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Trauma training: a literature review

01 November 2007

Emergency Nurse

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Severe injury is the leading cause of death in people under the age of 35, and a common cause of death in those of all ages, in England and Wales (Office for...

Care of the terminally ill

01 April 1998

Learning Disability Practice

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There are various reasons why residential care homes for people with a learning disability may feel unable to care for a terminally ill resident.

Born in the USA: learning the lessons on improving people’s quality of life

01 June 2002

Learning Disability Practice

General

Quality of life is a difficult concept to describe. While we may know what it means to us as individuals, it is difficult clearly to identify how service provision...

Why A&E nurses feel inadequate in managing patients who deliberately self harm

01 February 1999

Emergency Nurse

General

Deliberate self harm is one of the top five causes of acute medical admission for both women and men (Hawton and Fagg 1992). Greenwood (1997) has defined deliberate...

A hybrid emergency care model

01 February 2001

Emergency Nurse

General

Following the closure of an A&E department in a district general hospital, a new hybrid model of caring for patients who present with emergencies was developed. The...

How medical negligence is established

01 September 1998

Emergency Nurse

General

Negligence can be thought of as a failure to do something that ‘a prudent and reasonable man would do or the undertaking an act that a reasonable man would not do’...

Overview of nurse-led clinics and their scope of practice

04 November 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

General

A survey was carried out to identify the type of cancer nurse-led clinics established in one region of Scotland. It also aimed to establish the scope of the clinics,...

Guidance on managing patients receiving erlotinib therapy

04 November 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

General

Five UK lung cancer nurse specialists met to arrive at a consensus on optimal follow-up and management strategies for patients with non-small cell lung cancer taking...

Increasing awareness of survivors’ needs

13 December 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

General

More people in the UK are surviving cancer, but the long-term effects of treatment and the support that survivors need to have a good quality of life are...

Evaluating the efficacy of a telephone follow-up clinic

09 February 2012

Cancer Nursing Practice

General

This article presents the findings of an audit of patient satisfaction with a prostate cancer telephone follow-up service. Respondents thought the service was a...