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The use and mis-use of paediatric casualty

27 March 1990

Nursing Standard

Clinical accident and emergency

Nearly 30 years ago, Fry’s study of a London accident and emergency (A&E) department identified that 40 per cent of attending patients could have been appropriately...

Publishing literature reviews: why, who, where, when and how?

01 September 1993

Nurse Researcher

Reviewing the literature

The style of published literature reviews varies according to their content and format. In terms of content, they may range from practical reviews of scales and...

Preventive activity

13 June 1990

Nursing Standard

Primary health care health promotion

All nurses said they were doing treatment room tasks regularly (daily/weekly) at the outset of their employment (eg suture removal, injections, urinalysis, blood...

Preventive practice - part I

09 May 1990

Nursing Standard

Analysis

Practice nurses, working with general practitioners, are well-placed to help provide health promotion and preventive health care (1, 2).

Elderly people’s use of services: a survey

11 August 1993

Nursing Standard

Clinical elderly Care

This article describes some of the findings of a longitudinal survey of three samples of older people living at home in East London and Mid Essex. It describes the...

Elderly housebound: changes over time

22 September 1993

Nursing Standard

Clinical elderly care

This article, which completes the research discussed in recent articles in Nursing Standard (1, 2), describes the changes in the ability of very elderly frail people...

Functional ability of very elderly people

08 September 1993

Nursing Standard

Clinical elderly care

This article, which expands on the research discussed four weeks ago in Nursing Standard, describes the circumstances of very elderly people with different levels of...