Clinical

Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.

Assessment of adult patients with neutropenic sepsis

Risk factors for and signs and symptoms of patients who present to the emergency department

Non-urgent presentations to the paediatric emergency department: a literature review

Why parents of children present to PED rather than to community healthcare services

Potentially avoidable tetanus booster in the emergency department: a service evaluation

Why many of the prophylactic tetanus treatments administered in EDs may be unnecessary
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Making more nurses, one minute at a time: an efficiency and quality improvement project

Enhance your understanding of triage processes and of the primary aim of emergency triage

Independent prescribing for a child with a first diagnosis of asthma: a case study

Refresh your knowledge of the signs and symptoms of asthma, as well as how it is treated

Benefits of a collaborative approach to service evaluation in urgent care

Collaboration and service evaluation are important to enable high-quality care

Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children who present with stridor

Stridor indicates partial upper airway obstruction and requires prompt medical assessment

Accidental hypothermia: pathophysiology, investigations and management

Increase your awareness of the range of rewarming techniques used in accidental hypothermia

Links between organisational justice, positive organisational behaviour and productivity

How organisational justice can be linked to improve productivity in emergency nurses

Comparing the hair apposition technique with traditional closure in scalp lacerations

A literature review of the clinical outcomes for patients with scalp lacerations using HAT

Diagnostic and treatment dilemmas in well children with petechial rash in the ED

Tailoring the investigation, treatment and discharge of well children with petechial rash

Pain assessment tools for use with children in acute pain in the emergency department

Triage nurses are required to use an appropriate, validated tool to assess acute pain

Engaging nurses in patient recruitment to research trials in the emergency department

The challenges of undertaking a feasibility trial in a city centre emergency department

Hypomagnesaemia: diagnosis and management in the emergency department

Enhance your knowledge of the clinical management of patients with a deficiency in magnesium

Researching nurses’ adherence to patient safety guidelines in emergency departments

Increase your awareness of the Joint Commission International’s six patient safety goals

Trauma pain management: use of methoxyflurane as a patient-administered analgesic

Learn about the use of methoxyflurane for people with traumatic injuries in the ED

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

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