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.
The health psychology of asthma
Asthma is a common and chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, associated...
An investigation
Attendance in A&E has continued to rise by 2 per cent annually since 1981....
Using telemedicine for remote trauma medicine What the public thinks
We were due to start a free standing minor injuries unit (MIU) at a community...
Severe head injury in children: a case study
On August 20, 1998, at three o’clock in the afternoon, Michael Fisher (not his real...
Why are we waiting?
Accident and emergency units are one of the key interfaces between patients and the...
Plant poisoning
Ingestion of plant material is a relatively common cause of enquiry to poisons...
the Emerging role of the nurse practitioner in A&E
The nurse practitioner (NP) concept differs most obviously from conventional...
Role modelling as a teaching method
While studying for my Masters in education, I have been encouraged to examine how I...
TELEMEDICINE — the technology and its applications
The prefix ‘tele’ means distance in Greek, and so telemedicine means delivering...
the therapy of touch
The objective of task orientated touch in trauma resuscitation is to bring about a...
Antipsychotic drug overdose
Antipsychotic drugs (or neuroleptics) are a large class of drugs which can be...
Photographs and mementos THE EMERGENCY NURSE’S ROLE FOLLOWING SUDDEN INFANT DEATH
This article examines the taking of mementos when dealing with a victim of cot...
Nurse practitioner autonomy in a clinical setting
Nurse practitioners (NPs) in the United States have been providing care in hospital...
Autonomous practitioner or handmaiden?
Ruth Walsh examines the vexed issue of whether an emergency nurse practitioner is...
Training users of telemedicine
Telemedicine is a new technology that is set to expand (Rayman 1992, Lindberg 1995...
The ‘millennium bug’ its effect on the workplace and what is being done about it
The health service, although always struggling to find enough funds to cover all of...
Antifreeze poisoning
As with other specialties, poisoning follows seasonal trends. We have just seen the...
Inhalation injuries
As last month’s train crash at Paddington tragically underlined, smoke inhalation...