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Adverse drug reactions: reducing the burden of treatment

02 May 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article offers definitions and descriptions of adverse drug reactions and the associated burden of treatment. Nurse-led patient monitoring may be one way to...

Usefulness of written information in treatment choice for men with low-risk prostate cancer

12 May 2016

Cancer Nursing Practice

Art & Science

Active surveillance (AS) is a treatment option offered to men with low-risk prostate cancer, as an alternative to other radical curative interventions. AS involves...

Team spirit

20 September 2005

Nursing Standard

Features

Teamwork is the name of the game in reducing healthcare-associated infections, as one hospital has demonstrated in its orthopaedic unit.

Sharp thinking

18 October 2005

Nursing Standard

Feature

Nurses are the healthcare professionals most at risk from neeldestick and sharps injuries, according to the latest figures from the RCN’s EPINet project. ■ During...

Ready to fight TB

21 June 2011

Nursing Standard

Features

With tuberculosis on the increase in Scotland, nurses are at the heart of an action plan to reverse the trend.

Clostridium difficile infection: nursing considerations

23 July 2014

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Clostridium difficile is a bacterium which commonly causes diarrhoea in inpatients. C. difficile affects hospitalised patients worldwide and can pose a significant...

Reducing surgical site infection following caesarean section

17 August 2011

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim To set up a surgical site infection (SSI) benchmark rate for caesarean sections and improve infection rates by monitoring and implementing compliance with the...

Preventing healthcare-associated infections: the role of surveillance

04 February 2015

Nursing Standard

CPD

Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections is central to healthcare epidemiology and infection control programmes and a critical factor in the prevention of...

03 April 2024 / Vol 39 issue 4

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