Nursing in a pandemic

The development of critical care nursing education in Zambia

The purpose of this activity was for key stakeholders to review and validate the current Advanced Diploma in Critical Care Nursing and to prepare a framework for a bachelor degree-level critical care...

Orthostatic hypotension: clinical review and case study

TLOC accounts for 3% of all attendance in emergency departments in the UK (Petkar et al, 2006) and has a lifetime prevalence of 50% (NICE, 2014). Data shows vast international differences in admission...

Nurses step up to the challenge of working during the pandemic

Happy International Nurses Day 2020! As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, bringing with it illness, death and disruption to our daily lives, one thing is standing out—the bravery,...

Innovation, education and variety: the career of a Ugandan nurse

After training at Lacor Nursing School, Gulu [in Uganda], I moved to South Sudan and worked in a hospital before moving to a rural health centre. I learnt Arabic so I could communicate better with...

A simple method to secure data-driven improvement of perioperative care

In 1999, Henrik Kehlet initiated the establishment of the ‘Surgical Project’, a national unit for monitoring surgical outcome in collaboration with the National Board of Health. The purpose was to...

Improving oral care for hospitalised patients: choosing appropriate products

The aim of this review was to:.

The meaning of hope for individuals with spinal cord injury in Brazil

This qualitative ethnographic study was based on Ernst Bloch's The Principle of Hope (2006), originally published in 1954. This theoretical framework informed the meaning of hope and guided the...

Safeguarding children with long-term conditions from COVID-19

It is important to stress that many long-term conditions of childhood have emerged perhaps as a tribute to the success of modern medicine. This is because prior to the 20th century many...

Litigation and patient–carer, safety issues in the COVID-19 crisis

‘In a significant U-turn, PHE advised frontline staff to wear a flimsy plastic apron with coveralls when gowns ran out, in a move that doctors and nurses fear may lead to more of them contracting...

Duty, indemnity and immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nurses are generally expected to meet the standard of care set by the profession, employer and the law (Griffith, 2020). In law, the professional standard of care is determined by reference to Bolam v...

Ensuring safe practice during the pandemic

Short-term urinary catheters and their risks: an integrated systematic review

UCs are inserted for short-term or long-term purposes (Bardsley, 2015). They are used mainly as a short-term measure in the clinical area to relieve retention of urine (Meddings et al, 2014). A...

Introduction to sacral neuromodulation therapy for urinary bladder dysfunction using an InterStim system

The results of a survey carried out in 2005 in Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK suggested that the sum total costs of overactive bladder with urge urinary incontinence for patients...

With hope in our hearts

‘A principle of major incident management is to preserve the workers, without which there is no rescue.’ .