Developing an OPAT service that meets the ever-changing needs of patients

The hospital already used BARD vascular access devices (VADs) and I was fortunate enough to be able to access the free support and training package the company offered, so I set about developing a...

Weaning on the web: using social media to empower parents

At the time that changes to the delivery of the weaning sessions were being considered, Doncaster Health Visitors was already running a successful Facebook page with around 3000 followers. This was...

Early intervention toilet training for children with Down syndrome

The early intervention toileting skill development programme was promoted as widely as possible through study days and parent workshops, and it was at a parent workshop in December 2018 that we...

Using creative arts therapy workshops to explore stoma patients' feelings

‘How can traumatised people learn to integrate ordinary sensory experiences so that they can feel secure and complete in their bodies?’ .

Providing a specialist nursing service to cardiac patients

By 2013, we had developed 11 rapid access atrial fibrillation clinics per month throughout the Tayside region, streamlining the patient journey and providing timely review and treatment. Our initial...

Improving the care of patients with acute kidney injury

MINIMISE Moisture™: a local quality improvement initiative raising awareness of moisture-associated skin damage

MINIMISE Moisture aimed to raise awareness of the key considerations around the prevention and management of MASD. It aimed to ensure that staff have up-to-date evidence-based resources and tools to...

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...

BJN Awards 2019: Nurse of the Year—runner up

‘This has been a job of tremendous ups and downs, highs and lows. We go through good times with the patients and their families, but also extremely difficult periods that can be heartrending for all...

BJN Awards 2019: chronic oedema nurse of the year runner up

It is thought that around one in 200 patients aged over 65 have lower limb oedema, a prevalence that increases with age (Charles, 2013). As Northern Ireland has an increasing number of people aged 85...