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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
COPD is a term given to a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema (Plant et al, 2000). The World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) estimated that there was a prevalence...
‘Many patients will have to deal with problematic skin at some point, it should not be considered the acceptable norm as it can have profound impact on an individual's optimal physical, psychological...
‘Compassion originates as an empathic response to suffering, as a rational process which pursues patients' wellbeing, through specific, ethical actions directed at finding a solution to their...
‘… which dispute the idea that the NHSLA resolves claims “as quickly and cost-effectively as practicable,” and argue instead that the NHSLA often fails to settle cases proactively and is therefore...
Registered nurses have a professional duty to maintain a patient's confidence and to maintain data security by collecting, treating and storing all data appropriately (Nursing and Midwifery Council...
Central venous catheter (CVC) insertion is a common procedure among hospitalized patients with more than 5 million CVCs placed annually in the United States.1 As peripherally inserted central...
Clean intermittent self-catheterisation (CISC) has long been considered the gold standard for bladder drainage (Nazarko, 2024). Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2021) guidance on catheter care...
The causes of pressure injuries are multifactorial, and both external and internal factors can contribute to their development (Zaidi and Sharma, 2024)..
The continuous rise in healthcare complexities of today's patient population as well as the financial climate in the NHS, not to mention the uncertainties of Brexit, make it ever more challenging to...
