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Open AccessOC30 – Fracture reduction with nitrous oxide at the children’s emergency department shortens the length of stay and reduces the use of full anaesthesia in the operating department

09 May 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Supplement

Theme: Accreditation and quality improvement. Aim: Dislocated fractures are common in the children’s emergency department (ER). All forms of fracture reduction are...

Reviewing nursing diagnoses

01 September 2007

Nursing Management

Leadership

The NHS financial modelling system, Payment by Results (PbR) (Department of Health 2007), encourages UK healthcare providers to review their levels of efficiency...

A tool for diabetes

11 August 2009

Nursing Standard

Clinical digest

Improving the care of inpatients who have diabetes but are admitted for other reasons is the aim of Think Glucose.

Analyses approach: exploring the effect of emergency department interventions on outcomes of hospitalization

01 October 2007

Nurse Researcher

issues in research

This article describes an exploratory analysis approach to studying processes in an emergency department (ED) for time-based interventions implemented on outcomes of...

Innovation in oncology

10 August 2010

Nursing Standard

Feature

Nurses are undertaking specialist procedures to improve the patient experience.

Remote control

09 November 2010

Nursing Standard

Features

On a remote Scottish island, technology is helping patients monitor their own pulmonary disease and alert nurses to any deterioration.

Improving patient flow: role of the orthopaedic discharge sister

07 March 2016

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Timely and well-planned discharge improves the patient’s experience, contributes to patient safety and reduces the length of hospital stays. The role of orthopaedic...

Improving outcomes for patients with proximal femoral fractures

25 September 2014

Nursing Management

Art & Science

A peri-operative bay was created to treat all patients with proximal femoral fractures admitted to one trauma ward at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham. All...