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Itchy business

05 February 2002

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

Over the past six years I have come across a number of patients with scabies. I have tried to find out as much as I can on the subject through talking to colleagues,...

Exemplary care

10 October 1987

Nursing Standard

Letters

Amazing as it may seem, I have within the last three weeks (i) worked in the National Health Service as Ward Sister; (ii) been admitted for a major operation as a...

Choosing bed safety

20 September 2005

Nursing Standard

Reflections

The use of bed rails to prevent patients falling from their beds and sustaining injuries came under the spotlight recently as a direct result of an adverse event....

Discharge planning

16 October 2002

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background Two audits were conducted by a small team of nurses to measure the effectiveness of discharge management and planning in a four-ward orthopaedic and...

Streamlining pre-operative assessment in orthopaedics

23 September 1998

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The author was appointed to create a ‘pre-admission clerking system’ in an orthopaedic department. The management objective was to reduce the numbers of patients...

Implementing the productive ward management programme

06 April 2010

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes how the introduction of the productive ward programme has empowered one ward team to work collaboratively to introduce sustainable change....

How to keep score of acuity and dependency

26 December 2009

Nursing Management

Feature

This article describes how the introduction of an acuity and dependency tool at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has provided nurses with a...

03 April 2024 / Vol 39 issue 4

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