Evidence and Practice
The efficacy of educational interventions on nurses’ attitudes to patients who self-harm
Factors that influence trauma team activation in emergency department staff
Acute behavioural disturbance: recognition, assessment and management
Clinical
The efficacy of educational interventions on nurses’ attitudes to patients who self-harm
Do educational interventions improve attitudes of emergency nurses to patients who self-harm?
Factors that influence trauma team activation in emergency department staff
Evaluation of the factors influencing the decision to activate the trauma team in ED staff
Acute behavioural disturbance: recognition, assessment and management
ABD typically affects overweight men in their mid-thirties who misuse illicit stimulants
Factors that affect nurses’ triage decisions in the emergency department
A literature review of recent studies on factors influencing ED nurses’ triage decisions
Assessing and managing people exposed to conducted energy device (Taser) discharge
Role of nurses in post-Taser assessment and management in custodial and emergency settings
Managing a patient presenting to the ED with upper gastrointestinal bleeding
Familiarise yourself with a care bundle that can be used for rapid assessment and management
CPD articles
Ensuring effective intercultural communication in the emergency department
This can be achieved by nurses developing cultural knowledge and interpersonal skills
Assessing people with sickle cell disease presenting with vaso-occlusive crisis
Understand how to assess and manage patients with vaso-occlusive crisis in the ED
Breaking bad news to patients in the emergency department
Preparing autonomous practitioners to break news of serious and new diagnoses
Health promotion in emergency care: rationale, strategies and activities
Concept of health promotion and its relevance to nurses working in the emergency department
Managing violence and aggression in the emergency department
Featuring a successful small-scale trial of body-worn cameras at an East London ED
How to get care right for people with learning disabilities in the emergency department
To get care and treatment right it is essential to ‘ask and engage’ people
How to
How to improve patient care by learning from mistakes
Mistakes made in healthcare settings and the challenges to staff that arise from them can harm service users, consume time and money, and often receive bad publicity. However, by learning from these mistakes and meeting these challenges, practitioners can improve the quality of the care they provide. This article explores what is meant by mistakes and challenges in the context of health care. It suggests that front line managers are best placed to prevent and learn from mistakes, and thereby improve care for patients.