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Acquiring percussion and auscultation skills through experiential learning

01 October 2003

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Radical reforms are being implemented in A&E to manage ever growing pressures and ever longer waiting times. To improve the standard and speed of care in this acute...

Nursing diagnostics electrocardiogram interpretation in relation to thrombolysis

01 September 2004

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

The Department of Health (DoH), in the national service framework for coronary heart disease (DoH 2000) and later in Reforming Emergency Care (DoH 2001a), declared...

Ethical implications of achieving pain management through advocacy

01 June 2000

Emergency Nurse

Management

In 1997, an audit of my A&E department highlighted that 80 per cent of patients attended with some pain assessed as mild, moderate or severe. It also revealed that...

Practical benchmarking

01 February 2005

Emergency Nurse

Forum

recently had the honour to meet prime minister Tony Blair, health secretary John Reid and emergency care tsar Sir George Alberti as part of an event intended to...

Power to prescribe

01 May 2005

Emergency Nurse

Feature

The introduction of nurse prescribing has been called a ‘momentous role development’ (Larsen 2004), and one that undoubtedly will enhance the autonomy of emergency...

The therapy of touch

01 March 2000

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

The objective of task orientated touch in trauma resuscitation is to bring about a recognised physical therapeutic result. However, while Driscoll’s (1993) approach...

Prescribing partnership

01 December 2005

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Four years ago, the National Prescribing Centre, in conjunction with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, developed a framework to support nurse prescribing (National...

Lateral ankle sprains

01 May 2002

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Ankle sprains remain one of emergency departments’ most frequently presenting complaints. Lorimer et al (2002) state that one individual per 10,000 each day will...

Using an evidence-based approach to thrombolysis

01 September 2002

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Forging links between theory and practice in a bid to affirm evidenced based practice (EBP) is a central component of clinical governance (Moores 1999). The nursing...

Benchmarking as a quality assessment tool

01 February 2002

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Successive publications and consultation documents from the government have placed quality related issues firmly on the agenda. The New NHS: Modern Dependable...

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