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There has been little change to the death registration process for over 50 years. Registrars relied on the MCCD issued by a single attending doctor to proceed with certification. Only cases referred...
The aims of this study were to explore the experience and psychological impact of sustaining a sharps injury within a nursing student population in the UK..
Management of lymphoedema is lifelong and is focused around reducing and re-routing the swelling by applying compression and carrying out lymphatic massage, maintaining healthy skin and preventing...
The feedback portion of the workshop began the initial analysis as common themes across the groups were identified and discussed further as a unified group. This discussion was again recorded in note...
‘What is the difference between those who are reluctant and those who are accepting of their LTC in their lives? .
The IASP divides pain into three categories (Box 1). Nociceptive pain is associated with damage to non-neural tissue and involves the stimulation of nociceptors (pain receptors attached to sensory...
There are two types of respiratory failure (O'Driscoll et al, 2017, for the British Thoracic Society):.
When talking to IBD nurse specialist colleagues about their roles and how they developed, the primary objective of many such services, based on a business plan, was to reduce demand on consultant...
In the midst of public health messages to tackle the problem of overweight and obesity, however, concern is growing that many elderly people are unknowingly putting themselves at risk of malnutrition.
Within the support offered to families, I applied many tools, including the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (Warwick Medical School, 2021), Outcome Stars (Triangle Consulting Social...