The state of NHS care in England

The CQC (2019) presents a useful and real-time picture of health and social care in England. The report looks at trends and shares examples of outstanding, good and poor care practices. Like all CQC...

BJN Awards 2019: Nurse of the Year—runner up

‘This has been a job of tremendous ups and downs, highs and lows. We go through good times with the patients and their families, but also extremely difficult periods that can be heartrending for all...

Taking the measure of safety culture

‘Everyone can play a part in making patient safety a top priority. But there is a wider challenge for us all to effect the cultural change that we need, to have the humility to accept that we all...

Updated leg ulcer pathway: improving healing times and reducing costs

Prevalence of lower limb ulceration is reported at 1.5% of the UK's adult population (Guest et al, 2015), increasing to 3% for those over 80 years old (Gohel and Poskitt, 2010). It is estimated that...

BJN Awards 2019: chronic oedema nurse of the year runner up

It is thought that around one in 200 patients aged over 65 have lower limb oedema, a prevalence that increases with age (Charles, 2013). As Northern Ireland has an increasing number of people aged 85...

What nurses can achieve

TIMERS: expanding wound care beyond the focus of the wound

The document outlines a basic 10-step management pathway required for each wound. The approach also includes how to treat palliative wounds in a maintenance fashion:.

Outcomes of a new wrap compression system for patients with lower limb ulceration and oedema

The financial burden to the NHS of treating leg ulcers (in terms of healing rates, duration of ulcers and recurrence rates) is estimated to be £1.8 billion per year and accounts for 13% of all...

A clinimetric analysis of the Pressure Ulcer Risk Primary or Secondary Evaluation Tool: PURPOSE-T

The validity of a tool refers to how effectively it measures the phenomena it was intended to assess (Charalambous et al, 2018). In the case of the PURPOSE-T, validity depends on its accuracy in...

The similarities and differences between advanced nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists

Parity: where is it?

A plan for nursing

A service evaluation of specialist nurse telephone follow-up of bowel cancer patients after surgery

This service evaluation is designed to assess patient satisfaction and the cost saving realised for commissioners by use of the telephone follow-up service. There is an emerging evidence base that...

BJN Awards 2019: gastrointestinal/IBD nurse of the year—runner-up

The challenges facing the NHS nationally in terms of funding and the logistics of running a range of diverse services are not in question..

Mental health: working with people who hear voices

Traditionally, based on a biomedical model of disease, such experiences have been understood as symptoms of psychiatric illness requiring treatment (Payne et al, 2017)..