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The term skin substitutes can be misleading in that these products do not fully replace the integumentum when applied, but most do replicate some properties of normal skin and are thus an important...
A person's lived experience of pressure injuries is a complex phenomenon that refers to an individual's personal and subjective experience (Prosek and Gibson, 2021). According to NHS England (2023),...
The risk of developing a DFU is influenced by both individual patient characteristics and specific foot-related factors (Table 2). A foot categorised as ‘at risk’ necessitates increased levels of...
‘People sleeping, about to bed down (sitting on/in or standing next to their bedding) or actually bedded down in the open air (such as on the streets, in tents, doorways, parks, bus shelters or...
The UK government has set an ambitious goal to make England smoke-free by 2030. This goal is to reduce the smoking rate to below 5% (Hopkinson, 2020). Scotland set a similar target for 2034 (Lewis,...
‘I made it my ambition to be accepted onto the programme and fortunately my manager supported me wholeheartedly. The tutors on the course are lovely and the combination of their backing and the work...
Upon analysis, three themes were identified that described the women's experience of the UI assessment: a lot of shame and worry related to UI and the assessment; the importance of experiencing a safe...
This study aimed to explore the experiences of people involved in teaching skin assessment to pre- and post-registrants in both clinical and higher education settings to identify the barriers and...
The findings presented are the participants' understanding of the concepts of addiction and recovery in relation to substance use. Of the 11 participants interviewed in this study, 9 were female and 2...
The nervous system is a complex network of specialised cells called neurons, which transmit electrical and chemical signals throughout the body to communicate with and control other cells. It is...
The main aim of this study was to elicit practice tutors' views on their readiness to support OU nursing students who require reasonable adjustments while on clinical placement. This research also...
In June 2022, a team of academics used a cloud-based e-learning authoring tool to develop three games, which were designed with inspiration from the concept of an ‘escape room’. By leveraging the...
The governance process implemented as part of the programme reflects improvement aspects, at the same time as recognising the importance of maintaining evidence of decision-making and agreement on the...
As the weeks went on in placement, I was becoming more comfortable on the ward. The ward team had so much combined knowledge, I wished I was a sponge to absorb it all. Every time I was worried or had...
‘… costs … have continued to grow at an eye-watering rate. Ten years ago, the NHS paid £900 million in damages; last year it was £2.17 billion – equivalent to the annual running costs of the biggest...
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