This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
‘Sharing experiences with nurses residing in other countries is such a rewarding experience. It enriches nursing practice’ .
Specialist stoma care nurses (SSCNs) are no exception regarding having this positive impact, being experienced and highly educated professionals in an autonomous nursing role.
A number of studies have focused on the negative psychological impact stoma forming surgery can have on a patient. These studies consistently highlight four key areas of concern:.
Stoma education was traditionally provided in the postoperative period and a large amount of professional effort has been put into patient education and training over the years. ASCN UK produced Stoma...
Colostomy irrigation is a procedure that involves introducing water into the large intestine through the colostomy opening to help empty the bowel. It requires the instillation of 500-1000 ml of...
In our polarised world, divisions seem to deepen as each day passes. There is an urgent need for all of us to revisit and reaffirm the notion of our shared humanity. The concept of the human race as a...
At the start of my career, there were ongoing discussions about the need for learning disability nurses, and these conversations have persisted over the years. Despite these debates, in the evolving...
Clean intermittent self-catheterisation (CISC) has long been considered the gold standard for bladder drainage (Nazarko, 2024). Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2021) guidance on catheter care...
The prevalence of diabetes has increased globally, with significant implications for healthcare organisations. According to Diabetes UK, more than 5 million people in the UK are living with diabetes,...
Trauma does not occur in isolation, but within the context of community and the social determinants of health (SDOH), which includes factors such as economic stability, education, and social and...
According to the WHO (2023), 41 million people die each year from non-communicable diseases, which it highlights is equivalent to 74% of all deaths globally. Non-communicable diseases, such as...
The first key area to understand is the difference between learning and ‘performing’. At university, you want to ensure that you are learning information. However, you will often find that you are...
One of the significant projects under BHSCA is the establishment of the Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hubs, in partnership with Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) and initially funded by NHS...
An earlier audit (Kidney Transplantation: Pitfalls and Ways to Improve) (Fernandez, and Banerjee, 2016) was presented at UK Kidney Week 2016. This showed that waiting for two referrals – a clinic...
No doubt the final Dash report on the CQC will also find that the NHS health regulatory, governance framework, patient safety system is too complex, overlapping, fragmented and ripe for reform. This...
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