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Board’s eye view

01 May 2007

Emergency Nurse

Forum

The current focus of trusts on balancing their finances has its pros and cons. On the one hand, making staff aware of the financial costs of their practices can...

Careers focus

01 October 2007

Emergency Nurse

Forum

All nurses must be able to demonstrate that they are familiar with the research and guidelines that underpin their practice.

The role of the physiotherapist practitioner in emergency departments: a critical appraisal

01 May 2005

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

The emergency directorate at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, formerly known as Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust, has recently employed two...

Scaphoid fracture: diagnosis and management

09 July 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Nurses working in first-contact settings commonly assess and manage patients with suspected or actual injury to the scaphoid bone. In this article, lack of consensus...

Nursing in Criminal Justice Services

30 March 2015

Learning Disability Practice

Book Review

HAVING ASSUMED that this book would focus on the role of prison nurses, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it has a potentially wider appeal.

Whingeing at work

10 February 2012

Emergency Nurse

Opinion

A former Australian colleague told me a joke recently: ‘How can you tell when a plane load of poms has landed at Sydney airport? When they turn the engines off, the...

Tension pneumothorax

23 July 2008

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Pneumothorax, and in particular tension pneumothorax, is associated with a high degree of morbidity and mortality so prompt identification and treatment is critical.

Calling for change

11 October 2012

Emergency Nurse

Opinion

Last August, Joe Strummer would have passed his 60th birthday. For those of you not as old or lucky as me, Joe was lead singer of The Clash, a UK punk band whose...

Board’s eye view

01 October 2013

Emergency Nurse

Opinion

I CAN buy Swedish cider and Kalamata olives 24 hours a day. I can take an online master’s degree, or book a flight or train journey, at any time of the day or night.

Work-based Learning in Clinical Settings

05 March 2014

Emergency Nurse

Book Review

HISTORICALLY, ACADEMICS have regarded work-based learning (WBL), or ‘invisible learning’ as the authors describe it, as second rate. Only recently have institutions...