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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
What can clinical nurses or students do if they are told that their hairstyle is ‘unacceptable’, that it ‘doesn't comply with policy’ and that they must alter it if they want to continue to work as a...
Uganda is located within the central east of Africa and had a population of over 39 million in 2017 (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2021). Despite significant improvements...
The NHS is constantly required to adapt and change and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated changes. In lower-limb conditions there has been an emphasis on patients self-caring by managing lower-limb...
Under normal circumstances, an individual adopts a sitting or squatting position allowing for straightening of the anorectal angle and the relaxation of the external anal sphincter and puborectalis...
There are three enteral feeding specialist nurses at LTHT, two at Band 6 and one at Band 7. There were changes in the team over the period the data were collected; however, there was no correlation...
NRL is extensively used in the manufacture of medical gloves, but is also used in catheters, elasticised bandages and wound dressings (Health and Safety Executive (HSE), 2020). NRL is a milky fluid...
Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) is a collection of symptoms that may result from a low anterior resection for bowel cancer. Keane et al (2020), in their international consensus definition of...
A patient's temperature should always be recorded when conducting vital signs monitoring checks (Bickley, 2016). The assessment of temperature as an initial clinical examination allows practitioners...
The ERAS concept is based on close interdisciplinary collaboration between surgeons, anaesthesiologists, nurses and allied health professionals. Each profession has its specific tasks and an essential...