end-of-year report card for the Care Quality Commission

In 2018/2019 the CQC carried out more than 17 000 inspections across all sectors. These inspections included first inspections, re-inspections and focused inspections. There were 3903 inspections of...

Unlicensed medicines

The EU recognises that some patients' clinical need for medicines cannot be met by the current range of licensed medicines, or that it is simply not commercially viable for a pharmaceutical company to...