ACPs play a pivotal role in CANH decision-making processes by using their advanced clinical skills and expertise to assess patients' nutritional needs, evaluate the appropriateness of CANH...
Seven LT units offer assessment and subsequent LT services in the UK (see Box 1). These units are often associated or combined with other organ transplant services due to significant crossover in the...
In 2018, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018a; 2018b) published new standards governing the supervision and assessment of aspiring nurse and midwife prescribers, which have now been embedded...
The focus of GEM nursing is to identify potential geriatric syndromes in patients aged 65 years and over. These may encompass falls, incontinence, nutrition, constipation, pain, visual and hearing...
If the patient is relatively stable, the clinician should take a comprehensive history: Table 1 summarises the key points that need to be considered during this process of taking a patient's history....
Following objection by a medical association in Malta, the term ‘specialist nurse’ was replaced by ‘practice nurse’ to include all specialist and practice development nurses..
‘In primary care you learn the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis, creating a management plan and prescribing, all while upholding the principle of shared decision-making with the patient...
A direct relationship was found between the degree of obesity and the level of clinical knee osteoarthritis (Raud et al, 2020). Globally, 16% of adults have been found to be obese, equating to...
For those embarking on a higher degree such as a master's, taught doctorate, or a doctor of philosophy, the relationship between research, knowledge production and knowledge utilisation becomes clear...