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.

Maximising nurse-patient communication in the emergency department

How to remove or reduce barriers to have effective conversations with patients and colleagues

Frailty assessment in older patients in the emergency department

Screening for frailty can ensure appropriate clinical decisions are made

Bowing fractures of the forearm in children: pathophysiology, diagnosis and management

Such fractures are easily missed due to presentation ambiguities and lack of awareness among...

Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in emergency nurses: a mixed-methods...

Active prevention of compassion fatigue would help avoid burnout and aid staff retention

Training nurses to triage: a scoping review

Lectures, simulations and workshops appear effective but a gold standard is needed to...

Health promotion in emergency care settings: investigating staff views and experiences

Staff and patients would benefit from a more structured approach to health promotion

Risk assessment and thromboprophylaxis in adult patients with lower-limb immobilisation

Fictional study of a patient with an ankle fracture to explore guidance on risk assessment

Assessment and management of pelvic fractures from high-energy trauma in adults

Enhance your knowledge of risks associated with pelvic fractures caused by high-energy trauma

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

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