The lady with the lamp or the lady with the pie chart?

In praise of nursing associates

Organ donation: nursing roles and responsibilities

One of the key challenges facing organ donation is ensuring both that families of potential donors fully understand the information given to them about organ donation and that end-of-life care is...

Strategies to ensure that all patients have a personalised nursing care plan

Before the introduction of the nursing process, which is the systematic problem-solving approach to planning nursing care for the individual patient, the delivery of nursing care was via task...

The relevance of law to patient safety education and training

‘HEE will work with NHS Improvement and NHS England to produce the best informed and safety-focused workforce in the world. Developing a consistent national patient safety syllabus to apply across a...

Preparing for the liberty protection safeguards

The revised provisions will provide for an administrative system that will be able to authorise the deprivation of liberty of a cared-for person in any care setting, not just hospitals and care homes...

A vision for nursing in Pakistan: is the change we need possible?

Highly qualified, competent nurses and midwives fulfilling the health needs of the Pakistani population, reducing the burden of disease, producing nurse practitioners with legislative authority,...

Digital can make a difference

The role of the healthcare environment in the acquisition of infection

The rough sleeper

Feeling financially squeezed

‘Mind the gap’: the importance of managing malnutrition in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Malnutrition is associated with a wide range of serious and potentially life-threatening conditions and complications, particularly in patients with conditions such as COPD (Box 1)..

Communicating with patients using a new vitamin B12 deficiency leaflet

To devise the processes to test nurse compliance in providing educational information to patients and the solutions to improve this, it was considered important to understand why educational...

Choosing coaching frameworks for promoting diet modifications

Pound and Campbell (2015) proposed a process of synthesis preparation; extracting, clarifying and summarizing the parts of the aforementioned theories/models that are most relevant are described...

The use of non-invasive ventilation in an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a case study

COPD is a term given to a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema (Plant et al, 2000). The World Health Organization (WHO) (2017) estimated that there was a prevalence...