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Patient rehabilitation following lower limb amputation

13 August 2008

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Patient rehabilitation following lower limb amputation is essential to provide optimum patient outcomes and to improve the amputee’s quality of life. The age of the...

Improving parental first-aid practices

12 June 2012

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Every day, children present to emergency departments (EDs) with injuries sustained at home, school and elsewhere. In the authors’ experience, little, if any,...

How nurses can cope with stress and avoid burnout

05 November 2014

Emergency Nurse

Art & Science

This article draws on a systematic literature review to identify stressors in emergency and trauma nursing settings, and their potential effects on staff. After a...

Comforting measures described by staff working in paediatric units

Nursing Children and Young People

evidence & practice

Aim Aim Children with cancer identify staff members, who work with them in paediatric units, as their most important comforters. This study aimed to shed light on...

How one trust made its way out of special measures

25 November 2015

Nursing Management

Feature

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) was placed into special measures by the Care Quality Commission in 2013 after problems were identified with its...

Patient-reported outcome measures and how they are used

26 February 2011

Nursing Older People

Feature

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly being used in the NHS to inform clinical treatments and even the funding of individual healthcare...

Patient-reported outcome measures: implications for nursing

05 January 2011

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Programme, which was implemented by the NHS in 2009, gives prominence to patients’ views about their health....

Patient weighing: standardisation and measurement

21 March 2012

Nursing Standard

A&S Science

Identification of patients with specific nutritional needs requires the use of appropriate weighing systems. The introduction of the Non-Automated Weighing...

Developing a general ward nursing dashboard

10 December 2014

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The seventh and final article in the series on Leading Better Care explores some of the challenges in clinical practice relating to the use of data and making...

Selecting a measure for assessing secondary trauma in nurses

13 November 2015

Nurse Researcher

Assessment tools

Aim To summarise the usefulness of available psychometric tools in assessing secondary trauma in nursing staff and examine their limitations, as well as their...

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