Use of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sufficient supply of PPE is essential to meet increased demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government has sought to put measures in place to improve supply chains and provisions of PPE by, for...

What barriers prevent health professionals screening women for domestic abuse? A literature review

‘The term “domestic violence and abuse” is used to mean any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling behaviour, coercive behaviour or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those...

Coping among adolescents with long-term health conditions: a mixed-methods study

Adolescents spend most of their time at home and school. It is important to understand how adolescents cope with their illnesses in these two settings. This study investigated the coping strategies...

Interventions to improve inpatients' sleep quality in intensive care units and acute wards: a literature review

A systematic review method was used to examine previously published literature on the topic of sleep promotion and sleep quality. This method of study was chosen because it is a rigorous and valid...

Through the looking glass: the rabbit hole of reflective practice

In the ambiguous clinical context where act or omission can have potentially devastating consequences, there is a heavy price to pay for being unskilled and unaware of it (Kim et al, 2015). Inspired...

The use of virtual health care as an option for lymphoedema services

The NHS is constantly required to adapt and change and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated changes. In lower-limb conditions there has been an emphasis on patients self-caring by managing lower-limb...

Protecting student nurses is crucial to saving the nursing workforce

Student experiences of nursing on the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic

‘The request for student nurses to work on the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic brings with it many challenges … especially for those only part way through their degree’ .

Celebrating Florence Nightingale and her contribution to nursing

Nursing is as old as humanity itself, with the word nurse originating from the Latin nutricia, meaning ‘to nourish’. Although all societies throughout history attended to the sick and injured, it was...

Suing the NHS for clinical negligence: reports analysis

There has been a call from Peter Walsh, Chief Executive of Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA), and others for urgent action to be taken to prevent avoidable harm and deaths among non-COVID-19...

Holding powers in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983

‘…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...

BAME staff and microaggressions

‘There's the feeling that sometimes you're not understood, or you're treated maybe a bit differently … Or sometimes there could be comments made about your culture, your food, languages you might...

COVID-19 and the gender imperative

COVID-19: protecting the medically vulnerable

‘There is no certainty when you live with a medical condition like CF but having clear and timely guidance from PHE and my own medical team has provided a much-needed level of assurance during this...

Cortrak feeding tube placement: interpretation agreement of the ‘GI flexure’ system versus X-ray

There was a high level of agreement between Cortrak and radiological interpretation. This was not high enough to prove that Cortrak could reduce end-of-procedure detection of lung misplacement to...