Emergency contraception
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
23 Jul 2008
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Tension pneumothorax
Pneumothorax, and in particular tension pneumothorax, is associated with a high...
23 Jul 2008
A guide to travel health
Budget airlines, greater worldwide travel networks and faster access to formerly...
23 Jul 2008
‘Arm wrestler’s fracture’
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
01 Jun 2008
Prepatellar bursitis
To provide patients with accurate and efficient clinical diagnoses, clinicians must...
01 Jun 2008
Patient satisfaction
NHS Lanarkshire provides unscheduled care in a wide variety of settings, including...
01 Jun 2008
Cleaning wounds with saline or tap water
In an ever modernising NHS, referring to health- care methods that were used before...
01 May 2008
Learning from older people who use urgent care services
Older people are high users of emergency care services, in particular emergency...
01 May 2008
Managing pain
Patients present to emergency departments (EDs) with many different physical and...
01 May 2008
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
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
Rectal foreign bodies
Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with...
01 Mar 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
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