Benefits of a collaborative approach to service evaluation in urgent care
Collaboration and service evaluation are important to enable high-quality care
22 Nov 2022
Craig Brown
Redeployed on placement: how short-staffing due to COVID-19 changes everything
If supernumerary status it vital to learn and practise, it must be upheld, even in a pandemic
05 Mar 2021
Identifying foot fractures and dislocations
As the roles of emergency nurse practitioners expand, more patients with minor injuries are being managed independently by nursing staff. Injuries to the foot and ankle are common among such patients, and X-rays are frequently performed to aid their diagnoses. Some of these fractures and dislocations are subtle and difficult to identify, so practitioners must adopt a structured approach to reading X-rays. This article describes some of these injuries and offers advice, including X-ray illustrations, on how to identify them.
01 Oct 2014