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Diverticular disease is a condition where diverticula cause symptoms such as altered bowel habit and lower abdominal pain, but without inflammation or infection (Strate and Morris, 2019). See Box 1....
An understanding of the medical terminology associated with nausea and vomiting is important for reliable and effective assessment and management of patients' symptoms (Table 2) (Waugh and Grant,...
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The researchers were interested in the psychological impact of caring and how this linked to resilience and retention in the workforce. This concept of moral resilience and moral distress and the...
Apheresis is the overall term used for the range of procedures that can be undertaken using an apheresis machine. An apheresis machine is used to remove, exchange, collect or treat a specific...
A microbiota is a collection of micro-organisms found in a particular environment such as on the skin or in the gut, whereas microbiome is a term to describe the collection of micro-organisms, the...
Individuals with intellectual disabilities are a unique heterogeneous population who require specific health improvement strategies to meet their individual needs (Cooper et al, 2004). Although there...
The pandemic has required nurses to implement digital technologies and, at the same time, demonstrated its many benefits to modern health care, as future nurses would be expected to adapt to a...
‘Professional and/or geographic isolation. Weak leadership. Interpersonal, and sometimes inter-professional, conflict. Failures in communication. A reluctance to listen to patients, families and...
Hospital passports have been used for a number of years for certain patient groups and are designed to give hospital staff helpful information about patients who have frequent admissions to hospital....