Acute poisoning: exposure to diy products
Home improvement is an increasingly popular pastime and there is a wide range of...
01 Dec 2002
Clinical
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Human resource management
This article describes how an A&E department has responded to increasing...
01 Dec 2002
Care plans for familiar faces
As a mental health development nurse working at Ipswich Hospital’s A&E...
01 Nov 2002
Overdose of insulin and other diabetic medication
NICOLA BATES highlights the dangers associated with the management of diabetes
01 Nov 2002
Injury management in the community
Thousands of people in the UK sustain injuries every day. The lay public can manage...
01 Nov 2002
Biphasic defibrillation
Early defibrillation is accepted as essential to revert potential life threatening...
01 Nov 2002
Paediatric pain assessment
The assessment of pain in children is a subject that has been widely discussed, and...
01 Oct 2002
Substances of low toxicity by ingestion
Each year, the London Centre of the National Poisons Information Service receives...
01 Oct 2002
Vicarious traumatisation
Emergency departments present multiple composite realities providing emergency...
01 Oct 2002
Taking part in the MRC crash trial
Emergency departments are notoriously busy clinical areas with increasing pressure...
01 Oct 2002
Diagnosing radiological abnormalities
SAPAL TACHAKRA addresses the training and expertise of emergency nurse...
01 Sep 2002
Paracetamol overdose
Paracetamol is an analgesic and antipyretic agent that became available in the UK...
01 Sep 2002
What to do when an adolescent self harms
Adolescence is a time of great change, physically, psychologically and socially (...
01 Sep 2002
Using an evidence-based approach to thrombolysis
Forging links between theory and practice in a bid to affirm evidenced based...
01 Sep 2002
Aspirin overdose
After more than a century, aspirin remains one of the most popular drugs in the...
01 Jul 2002
Recognising adrenal insufficiency
The cortices of the adrenal glands produce Cortisol and insufficient circulating...
01 Jul 2002
Children abused through prostitution
Children abused through prostitution is a poorly understood and under researched...
01 Jul 2002
Developing a nursing observation chart
For some time the A&E department at Ipswich had been using either a general...
01 Jun 2002