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Emergency care for young people who have used cocaine

07 December 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Government figures suggest that there has been an increase in the number of young people using cocaine. Emergency and minor injury unit nurses are therefore...

A framework for independent prescribing of intravenous fluids

08 November 2012

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Many nurses are prevented from independently prescribing intravenous fluids, despite the benefits of the practice to patients, as well as to healthcare professionals...

Advanced nurse practitioner-led abdominal therapeutic paracentesis

10 March 2017

Emergency Nurse

Evidence & practice

Liver disease is a common cause of death in England and Wales, and ascites is associated with a 50% mortality rate. Most patients who present with ascites have...

The experience of care for people affected by mesothelioma

11 March 2015

Cancer Nursing Practice

Art & Science

This article reports on an analysis of patient and carer free-text comments received in response to the first National Mesothelioma Experience Survey conducted in...

Clinical competency in children’s nursing: a legal commentary

24 December 2011

Nursing Children and Young People

General

Competence can be defined as having the requisite knowledge, skills, judgement, and experience to undertake a role or task. This article – part ten and the last in...

Implementation of a structured programme of preceptorship for newly qualified midwives in a maternity unit

30 September 2016

Nursing Management

Evidence & practice

This article discusses the application of a structured approach to the development and implementation of preceptorship programmes with an evidence-based content to...

How much is enough? Using Delphi to explore the clinical-contact-time and return-to-practice needs of military nurses

Nursing Management

evidence & practice

Aim Aim Military nurses are required to deploy worldwide at any time to support British forces. They must maintain military and clinical skills, and fulfil other...

Assessing competence in nursing

09 July 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

New pre- and post-registration nursing competencies are being developed, yet there is much debate about how to define and assess competence. This article outlines...

The importance of education

04 August 1999

Nursing Standard

Special launch

Nurse practitioners will soon be celebrating ten years of practice in the UK. During that time, they have changed the face of primary health care and been involved...

Preparing for the field: developing competence as an ethnographic field worker

01 January 2005

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

If ethnography can be considered as a form of work, then the rules and competencies of this work need to be learnt along with clear markers of progress to enable the...