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‘Blue light’ patients: resuscitate or not?

01 November 1995

Emergency Nurse

Forum

Andrew Cook makes a plea for ending the controversial practice of assessing critically ill patients in ambulances before deciding to resuscitate them.

Effective clinical leadership in A&E

01 November 1996

Emergency Nurse

Forum

The concept of leadership has been used in organisational development for over 50 years. The analysis of what constitutes a good leader has, however, changed...

Governing principles

01 December 2003

Nursing Management

Applied management

BUPA HOSPITALS LIMITED took an early stand at a corporate level by championing the value of clinical governance for independent hospitals. The challenge this...

Who’s to blame?

06 March 1991

Nursing Standard

Viewpoint soapbox

For a multitude of reasons, there are some patients who are blamed for the diseases which they contract. Very often this attribution of blame is unjustified, and...

Being out in the open

04 April 1990

Nursing Standard

Soapbox sexuality

Students of nursing are rigorously taught how to make an effective nursing assessment of the newly- admitted patient. We learn how to ask questions relating to each...

Assessing deliberate self harm: A team approach

01 April 1998

Emergency Nurse

Clinical self harm

The scene is familiar to us all. An ambulance arrives with a young man who has taken an overdose of paracetamol, he is clearly upset, withdrawn and is reluctant to...

Open AccessHome denosumab self-administration: a service development project

08 March 2022

Cancer Nursing Practice

Cancer treatments

In October 2012 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence approved the use of subcutaneous denosumab for the management of bone metastases from solid...