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.
Acute poisoning: exposure to diy products
Home improvement is an increasingly popular pastime and there is a wide range of...
Human resource management
This article describes how an A&E department has responded to increasing...
Care plans for familiar faces
As a mental health development nurse working at Ipswich Hospital’s A&E...
Overdose of insulin and other diabetic medication
NICOLA BATES highlights the dangers associated with the management of diabetes
Injury management in the community
Thousands of people in the UK sustain injuries every day. The lay public can manage...
Biphasic defibrillation
Early defibrillation is accepted as essential to revert potential life threatening...
Paediatric pain assessment
The assessment of pain in children is a subject that has been widely discussed, and...
Substances of low toxicity by ingestion
Each year, the London Centre of the National Poisons Information Service receives...
Vicarious traumatisation
Emergency departments present multiple composite realities providing emergency...
Taking part in the MRC crash trial
Emergency departments are notoriously busy clinical areas with increasing pressure...
Diagnosing radiological abnormalities
SAPAL TACHAKRA addresses the training and expertise of emergency nurse...
Paracetamol overdose
Paracetamol is an analgesic and antipyretic agent that became available in the UK...
What to do when an adolescent self harms
Adolescence is a time of great change, physically, psychologically and socially (...
Using an evidence-based approach to thrombolysis
Forging links between theory and practice in a bid to affirm evidenced based...
Aspirin overdose
After more than a century, aspirin remains one of the most popular drugs in the...
Recognising adrenal insufficiency
The cortices of the adrenal glands produce Cortisol and insufficient circulating...
Children abused through prostitution
Children abused through prostitution is a poorly understood and under researched...
Developing a nursing observation chart
For some time the A&E department at Ipswich had been using either a general...