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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.
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...
Pain assessment at nurse triage: a literature review
Research suggests that most patients who attend emergency departments (EDs)...
Delivering a new intravenous therapy service
Following recent reforms in emergency care, there has been a rapid expansion of...
The ‘parental kiss’
Toddlers and other children frequently attend emergency care settings with nasal...
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...
Human factors in emergency care: the need for team resource management
Working in emergency departments has never been more stressful than it is nowadays...
The removal of body piercings
The art of body piercing has been practised in many cultures for thousands of years...
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...
Identifying de quervain’s tenosynovitis
Patients presenting to emergency departments and minor injury services with hand...
An unusual knee injury
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
Developing the A&E nurse practitioner role
Nurse practitioners (NPs) have become integral to A&E teams so that, even...
Nurses’ knowledge of commonly used drugs: a clinical audit
As a newly qualified nurse in a busy A&E department, I made two relatively...
Cervical rib syndrome
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
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...
Culture and care in the swedish ambulancce services
Nursing care in ambulance services is part of pre-hospital emergency care in Sweden...