Let the voices of specialist nurses be heard

Caring for the older ostomate

Loss of appetite can be caused by a cocktail of medication, mouth ulcers caused by ill-fitting false teeth, a change in circumstances such as bereavement or a move to a nursing home or depression. If...

Helping patients live well with a stoma for inflammatory bowel disease: directions for future research

Early assessment of need and access to appropriate interventions following stoma surgery may facilitate a smoother transition with less disruption across many areas of patients' lives, thereby...

Creating consensus-based practice guidelines with 2000 nurses

A modified Delphi process was used for this project, which combined the scientific rigour of the traditional Delphi and RAND Nominal Group Technique (NGT-R), with virtual and face-to-face...

Helping students to self-care and enhance their health-promotion skills

We read Anne Mills' article exploring the concept of health responsibility in nursing with great interest (Mills, 2019). As final year medical students at Imperial College London, we feel strongly...

Marking World AIDS Day

Tick-borne encephalitis

Acute kidney injury: a risk scoring system for general surgical patients

It has been suggested that worldwide up to 20% of people admitted to hospital either have or will develop AKI (Susantitaphong et al, 2013). Although the incidence in the UK may be lower, it can have...

How to manage the care of the dehydrated child

The NHS defines dehydration as the body losing more fluid than it is taking in (NHS website, 2019). Dehydration in children is usually caused by diarrhoea and vomiting or systemic infection, but can...

Clinical trials involving children and young people

It is widely recognised that due to developmental and physiological differences (Joseph et al, 2015; Naka et al, 2017) children and young people's participation in clinical trials is integral to the...

Evaluating sexual function education for patients after a spinal cord injury

‘A state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity. Sexual health requires a positive and...

Constraints and ethical tensions in the area of young-onset dementia

This study drew from the experiences of health professionals to explore models of care for YOD. For those interviewed, the experience of providing care for people with YOD was characterised by...