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Life or death decisions

09 July 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

So far, most cases of ‘swine flu’ have been mild, but healthcare professionals have been warned against complacency. If the flu pandemic becomes serious, a...

Pandemic flu: lessons from the Toronto SARS outbreak

03 September 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

A review of the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in Ontario in 2003 found that there had been several faults in healthcare services and that these had...

Swine flu: are you prepared?

01 September 2009

Mental Health Practice

Feature

The UK is well prepared for the flu pandemic but it is expected to put considerable strain on the NHS, including mental health services. This article brings together...

The challenges of caring for patients with influenza

29 December 2011

Nursing Older People

CPD

Influenza is an acute, highly infectious viral infection. Seasonal outbreaks occur annually across the world, presenting a major public health challenge. Older...

Evaluating the effects on families of swine flu contingency policies

26 November 2010

Paediatric Nursing

General

Policies developed to cope with the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in the winter of 2009 may have conflicted with the philosophy in child health nursing of...

Influenza: disease, epidemiology and the importance of vaccination uptake by healthcare workers

26 August 2014

Primary Health Care

CPD

Influenza viruses present challenges to healthcare systems and vaccination co-ordinators around the world. Global surveillance of this potentially devastating...

Influenza pandemic planning and mitigation update

14 September 2008

Primary Health Care

CPD

An influenza pandemic can have many negative effects on a society, and nurses are at the frontline of treatment. This article explains how to prepare for a pandemic...

Using effective hand hygiene practice to prevent and control infection

27 April 2020

Nursing Standard

Infection prevention and control

Decontamination using hand hygiene remains one of the most important and effective methods for reducing healthcare-associated infections and cross-infection between...

What the COVID-19 pandemic tells us about the need to develop resilience in the nursing workforce

13 May 2020

Nursing Management

COVID-19

Most research on resilience in healthcare systems such as the NHS is based on organisational crises, such as nurse shortages, an ageing workforce and financial...

Managing childhood vaccination clinics during COVID-19: risks and solutions

30 September 2020

Primary Health Care

Immunisation

The COVID-19 pandemic and the systems and processes put in place to minimise the spread of infection have left many services, including vaccination clinics,...