This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This invitational survey assessed opinion from a range of nurses across the UK to gauge their perspective of the process of hospital discharge and its associated challenges and the transition into...
Both lay and theoretical perspectives define health. Lay perspectives of health are definitions formed by non-professional individuals, who use conceptual understandings and perceptions of what health...
The bacteria are found in multiple locations within and on the body. They have been found inhabiting the nose, mouth, throat, oropharynx, oesophagus, stomach and intestine. Other places they can...
Several studies have shown that following the creation of a stoma patients may experience stigmatisation; having a stoma will also affect people's perception of their body image and sexuality, and...
Despite the SSC's worldwide acceptance and proven results, compliance challenges have emerged. The term ‘meaningful compliance’ refers to the frequency and completeness of checklist use on different...
The aim of the study was to establish the transferability of the findings of the IPA study. The main objectives were to establish whether the following experiences were generalisable:.
This prospective observational study was conducted after obtaining local ethics committee approval (IRB: HCUH 012/2021) and parents' informed consent. We collected data from infants and young children...
NICE (2021) recommends that all patients who actively smoke should receive smoking cessation advice at each clinical assessment. Comprehensive smoking cessation programmes have been shown to be more...
Happy International Nurses Day to all my colleagues across Scotland, the UK and, indeed, across the world. We are one community, regardless of which part of the world or in which specialty we work....
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...