How smoking can hinder fracture healing
Patients commonly present to the emergency department (ED) with fractures. Since it is known...
02 Jul 2014
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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.
When emergency nurses should drop the log-rolling manoeuvre
Spinal injury can result in morbidity and mortality. Research suggests that only a small...
02 Jul 2014
Do emergency nurse practitioners provide adequate documentation?
Documentation in healthcare services is important but often lacks detail. This article...
02 Jul 2014
Role of effective documentation in emergency departments
Lord Laming’s report into the death of Victoria Climbié highlights shortcomings in the...
04 Jun 2014
Ocular injuries in people with multiple trauma
About 8% of all major trauma patients have eye injuries, which can have serious implications...
04 Jun 2014
Diagnosis and treatment of scaphoid fracture
Many patients with scaphoid fractures present at emergency departments but how they are...
04 Jun 2014
Managing patients with cervical spine injury
Common measures to establish spinal immobilisation at the scene of an accident include...
30 Apr 2014
Treatment for burn blisters: debride or leave intact?
This article presents findings from a systematic literature review of whether blisters...
30 Apr 2014
Improving communication between emergency department staff
During redevelopment of the emergency department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital,...
30 Apr 2014
Major trauma training for emergency nurses
The Midlands regional trauma network was established in March 2012 to improve and...
02 Apr 2014
Improving the management and care of people with sepsis
Many hospitals struggle to implement the full sepsis care bundle, but research suggests that...
02 Apr 2014
Nurse-to-nurse referral of patients in early pregnancy
This article describes the development, testing, evaluation and implementation of a nurse-to...
02 Apr 2014
Brain tumours in children: reducing time to diagnosis
Although the leading cause of childhood, cancer-related deaths, initial presentations of...
02 Apr 2014
Rapid sequence induction in urgent care settings
In the management of critically ill patients in emergency departments, rapid sequence...
05 Mar 2014
Congenital and acquired umbilical hernias: examination and treatment
Many adults and children with painful swellings to the abdomen present to emergency...
05 Mar 2014
Treating people with cardiac chest pain: role of paramedics
Paramedics’ abilities to carry out quick, accurate and prioritised assessments of patients...
05 Mar 2014
Management of calcium channel blocker overdose
The management of patients who have overdosed with calcium channel blockers (CCBs), which...
05 Mar 2014
Comparison of splinting and casting in the management of torus fracture
Torus, or buckle, fractures are unique to, and common in, children, but their treatment...
05 Feb 2014