Pain assessment at nurse triage: a literature review
Research suggests that most patients who attend emergency departments (EDs)...
01 Jun 2006
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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.
Delivering a new intravenous therapy service
Following recent reforms in emergency care, there has been a rapid expansion of...
01 Jun 2006
The ‘parental kiss’
Toddlers and other children frequently attend emergency care settings with nasal...
01 May 2006
Caring for people with learning disabilities in emergency care
Emergency care nurses are expected to be able to care for a range of people with...
01 May 2006
Human factors in emergency care: the need for team resource management
Working in emergency departments has never been more stressful than it is nowadays...
01 May 2006
The removal of body piercings
The art of body piercing has been practised in many cultures for thousands of years...
01 Apr 2006
Triage and transport decisions after mass casualty incidents
In the UK there are on average four major incidents a year with a range of between...
01 Apr 2006
Identifying de quervain’s tenosynovitis
Patients presenting to emergency departments and minor injury services with hand...
01 Apr 2006
An unusual knee injury
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
01 Mar 2006
Developing the A&E nurse practitioner role
Nurse practitioners (NPs) have become integral to A&E teams so that, even...
01 Mar 2006
Nurses’ knowledge of commonly used drugs: a clinical audit
As a newly qualified nurse in a busy A&E department, I made two relatively...
01 Mar 2006
Cervical rib syndrome
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
01 Feb 2006
Mobile medical teams: do A&E nurses have the appropriate experience?
In the past 28 years, there have been 108 events classed as major incidents in...
01 Feb 2006
Culture and care in the swedish ambulancce services
Nursing care in ambulance services is part of pre-hospital emergency care in Sweden...
01 Dec 2005
Terrorism: the reality of blast injuries
The bomb attacks on the London transport system on July 7 this year brought home...
01 Dec 2005
A nurse led fast track service for patients with renal colic
Acute renal colic is a common presentation in emergency departments. In fact, it is...
01 Dec 2005
Violence and aggression: how nurses perceive their own and colleagues’ risk
Researchers recognise that healthcare workers, particularly nurses, are at risk of...
01 Nov 2005