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Managing equipment

23 October 1996

Nursing Standard

Special focus: cardiology

To promote cost effectiveness, it is most important for nurses to ensure proper maintenance and safety of equipment. Equipment can so easily be of poor quality or...

Mitral valvuloplasty

24 September 1988

Nursing Standard

Clinical feature

The first mitral valvuloplasty was carried out in the Far East just two years ago and introduced within this country shortly afterwards. Normally, patients with...

Undermining concern

28 May 1988

Nursing Standard

Letter

I am writing to share my concern with other readers about what seems to be a subtle undermining of the nursing role at Senior Nurse level in some hospitals.

Intra-aortic balloon pumps

22 October 1988

Nursing Standard

Balloon pumps

The use of balloon pumps was first established in the late 1960s as a means of providing mechanical support when a patient's circulation is failing. A balloon...

Missing nurses

11 February 1989

Nursing Standard

Letter

In common with everybody [Illegible word] who is registered with the CC, my copy of 'Register' dropped through the letterbox recently. More to the point, I actually...

Parking grief

22 October 1988

Nursing Standard

Letter

I have just spent 30 frustrating minutes attempting to remove a 'Don't park here - or else!' sticker obliterating my car window. My sin? Leaving the car in a parking...

Nursing fellows

04 February 1989

Nursing Standard

Commentary

On a humid August evening at 8pm, I was sitting in my armchair in my little ground floor bedsit, pop music blaring on the stereo, when the doorbell chimed. I...

Nurses and the obesity plan

24 August 2016

Nursing Standard

Letter

I have joined a slimming club. Despite the encouragement, the education and the peer support, it is a slow struggle to lose weight.

Recording techniques

02 May 1990

Nursing Standard

ECG file

Electrocardiogram (ECG) paper is a type of graph paper used to measure the size and rate of ECG complexes. All ECG machines run the paper at a standard speed and use...