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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.

Pretibial lacerations: management and treatment in the emergency department

Emergency nurses deal regularly with traumatic wounds (Holt 2005) and, under...

Practice makes perfect - Intraoral ranulas

The following case history concerns a 19-year-old man who presented to the...

Scissors: an infection risk?

Infection control is vital in all areas of nursing, but it is especially so in...

Early pregnancy loss

Early pregnancy loss can be a cause of immense distress for the women who...

The glasgow coma scale clinical application in emergency departments

About one million people with head injuries attend emergency departments (EDs)...

Practice makes perfect - Water hemlock poisoning

Although collecting wild plants to eat is usually undertaken for pleasure in the UK...

Evaluating suicidal intent in emergency care settings

Emergency care staff are responsible for assessing suicidal intent in patients who...

Subungual haematomas

Patients with subungual haematoma usually present in emergency departments, either...

Practice makes perfect - Scalp ringworm

Patients present to emergency departments (EDs) for many different reasons, one of...

The accountability of emergency nurse practitioners

During the past decade, the nursing profession has helped to plan and shape the...

Management of pulled elbows

This article examines the management of children who present with subluxation of...

Using handheld pocket computers in a wireless telemedicine system

Teleconsultation may soon become the fastest evolving branch of telemedicine,...

Treating leg ulcers

The Department of Health (2006) identifies that almost 18 million people attend A...

Developing a new intravenous therapy service: part 2

This article focuses on the development of a new intravenous (IV) therapy service...

Paraphimosis

The following emergency nurse practitioner (ENP) case report describes the...

The sternum

Emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) are beginning to overcome the barriers that...

Intraocular injury

Ophthalmic conditions account for more than 5 per cent of all minor injury unit and...

Identifying pleuritic chest pain

Chest pain is one of the most common clinical presentations to emergency...

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