Managing pain
Patients present to emergency departments (EDs) with many different physical and...
01 May 2008
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.
Managing chemical eye injuries
Chemical burns to the eyes are potentially devastating for the individuals...
01 Apr 2008
Safeguarding children in emergency departments
The link between long-bone fractures and intracranial bleeds in infants, and the...
01 Apr 2008
Rectal foreign bodies
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
01 Mar 2008
Knowing your ‘dydoe’ from your ‘Madonna’: an emergency nurse guide to body piercing
Body piercing is now a common practice among people of all age groups in the UK,...
01 Mar 2008
Maintaining patient dignity and offering support after miscarriage
The World Health Organization (2006) defines stillbirth, or fetal death, as death...
01 Feb 2008
Barriers to pain management in emergency departments
Research shows that pain is the primary issue for more than 70 per cent of patients...
01 Feb 2008
Bartholin’s abscesses and cysts
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
01 Feb 2008
Nurse led clinical procedures for children
Almost all emergency nurses have experienced the pressures of meeting the four-hour...
01 Feb 2008
Practice makes perfect - ‘Saturday night palsy’
A 40-year-old, right-handed male carpenter recently presented to the author’s...
01 Dec 2007
Emergency care interventions that can affect pain relief
The reason for attending emergency departments (EDs) given by most patients with...
01 Dec 2007
Improving emergency care for patients who self harm
The most radical reforms seen in the NHS since its formation, in 1948, have been...
01 Dec 2007
High-pressure injection injuries
High-pressure injection injuries are caused by the accidental injection of fluid...
01 Nov 2007
The properties of aminophylline
More than five million people in the UK have asthma, one in ten of them being...
01 Nov 2007
Diagnosing gout
This reflective article is concerned with the management of gout in emergency care...
01 Sep 2007