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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
I am so proud to represent the nursing profession every day and I want to take the opportunity on International Nurses Day to thank all nurses working across England. The day is about recognising the...
The concept of occupational readiness has been widely studied, with the definition generally understood to be a ‘level of preparedness for future work’ (Li et al, 2022: 2969) and the learner's ability...
It is thought that around one in 200 patients aged over 65 have lower limb oedema, a prevalence that increases with age (Charles, 2013). As Northern Ireland has an increasing number of people aged 85...
‘…nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing a patient who requires treatment for mental disorder from being admitted to any hospital … without any application, order or direction...
Before the introduction of language tests in 2005, overseas nurses had to undergo an adaptation programme. However, there was a scarcity of NHS-based adaptation places and around 37 000 overseas...
NHS England (2024) has provided a key framework to support staff when ‘temporary escalation spaces’ (TES) are used. The guidance begins with the statement that care delivery in TES such as corridors...
PIVCs are the most common invasive device in health care; 70% of patients require at least one during their hospital stay.12 Repeated insertion attempts are common, and over one-third of PIVCs fail...
This study was carried out in a tertiary care hospital in southern India. A total of 230 nurses participated in the study. A validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The questionnaire...
Knowledge of pain processes has changed considerably over the past 500 years, when there was the belief that pain is a sensation linked to body fluid imbalance, evil spirits or a punishment from God...