Benign acute childhood myositis: importance of early recognition

A previously healthy 10-year-old boy presented to the paediatric assessment unit (PAU) with a 4-day history of bilateral leg pain, which was progressively worsening. There was no change reported in...

Compression in older people

The natural ageing process results in dry, fragile, and thinner skin. This is compounded by the skin changes associated with lower leg problems, eg hyperkeratosis, papillomatosis, ulceration, and...

Leaders in health for everyone

I am so proud to represent the nursing profession every day and I want to take the opportunity on International Nurses Day to thank all nurses working across England. The day is about recognising the...

Recovery facilities in a tertiary level hospital in Lusaka, Zambia

The theatre suite has eight theatres, which provide a wide range of procedures in minor and major surgical specialties. These include orthopaedic, general, ear, nose and throat (ENT), plastic surgery...

Global citizens

The theme for this year's International Nurses Day is ‘Nurses: a voice to lead—health for all’. This is a great opportunity for nurses around the world to pause and reflect, and to celebrate the...

Nursing means putting the patient first, wherever we are in the world

Time perspective and associated factors in Brazilians living with HIV

The sociodemographic, clinical and behavioural characteristics of the participants are presented in Table 1. A total of 281 people living with HIV, ranging in age from 18 to 72 years (mean = 41.1...

Strategies to overcome the public's fear of vaccinations

It is important to stress that public fear of immunisation is as old as the history of vaccination itself. Since Edward Jenner's groundbreaking work in 1796 using lymph from cowpox blisters to...

Suicide prevention and patient safety

The World Health Organization (WHO) (2019) has stated that close to 800 000 people die due to suicide every year, which translates to one person dying every 40 seconds. For each adult who died by...

Advance decisions to refuse treatment

The Law Commission (1995) defined an ADRT as:.

Flexible working could improve retention

Timewise (2018), a community interest company, worked with a number of trusts to scope how flexible working could aid retention. The resulting three-part action plan is a good starting point for...

A review of pessary for prolapse practitioner training

The literature search was performed using the following databases: AHMED, MEDLINE including in-process and other non-indexed citations, BNI, CINAHL, and EMBASE. Search terms used were: ‘pessary’,...

Caring for patients with urinary incontinence-associated dermatitis

IAD has been described by Gray et al (2011) as ‘… irritant dermatitis that develops from chronic exposure to urine … attributable to multiple factors, including chemical irritants within the moisture...

Living with ureteric stents: a phenomenological study

This study aimed to elicit understanding of the lived experience of having a ureteric stent and as a consequence improve health professionals' knowledge of this phenomenon. The key objective of the...

Feel the fear and use it to express yourself