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Once bitten: identifying malaria presentations

01 October 2003

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Malaria, historically one of the earliest recorded parasitic diseases to affect people, continues to be a major threat to health worldwide. Though eradicated in the...

Setting up an ENP service: options, planning and pitfalls

01 November 1998

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

A&E nursing has been one of the most fervent supporters of the development of nurse practitioners, with some 98 A&E departments in the UK (36 per cent of the total...

Why are they waiting?

01 May 1994

Emergency Nurse

Forum

The scene will be familiar to all: a waiting room full of patients with ‘minor’ injuries, the medical staff attending to the acutely ill, and the waiting times and...

’Please do the needful’: Developing an A&E minor injuries fast-track referral system for GPs and primary care

01 March 1998

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Patient referral by GPs and practice nurses is a daily and ever increasing occurrence in A&F. While ‘fast-track’ referral systems for many acute presentations arc...

Tetanus immunisation: its implications in A&E

01 September 1997

Emergency Nurse

Clinical immunisation

The effective implementation of an immunisation programme against tetanus has largely eradicated this potentially fatal disease in the UK (Department of Health...

Health promotion in relation to domestic violence

01 April 1998

Emergency Nurse

Clinical domestic violence

Domestic violence is both a social and healthcare issue with a 24-35 per cent prevalence found in anonymously self-reported questionnaires distributed within A&E...