Daniel Allen

999 Club
Emergency Nurse

'999 Club' aims to reduce children's fears of emergency departments

A recently-launched initiative gives children a flavour of what goes on in emergency...

Mental Health Practice

'Take the risks to better your career prospects'

Senior lecturer Nicola Evans, on how taking all opportunities can provide the best outcomes for your career, and how winning the RCN Wales Research in Nursing award broadened the horizons for child and adolescent mental health services.

Cancer Nursing Practice

New drug therapy for myeloma

A collaboration between Cancer Drugs Fund and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has produced a new drug therapy available to some patients with myeloma

Nikki_Lester
Nursing Children and Young People

Talking SENSE with young people caught up in traumatic events

The Survivors Assistance Network gives practical and emotional support to children and families who have experienced terrorism.

Mental Health Practice

When disaster strikes: the specialists in traumatic bereavement and conflict-related trauma

The Peace Foundation and consultant mental health nurse Nikki Lester are helping people with their grief

Emergency Nurse

Looking at the use of music to reduce stress in older patients

Attending an emergency department may cause anxiety and distress for some older adults, but can music reduce the stress they experience?

Emergency Nurse

Views of frontline staff on frequent attenders are being ignored, study finds

The opinions of frontline staff have often been ignored in research into frequent attenders of emergency departments, according to the authors of this study.

Emergency Nurse

South Korean analysis of ED nurses' skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Researchers examine nursing participants' performance in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Emergency Nurse

Regional study looks at use of primary care services in EDs

Regional research looks at use of primary care service in EDs in a bid to reduce patient burden in emergency departments.

Nursing Standard

Nursing Standard at 30: 'It has always been about making things better for nurses'

In 1987 the RCN took a leap of faith and invested in a new, weekly nursing magazine. Former staff writer Daniel Allen recalls the early, pioneering years of Nursing Standard, which quickly established itself as a powerful voice for nursing.

Emergency Nurse

A system for predicting admission and discharge

A predictive model for admission developed at a healthcare campus in Israel identified 94% of hospitalisations and 90% of discharges within one hour of presentation.

Childhood diabetes
Nursing Children and Young People

The nurse's role in childhood diabetes

Daniel Allen summarises the latest guidance on childhood diabetes.

Nursing Children and Young People

The nurse's role in childhood diabetes

Daniel Allen summarises the latest guidance on childhood diabetes.

end of life care
Nursing Children and Young People

Regional variations in palliative end-of-life care

A new guideline on end of life care for children and young people is due out later this year

Child bronchiolitis
Nursing Children and Young People

Clinical update: Bronchiolitis

NICE quality standard QS122

Jaundiced newborn
Nursing Children and Young People

Update on treating neonatal jaundice

--------------------------- Message from webpage Latest advice from the National Institute...

Delayed discharge
Nursing Standard

Delayed discharge

What you need to know about delayed discharge

Nursing Standard

Emergence of asepsis theory a key theme of lecture re-enactment

Dramatised Victorian lecture shows how nurse education has changed... and how it stays the same

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