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1735 results for "advanced practice"

Rethinking clinical placements

On a journey to excellence

The NIVAS Board responds:

Implementing a legislation change in organ and tissue donation in England

Nearly 25 million people have signed the Organ Donation Register (Jones et al, 2019) to declare that they have decided to be an organ and/or tissue donor in the event of their death. However, there...

Tissue Viability

Implementing a new regimen to manage a difficult-to-heal lymphovenous leg ulcer

The main functions of the lymphatic system in the context of healing leg ulcers and the health of the integumentary system overall, which consists mainly of the skin, are the immune response and the...

Preventing central line sepsis

Vascular Access/IV

Rapid haemostasis to achieve dressing longevity: evaluation trial results using StatSeal catheter exit site protection

Adopting practices that focus on reducing exit site bleeding of PICCs and other vascular access devices is a strategy to reduce catheter-related complications (Duwadi, 2019)..

Education

Moving interprofessional education to a virtual platform

Clinical Skills

Assessing the patient's needs and planning effective care

Planning care is essential in the delivery of appropriate nursing care. Following assessment of a patient's needs, the next stage is to ‘plan care’ to address the actual and potential problems that...

Caring for patients with urinary incontinence-associated dermatitis

IAD has been described by Gray et al (2011) as ‘… irritant dermatitis that develops from chronic exposure to urine … attributable to multiple factors, including chemical irritants within the moisture...