Triage: a retrospective evaluation
This paper takes a retrospective view of the development and introduction of a...
01 Sep 2000
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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...
01 Sep 2000
Emergency nurse practitioner’s documentation: development of an audit tool
The quality of clinical documentation was examined during a randomised controlled...
01 Sep 2000
Emergency nurse practitioners should manage major cases
Over a period of years, A&E departments have become busier and,...
01 Sep 2000
Climate of care and nurses’ attitudes towards AIDS in the emergency department
Despite recent advancements in treatment for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (...
01 Jul 2000
Hospital management of poisoning in victims suffering from smoke inhalation
THE ARRIVAL OF VICTIMS OF smoke inhalation in emergency departments presents those...
01 Jul 2000
Recognising the survivors of torture
The end of the 20th century bore witness to an unprecedented rise in the flow of...
01 Jul 2000
Organisation of care for older people in A&E
THE NEEDS OF OLDER PEOPLE REPRESENT an under-recognised but significant part of the...
01 Jun 2000
Developing paediatric nursing skills
THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES AN INNOVATIVE PROJECT WHICH TOOK place at Kings College...
01 Jun 2000
The health psychology of asthma
Asthma is a common and chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, associated...
01 May 2000
An investigation
Attendance in A&E has continued to rise by 2 per cent annually since 1981....
01 May 2000
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...
01 May 2000
Severe head injury in children: a case study
On August 20, 1998, at three o’clock in the afternoon, Michael Fisher (not his real...
01 Apr 2000
Why are we waiting?
Accident and emergency units are one of the key interfaces between patients and the...
01 Apr 2000
Plant poisoning
Ingestion of plant material is a relatively common cause of enquiry to poisons...
01 Mar 2000
the Emerging role of the nurse practitioner in A&E
The nurse practitioner (NP) concept differs most obviously from conventional...
01 Mar 2000
Role modelling as a teaching method
While studying for my Masters in education, I have been encouraged to examine how I...
01 Mar 2000
TELEMEDICINE — the technology and its applications
The prefix ‘tele’ means distance in Greek, and so telemedicine means delivering...
01 Mar 2000