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.
Spinal cord injury: anatomy and physiology of the spinal cord
The imminent arrival of spinal injured patients at emergency departments often...
Managing whiplash injury
Few topics provoke such controversy in emergency, orthopaedic, neurological and...
Early pressure ulcer development in spinal cord injured patients
The ongoing international debate on the management of spinal cord injured patients...
Treating and preventing tetanus in A&E
Tetanus is a rare but fatal disease and immunisation against tetanus is a...
Improving assessment of pain in older people
Experience of pain is one of the main reasons patients seek emergency care (Tanabe...
Management of pregnant trauma patients
It is a common social attitude that life for pregnant women should be as near to...
Nursing diagnostics electrocardiogram interpretation in relation to thrombolysis
The Department of Health (DoH), in the national service framework for coronary...
Distress in children attending A&E
Attendance at A&E is a common childhood experience (Audit Commission 1996...
Partial rotator cuff tears
The shoulder facilitates most daily activities of living and is the second most...
Courtesy calls
Thrombolysis administration is an integral part of the modern management of acute...
Anaphylaxis
The true incidence of anaphylaxis is unknown but thought to be on the increase (...
Acute compartment syndrome
Acute compartment syndrome is a common but potentially life threatening condition...
Cranial nerve damage
Emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) are considered integral to multidisciplinary...
Supracondylar fracture of the humerus
About 3.5 million children attend UK A&E departments every year (Royal...
Scaphoid fractures
Wrist injuries are frequently encountered in emergency departments (Chakravarty et...
Knee injuries
The knee joint is the largest and most complicated joint in the body (Snell 2000)....
Acute pancreatitis
Acute pancreatitis is a common emergency with potentially devastating consequences...
Reforming emergency care: what GPS really want
The Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Teaching Trust implemented a nurse led...