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.
Farm accidents: Their causes and the development of a nurse led accident prevention...
The work that is reported in this paper is part of a nurse practitioner-led farmers...
Evaluating the development of an accredited work based learning (AWBL) scheme for A...
This paper describes a process evaluation of the development of a pilot educational...
My neck hurts: an audit of self presenting patients with neck injury
Patients who present at the triage area of the A&E department with neck...
Pesticide poisoning: rodenticides
Rodenticides are used for the control of rats and mice. There are hundreds of...
Pain assessment tools
Triage is not a new concept (Jones 1988), however, it was not until the advent of...
Gut decontamination and poisoning
Gastric decontamination has been a cornerstone in the management of overdose for...
The future of A&E with telemedicine
Sapal Tachakra and Alistair Stinson provide a wide ranging view of the benefits of...
Learning on the job accredited work based learning
Veronica Swallow describes an educational scheme which underpins the simultaneous...
Problems with eating fungi
Enquiries concerning ingestion of fungi are fairly common, particularly during the...
Triage: a retrospective evaluation
This paper takes a retrospective view of the development and introduction of a...
Why do A&E nurses fear using their advanced life support skills?
Cardiac arrest is the most acute medical emergency faced by medical, nursing and...
Emergency nurse practitioner’s documentation: development of an audit tool
The quality of clinical documentation was examined during a randomised controlled...
Emergency nurse practitioners should manage major cases
Over a period of years, A&E departments have become busier and,...
Climate of care and nurses’ attitudes towards AIDS in the emergency department
Despite recent advancements in treatment for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (...
Hospital management of poisoning in victims suffering from smoke inhalation
THE ARRIVAL OF VICTIMS OF smoke inhalation in emergency departments presents those...
Recognising the survivors of torture
The end of the 20th century bore witness to an unprecedented rise in the flow of...
Organisation of care for older people in A&E
THE NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE REPRESENT an under-recognised but significant part of the...
Developing paediatric nursing skills
THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES AN INNOVATIVE PROJECT WHICH TOOK place at Kings College...